Chapter 1,496 What we are imprisoned and what we want to break
Tom's question can be said to be quite sharp.
After all, it is about religious issues. You must know that this is the United States. If Li Yi nods, it will cause a lot of trouble.
After all, being labeled as anti-religious is definitely not a good thing for the movie.
However, this question was originally on the question outline. Li Yi had read it before and he agreed, so Tom would ask it.
After all, Li Yi came here to promote the show, and he was not a small character, so it was naturally impossible for Tom to treat him like those little stars.
In fact, although this question is sharp, it is not that difficult to answer.
The point is, many people on the Internet really think that this is what the movie expresses.
It will still have a certain impact to some extent. Although Li Yi can completely ignore the attitude of the religious people in CARE, he cannot stand up to the Americans. No, it should be said that Europe and the United States are full of believers.
"Do many people think so?" Li Yi asked instead without answering.
"Of course! We can ask the audience." Tom shrugged.
"Anyone who interprets this in the same way can raise his hand!" Tom turned to the audience in the studio and said.
The next moment, long arms are like a forest!
At least half of the people raised their hands. Of course, there were some who had sufficient numbers, but it can also be seen in itself.
Li Yi smiled and said: "Actually, don't you think this is also a manifestation of the "institutionalized" confinement of people's thoughts?"
Neither Tom nor the audience expected Li Yi's answer to be this.
"What do you mean?" Tom was a little surprised.
"I believe that many of us have been exposed to some education or ideas that believe that religious beliefs are superstitions, saying that we must believe in science and only by breaking them can we progress. Therefore, this kind of thinking has made many of us see that
Every scene, everyone subconsciously thinks that it is to break free from the shackles of faith." Li Yi said with a smile.
After his words fell, many people were a little stunned. In fact, with the rapid development of science and technology, even though Europe and the United States are large areas of religious belief, more and more people, young people, have begun to gradually abandon their faith, thinking that it is
It's a sign of ignorance and not cool at all.
Because there are many "rules" in religious beliefs!
For example, before eating, devout believers often pray first, but today, how many young people, no, even if they are not young people, will obey it as always?
the answer is negative!
"OH, MY GOD! No wonder Andy's hammer happened to be placed in the chapter "Exodus" in the Bible." Tom said as if he suddenly understood.
The same is true for the audience below. After all, this has been mentioned in many film reviews, so everyone is familiar with it.
As Li Yi said, if you can get out of the "institutionalization" of this kind of thinking and jump out of this ideological wall, then you won't think about this detail as before.
"So do you understand? Is anyone willing to share their experience?" Tom asked, looking at the audience below.
Americans still like to appear in the camera, and they also like to express themselves.
So when Tom finished speaking, many people raised their hands.
Tom ordered a young man wearing glasses who looked more polite.
"Hi, what's your name?" Tom asked.
"Jack Townsend!"
"Hello Jack! Come on, tell me what you think." Tom encouraged.
"Yeah! I think Andy worked hard to awaken people's hearts of redemption in Shawshank prison, and later revealed Red's redemption, just like Moses led the Jews out of slavery in Egypt thousands of years ago and found the land of freedom in Canaan; imprisonment
The thick stone wall that destroyed Andy is like the vast Red Sea that stretched in front of Moses; the miracle of Andy cutting through the stone wall is like the miracle of Moses opening the way for the Red Sea.
The difference is that the people Andy inspired are no longer the people Moses inspired!
I think that people today have been deeply trapped in the "institutionalization" of the material world. Their ideas and thoughts are getting farther and farther away from God, becoming more and more materialistic, and increasingly pitting spirit against matter, making it difficult to understand the soul.
Sublimation and redemption.
So in the movie, although the key to salvation lies in faith, it is embodied in a hammer that exists in material form. I wonder if one of its purposes is to take care of the "institutionalization" of people's thoughts?
Perhaps one night, Andy was sitting in his cell reading the Bible. When he read the chapter "Exodus", he was inspired by Moses' experience and realized that he was under similar slavery.
So, he had an idea to jump out of prison and go find his own land of Canaan. It was this idea that later made him buy a small hammer and hid it in the Book of Exodus.
Faith not only gave Andy hope, persistence, and courage, but also gave him merciful shelter. It was the Bible that accommodated the little hammer that prevented Andy's escape plan from being blocked by the prison guards who came to check the ward at any time.
Discover.
Matter and spirit are not contradictory, but unified with each other. Just as the Bible shelters Andy and Little Hammer, Andy created the modern version of "Exodus" through the practice of Little Hammer.
Do you still remember? At the end of the movie, Andy left the words in the Bible for Warden Norton: You are right, the way to salvation lies in it!
My initial understanding was that the word "salvation" refers to the small hammer inside, but now I think this is just the surface.
The real way of salvation should refer to the fact that the salvation of the soul is not only in writing, but also requires people to practice it physically. God reveals the direction to people so that people will not be lost in the darkness, but whether people can finally be saved and freed,
You still need to practice it on your own.
Warden Norton seems to be very pious, but he only has faith on the surface and is familiar with the Bible. In fact, what he realizes in his faith is that he wants others to follow him, and he demands others with his faith, but he
He has never really made demands on himself. He dare not use the Bible or faith to safeguard his power and interests in the world.
And Andy realized that he should look at himself and ask for himself with faith.
This is also the key difference in belief between Andy and the Warden. It is this difference that allows Andy to gain salvation and the Warden to destruction.
Andy also violated the principle of self-examination. After he learned the truth about his wife's murder, he impulsively went to the warden to save himself, which made the warden murderous, and finally indirectly led to the murder of his fellow inmates.
There is a story about a young man who went to a temple to worship a god and solve a problem. He found a person next to him who looked very much like a statue of the god, so he asked the person's identity. The person replied that she was the god. The young man was very dissatisfied.
Jie asked: If you are a god, why do you still worship yourself? The man replied: It is better to seek help from others than to ask for yourself. It turns out that this is God enlightening young people.
In fact, belief in God does not mean that everything will be fine. The key lies in how to improve yourself. In everything, you must look at yourself, instead of asking others, ask God. The more you ask others and ask God, the more likely it is to be counterproductive, and not only will you not be able to obtain salvation
, may also be destroyed, which is also a misunderstanding that many people have about faith.
Faith is a beacon that dispels darkness and points people in the direction, but the real path still needs to be practiced by oneself.
Hope without the support of faith is fragile and cannot withstand the test of darkness. In the movie, the fat prisoner who went to prison with Andy had a glimmer of hope, but he could not face the darkness of the cell. He thought that the prison guards could be lenient.
He cried and begged the prison guards, and was finally beaten to death, leading to destruction. Perhaps this scene had happened many times, so Red and other people in the prison believed that hope is dangerous.
The same is true for many people in today's society. They have no faith, go from materialism to denying the meaning of spiritual morality, go from atheism to ruthlessness, go from materialism to worshiping things, from worshiping things to worshiping money and power, and indulge in all kinds of pleasures.
Falling down step by step.
The three sisters in the movie are such representatives.
Such people may temporarily become rich, famous, and promoted when the environment is relaxed; but once they are in a harsh environment, they are easily unable to withstand the wind and rain like a fat prisoner, and they are easy to ask for this and that, and are finally trapped by darkness.
Devouring. This is a common problem of this era. It seems that society is progressing in material development, but in fact it is degenerating and destroying. This is also the sad thing about this era.
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Tom was dumbfounded, Li Yi was dumbfounded, and the audience was also dumbfounded.
No one expected that this Jack Townsend would express his own opinions directly and eloquently after he went up. It can even be said that these are enough to write a film review.
"Bah, bang, bang!" Despite this, everyone still gave him warm applause.
However, Tom still asked in surprise: "So, Jack, what do you do?"
Li Yi also had a guess in his mind, maybe this is a film critic?
But the next moment, both Li Yi and Tom were dumbfounded again.
"I'm a pastor!" said Jack Townsend.
Li Yi and Tom were stunned again.
However, Tom was a little better, but Li Yi secretly sighed in his heart, what the hell, no wonder he is so familiar with the content of the Bible, and the co-author is a professional.
Soon, a second live audience was invited to come up.
"I'm Nick!"
"So, you must not be a priest or a pastor, right?" Tom couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
"No, I'm not!" the young man named Nick said with a grin.
"So what do you do?" Tom asked again. It was Jack Townsend who had confused him too!
"I'm a student!" Nick said with a smile.
"OK, so what do you think of this movie? Come on, let's talk about it!" Tom said with a look of relief.
"What I want to talk about is the "Way of Salvation"!
I think the real admirable thing about "The Shawshank Redemption" is that he not only redeemed himself, but also redeemed others."
Everyone didn't think Nick's words were very new, but they still listened patiently.
"In the movie, Andy only needs a small hammer to carve out his own way to salvation, because he has reached a higher level and is not obsessed with prison in his soul. But he wants to redeem most people.
Without reaching that level, they have no hope for redemption, do not believe in the outside world, and are terrified of the outside world. They are obsessed with the prison of Shawshank and are completely "institutionalized" by the prison.
It is very difficult to redeem these people who have no hope for redemption, because it requires changing people's deep-rooted thoughts, letting people get out of the "institutionalization" of thought, and out of the stone wall of thought. But Andy chose such a difficult road
, through his own actions, he brought hope to the people in Shawshank Prison to escape from Shawshank Prison forever.
He risked being pushed off the roof by prison guards and exchanged baskets of beer for the inmates, allowing them to feel at ease for a moment.
He did not hesitate to be imprisoned for a week, but also broadcast music to the entire prison to inspire hope in people's hearts. He persisted in writing letters for six years, and finally applied for funding support for the prison to expand the library, allowing the prisoners to understand and yearn for the outside world.
In order to prevent criminals from falling into prison, he teaches people how to read and write, helps people obtain high school diplomas, and improves their self-cultivation.
Everything he did was not utilitarian, not seeking fame, and regardless of his own efforts. If Andy hadn't had faith that transcended the human material world, how could he have selflessly helped people with sinful karma like Jesus?
What about people? As it is said in the movie: The strong save themselves, the saints save others.
Of course, Andy's most valuable thing is his persistence in faith. Without persistence in faith, Andy would not have the perseverance to persevere. He would have been drowned in the sins of prison and succumbed to the suffocating darkness.
After all, the bullying from the perverted "three sisters" alone was enough to make him collapse.
Many people don't understand one thing - Andy often fights with the "three sisters" and is beaten all over his body with injuries. But he never responds to who is beating him, nor does he care about other people's strange eyes, nor does he complain about others.
Not lending a helping hand.
Why is this happening? It is difficult for people without faith to understand. In fact, this is the embodiment of Andy's persistence in faith - he has been looking at himself, instead of blaming others, and regards this perseverance to suffering as
It was to atone for his sins. It was also because of his persistence in his faith that he was able to endure suffering without being moved by it.
When a person has a firm belief that transcends the human world, his ideas can be transcended. Even if he is in the prison of the human world, he can still walk around leisurely; even if he is bullied and attacked by others, he can still be calm and composed; as shown in the movie
It is said that he is wearing an invisibility cloak; to use a popular word nowadays, he has a reality-distorting power, and Andy is exactly such a person.
If one could truly be as firm as Andy in his belief in transcending the human world, people would not be trapped by fame and fortune, and would naturally be able to look down upon the pain and suffering in the human world as if they were just dust.
Many things in our world may seem accidental, but in fact they are inevitable and are God’s deliberate arrangements.
Just like Rhett felt the freedom of the Creator when he was resting on the roof, if we watch this movie with our heart, maybe you can also feel the existence of hope that transcends our world, illuminate the depths of our hearts, and gain
