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Chapter 1494 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 agreed to it, 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.

This question, although sharp, 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 can't stand it in the United States. 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 a lot of them, but it could 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 makes 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 in Europe and the United States, which are large areas of religious belief, more and more people, young people, began to gradually abandon their faith, thinking that it was 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 with a look of sudden realization.

The same goes 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 kind of 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.

Old and American people 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 gentle-looking young man wearing glasses.

"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 pitting spirit and matter against each other more and more, 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 also 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 book of 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 thought that later led him to buy a small hammer and hide it in "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, and Andy creates the modern version of "Exodus" through the practice of Little Hammer.

do you 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 feel that this is just the surface.

The real way of salvation should mean that the salvation of the soul is not only in writing, but also requires people to practice it. God reveals the direction to people so that they will not get lost in the darkness, but whether people can finally be saved and liberated still requires their own continuous practice.

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 realized in his faith is that he wants others to follow him. What he demands with faith is others, but he never really demands himself. He did not dare to use the Bible and 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 the beliefs of Andy and the Warden. It was this difference that allowed Andy to gain redemption and led the Warden to destruction. Andy also violated the principle of examining himself. 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 gods and solve his problems. He found a person next to him who looked very much like a statue of the god, so he asked the person who he was. The man replied that she was this god. The young man asked in confusion: You are a god, why do you still worship yourself? The man replied: It is better to ask for yourself than to ask for others. It turns out that this is God enlightening the young people.

In fact, belief in God does not mean that everything will be fine. The key lies in how you improve yourself. You should look at yourself in everything, instead of asking others or God. The more you pray to others and God, the more likely it is to backfire. Not only will you not be able to get salvation, but you may also get destroyed. This is also a misunderstanding that many people have about faith.

Faith is a beacon that dispels darkness and points the way, 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, so he cried and begged the prison guards, and was beaten to death in the end, leading to destruction. . Perhaps this scene has happened many times, so Red and other people in prison believe that hope is dangerous.

This is also 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, indulge in all kinds of pleasures, and fall 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 prone to begging for this and that, and are finally succumbed to darkness. Devour. This is a common problem of this era. It seems that society is progressing in material development, but it is actually declining 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 directly express his own opinions after going 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 astonishment: "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, this is so special, 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 priest, right?" Tom couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

"No, I'm not!" The young man named Nick grinned.

"So what do you do?" Tom asked again. It was Jack Townsend who had confused him too!

"I'm a student!" Nick smiled.

"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 reason for "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 fascinated by 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 and letting people get out of the "institutionalization" of their thoughts and get out of the stone walls of their thoughts. But Andy chose such a difficult path. 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 in exchange for a few baskets of beer for the inmates, allowing them to feel at ease for a moment.

Even though he was imprisoned for a week, he 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 prisoners to understand and yearn for the outside world. In order to prevent criminals from falling into prison, he taught them how to read and write, helped them obtain high school diplomas, and improved their personal accomplishments.

Everything he did was not utilitarian, did not seek fame, and did not consider his own efforts. If Andy didn't have faith that transcended the human material world, how could he selflessly help people full of sin like Jesus? As it is said in the movie: The strong save themselves, the saint saves 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. 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 with injuries. But he never responded to who was hitting him, nor did he care about the strange looks from others, nor did he complain about why others didn't lend a helping hand.

Why is this so? 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 in suffering as atonement for himself. 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 A revelation of soul redemption. "

(End of this chapter)