miracle

Kiarra 2021-12-23 08:01:43

In the whole film, only the song that keeps ringing in the carriage is normal. Persistent priests, violent neo-Nazis, former tennis masters who lost their souls to alcohol, Palestinian terrorists who are obsessed with robbing transnational gas stations, social workers who are afraid of teratogenic births because of one-night stands, and even those who don’t think so. Like the doctor’s doctor and former concentration camp servants, haha, there are also neo-Nazis who appear almost as hapless clowns. A peculiar story is derived from whether God or the devil is testing whether people can make an apple pie.

The steadfastness of faith and the ubiquity of miracles are repeated in this film with an almost self-denying determination, because the priest who represents the gods has been constantly attacked since the film began to meet the neo-Nazi Adam. Exposing his inner beliefs—faith is so vulnerable until the priest’s own deformed child appears and the priest’s tragic life experience is revealed, which seems to mean that belief is really vulnerable in the face of the truth. The film’s images also hint at this everywhere: in front of the apple tree that is full of pests, the scarecrow that appears as the blessing of the gods seems so helpless and boring, until the storm is blown out of the original shape-a cross as a skeleton. ——This symbolic cross, the apple tree around and the stormy rain as the background, the extreme mockery of religion (Christianity) makes everyone think this film is another modern "Decameron".

The film went to the end like this. When the priest miraculously wrapped his head and sat in the sunshine in front of the hospital, everything was light and windy, and the clouds were light and light-God just proved his existence once again.

At the end of the film, with the two newly received "mobs" (another two abnormal people), the moving song sounded again in the car of the priest and Adam. When you start to hum lightly, you will feel that the priest and Adam are normal people-this is the power of God. Of course, the God at this time is the screenwriter and director Anders Thomas Jensen (Anders Thomas Jensen). ), because he makes a pair of abnormal people who must be regarded as weird in the society become kind and not so weird in the eyes of the viewer. Of course, all of this, the song that has always existed like sunshine from beginning to end, also contributed the most. It is the cover of "How deep is your love" by BEEGEES by TAKE THAT.

PS: Danish-style cold humor is very interesting. It makes people understand that European religious themes are not all Bergman's cold-hearted, even Danes who are also in the cold Scandinavian cultural circle can shoot. Such a fun movie. Look at the expression of the Nazi Adam when the Palestinian hero takes out a pistol and shoots birds, haha.

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Extended Reading
  • Delaney 2021-12-23 08:01:43

    I don't understand the Bible at all, and I can't see the metaphors and all kinds of things. But you can see Danish humor and the power of faith. To force Uncle Ivan to be considered as having experienced all the unsatisfactory things in life, his mother died, the wretched old sister died, his wife committed suicide, and his son had cerebral palsy. He also relied on faith or paranoid belief to save the "bad guys". Like Adam, sometimes trying to awaken the authorities from the perspective of the onlooker, but in the end finds that it is himself who is fascinated.

  • Pearl 2022-04-22 07:01:39

    Our life cannot be without flowers. Singing will make you thirsty and cannot live without fruit.

Adam's Apples quotes

  • Ivan: Evil has many faces and it can be difficult to tell them apart and choose sides. Especially these days where so many things are said in this and that town. Everything has so many nuances. Also we humans. If the game of chess had undergone the same development as humans the queen would be in front, the rooks would be crooked, and the pawn would be the main piece. We no longer know who we are and this rootlessness...

  • Ivan: Poul Baekel Hermann, known to friend and foe as Poul Nordkap, lived a long and full life. In his life Poul learned that to know God you must dance with the Devil. If any Poul Nordkap surely did that. Poul learned that it's futile to fight good because despite all the cruelty, screaming and tears he had caused in his youth he realised in the end that this was just a mere moment. The ocean heaved but it was a wasted effort. The world continued and good prevailed as always. That's why Poul can return to God with peace of mind. Adam and I were by his side when he passed quietly away. His last words were: 'I'm not afraid. I'm ready.'