Chapter 464: A Thought
At that time, he funded the juvenile detention center in the name of the church, and even adopted four of the teenagers who were guilty of killing their fathers.
Following this clue, the protagonist suddenly realized: the four juvenile delinquents adopted by Kim Ji-seok correspond to the four heavenly kings who are worshipped!
In Buddhist legends, the Four Heavenly Kings were originally evil ghosts, but after seeing the Buddha, they took refuge in Buddhism and became the Four Heavenly Kings who swept away demons.
Jin Jishi fashioned himself into a god like the Buddha.
And these four teenagers who had committed crimes were trained by him to become the Four Heavenly Kings and used them to sweep away the demons and sins in his eyes.
found that in Jin Jishi's scriptures, the snake is a metaphor for evil demons, who is the snake in his eyes?
Finally, the criminal records of the four juvenile offenders after they were released from prison were verified, and the victims of the case were all from girls born in 99 in Kim Ji-seok's hometown!
It turned out that the snake was referring to these girls.
The wild deer park that does good deeds on the surface is killing people and sacrificing people behind the scenes!
And the next target is the twin sisters......
The plot and details are full of unknown, confused, and unsolvable anxieties, and the characters in the film are like walking dead, becoming tools for being used.
The director deliberately arranged animal figures such as cows, sheep, deer, and dogs in many scenes, and animals were originally symbols of nature, but they represented unexplained supernatural forces in witchcraft worship, and there are legends about animals in religion.
For example, the cattle in the local cattle farm were dying due to the epidemic, and the farmers not only stopped the epidemic prevention personnel, but tried to defuse the epidemic with the popular witchcraft methods of the people, and the results can be imagined.
Lay the general environment inside the story: they don't believe in science, they don't believe in the government, they don't even believe in themselves.
When the villain learns that the prophesied newborn baby girl in his hometown will have 81 demon armies that threaten his eternal life, he also ruthlessly plots it.
Secretly sent four juvenile offenders to kill people, and committed repeated crimes by killing a hundred by mistake without missing one.
This serial murder case, which is about eternal life, is easily reminiscent of the chilling cult sacrifice conspiracy theory during the sinking of the Sewol.
Ding Cheng couldn't understand such strange thinking. It's like the protagonist, as the discoverer of the conspiracy, does not show a heroic posture, but is helpless and helpless like a child......
Looking at the falling snow outside the window, he muttered: We are struggling like ants at the bottom, and what the hell is God doing?
All the characters seem to have faith, but in fact, they have long lost everything, desperately entrusting their fate to nothingness!
The four boys bear their own tragic lives,
Women of faith also experience tragic lives,
Twin sisters are destined to live a dark life because they are different from others.
I have to say that the director is very clever and presents ghosts and demons in a narrative that is both true and false. When the audience feels that all this is the work of people's hearts, there will immediately be an inexplicable supernatural phenomenon that is disorienting.
When you think that the truth is finally revealed, the story presents a creepy and magical plot, which is realistically terrifying!
This work flows with deep wisdom and awareness similar to the Tao Te Ching, which provides insight into the deep-seated laws of heaven, earth, and man, and is also full of Buddhist and Christian teachings, practices, and historical knowledge.
I have to say that the film reflects a part of the social phenomenon and social subconscious, and can vaguely reflect some common cultural psychology and social psychology.
In "Suo Po He" and "The Cry", without exception, the source of the demon is pointed to the island country. In "The Cry", the old man who lives alone in the mountains reveals the demon's minions at the last moment.
And in "Su Po He", a plot worth playing appears several times, that is, the leader of the Oriental Sect, Jin Di Sha, went to the island country to study the Pope, and became the prelude to Jin Di Shak's transformation from God to Devil.
The most famous in the traditional folk culture of the island country is the ghost culture, which has the legend of a hundred ghosts walking at night, and claims to have eight million ghosts and gods. The biggest difference between ghosts and Buddhas is that they are selfish desires and attachments, while ghosts are born from strong desires.
The difference between a single thought creates an abyss-like difference between a Buddha and a ghost. People's hearts and minds are changing, and gods and demons are constantly turning around in a thought, which is the director's basic theological theory and philosophical speculation.
But Suo Po He put forward a further theory, that is, good and evil are the same, and gods and demons coexist. This life is the cause of the other, and this is the death of the other. There were earthworms on the ground, so there were eagles in the sky that ate earthworms.
Where power rises, there is energy to counterbalance it. Balance is the only way to coexist with all things - this is the so-called Tao in the Tao Te Ching, which is the natural law of the operation of heaven and earth, and it is also a superb philosophical wisdom.
When the demon appears, the Buddha is born. The energies of good and evil are mutually counterbalanced. In the cognitive philosophy of Buddhism, the world is all fleeting, empty and illusory, and eternity does not exist.
"The Cry", "Suo Po He" and "Slander the Law" are a mixture of many Chinese and Western belief systems, including shamanism, witchcraft, folk ghost and god beliefs, Buddhism, Christianity and other supernatural phenomena.
This seemingly chaotic and chaotic blending and symbiosis of religion actually represents the current state of religion in Korea, and also reflects the historical and cultural origins of South Korea, a country that has been influenced and nurtured by both Chinese and Western cultures.
Psychologically, Koreans not only show dependence on and obsession with the collective and the system, but also emphasize individual independence, believing that only independence can preserve oneself.
This kind of collective confrontation between individual consciousness and chaotic blind obedience is reflected in the woman in white who repeatedly points out that the island people are devils in "The Cry", from the lonely Zhong Xiu in "Burning", and from the wide-eyed king who has been trying to identify evil ghosts in "Suo Po He".
When the whole collective is mired in superstition and dreamlike chaos, these protagonists instead embody a stronger sense of self, even if this awakening makes them more lonely and miserable, and they stagger to follow their instincts, eventually digging out the truth and preserving themselves.
The two doctors of the elite class in "Double Eyes" are loyal servants loyal to the girl's immortal, including the policeman Huang Huotu, who became a key move for the girl to become an immortal without his own knowledge.
Faith and trust are constantly subverted, worship and superstition are constantly disillusioned, and good and evil are intertwined, and the process is full of confusion, doubt, scrutiny, and speculation.
Just like the Zheng Arhats in "Suo Po He", they were nothing more than lured by the sect leader with a set of high-sounding theories and became the sect leader's killing tools. Demons are just people who are smarter and more selfish than humans. By driving others to grow immortal flesh, and by the sacrifices of others, we are almost close to eternity.
The demon is not omnipotent, if he is weak. Therefore, tool men and puppets are an important way for evil spirits to exert their magic power, and by manipulating and controlling these powerful people, evil ghosts are full of power.
This is a very interesting point: the powerful are manipulated by the good ones, the strong are controlled by the soft, and the people are driven by demons. It is the greed, paranoia, darkness, stupidity, and fear that the demons use in the minds of the tool people to grow stronger.
The development of a belief system that seems to be righteous and upholds the Dharma, which seems to be selfless but actually conceals ulterior motives and selfish desires, is only a set of theoretical tricks to trick believers into hunting maidens everywhere in order to maintain their immortality.
Even the audience can't help but be struck by this sophisticated and reverent belief system, which is full of seduction and skillfully exploits people's sense of loyalty, justice, and purpose.
In real life, how many people use others to achieve their own goals?
Many talented and amazing people have been manipulated by others all their lives and ended up tragically.