Hard to believe this is a 1971 movie, Wall Crack recommends. If human nature is inherently evil, then all the transformations in the name of false gods are also evil.
Alex, the male protagonist of the film, has undergone two stages of "healing". The first stage is to transform "evil" into "non-evil", which is achieved through imprisonment and personality transformation, and then return to freedom to reduce the burden of prison.
But when announcing the release, the priest held a different opinion: no matter for good or evil, if the freedom of choice is lost, it is not true redemption. And the transition to good or evil is always a choice from the soul.
I noticed that the priest's hand remained on Alex's left shoulder, and he didn't want to take it off for a long time. This shot is the soul of the whole work.
In the second stage, Alex, who has regained his freedom, becomes a political tool. At this time, the direction of "healing" is exactly the opposite, from "non-evil" to "evil".
That is to say, Alex, who is full of evil, has undergone transformation and treatment, suffered various persecutions and revenge, but has never done good. Couldn't be more ironic.
If you still have a little fantasies about human nature and think that it can be transformed, then please watch this film. It was a forward-looking experimental film, art film and film ideology at the time, and half a century later, it is still impossible for us to make it, and it is not allowed to make it.
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