In August 2018, Master Xuecheng was exposed to a scandal.
In January 2019, Dabao Washu wang was exposed to a scandal.
There is also the living Buddha Bema Chibe Rinpoche, Tashi Langa Living Buddha...
At the beginning of 2021, the whole network exposed a fake living Buddha - Wang Xingfu, who accumulated nearly 200 million yuan in 10 years and molested several female disciples.
This string of data stunned me and at the same time made me think of several question marks: Is faith to be used to talk about it, or is it to be practiced? Is it the Buddha or the Devil that you worship as "supreme"?
At the same time, I thought of a movie to answer this question mark, and this movie is: The Life of David Gore.
Movie poster for The Life of David Gore
Douban 8.6, nominated for the Golden Bear Award at the 53rd Berlin Film Festival, and won the "American Film Association Human Rights Award" won by a rare film, all of which illustrate the extraordinary characteristics of this film, but the most interesting thing is:
Without seeing the last shot, this movie is likely to be a good thriller suspense film in your eyes.
And when you see the last shot, the whole movie will be like the second half of David Gore's life, a big reversal, from a "thriller suspense film" to a "faith inspirational film", and at this time, maybe you will also get your "freedom key" like the heroine.
This is what you see as The Life of David Gore.
/ When Faith Comes to "Talk" /
The first half of David Gore's life was undoubtedly bright and colorful:
He is a talented man at Harvard University, the first in both materials, after graduation soared all the way to the university of Austin philosophy professor and director, can be described as a young age of fame; when he lectures, the mouth is hanging, humorous and funny, even the boring lacan philosophy, he can let students understand its core in seconds, become the "charming professor" in the eyes of many students.
David Gore (Kevin Spacey)
The most crucial thing is that the "charismatic professor" has a firm belief in advocating for human rights and resisting the death penalty.
This belief made him an excellent leader of the movement against the death penalty, a heroic and benevolent "guardian of death row prisoners", and the only guest with enough authority, status, popularity and intelligence to have a live debate with the governor of Texas.
So, there was such a live televised debate match:
Square: U.S. governor, politician, death penalty advocate.
Opposing: Professor of philosophy, leader of civil movements, guardian of death row inmates.
Viewers: TV viewers in movies and us who watch movies outside movies.
Who wins?
In the first half, David Gore was still gushing, hanging in the river, and used Hitler's famous words to make a trap, pit the old governor into it, quickly win the lead, and make the governor embarrassed;
In the second half, at the climax of the two-man war of words, the governor suddenly stopped, pulled out a piece of paper and a pen, and then asked David Gore a question:
"Well, you say, say a Texas death row inmate who can prove your innocence, as long as you can name one, now I will abolish the death penalty system immediately."
The "Professor of Charm" and the "Guardian of Death Row" were dumbfounded, and he stared at the proud governor, stunned and speechless.
He loses, because he can talk about "truth" without coming up with a "reality."
The movie is of course a "story", but this "story" satirizes the "reality" of how many of us:
A: How can you not believe in Buddhism? If you don't believe it, you are going to fall into "karma", let me tell you about "cause and effect", this is a university question...
B: So have you become a Buddha?
A:......
A: How can you not be a vegetarian? I have been a vegetarian now, vegetarian has many benefits, people who eat meat are not clean, do not have a benevolent heart, and do not know how to protect Mother Earth...
B: So you've been clean all your life and never got sick?
A: My master is very powerful, he has the "Heavenly Eye Pass", he can bless you, everything I do depends on the blessing of master...
B: So what's the use of yourself?
Such rhetorical questions may seem "unreasonable", but it is precisely such rhetorical questions that often force the "speaker" into a "reality":
Is faith meant to be "said" or "practiced"?
The answer seems to be 100% certain to be the latter, and the truth is often:
The vast majority of us are just "talking" about faith and self-righteously believing that this is "practicing" faith.
We are all lobbyists, like David Gore at this time.
But when faith is just "talking", is it still "faith"?
/ When Faith Takes "Doubt" /
The turning point in David Gore's life was when he was called a "QJ offender."
QJ's object: his own schoolgirl Pauline;
David Gore's student Pauling (Lorna Matera)
QJ's motivation: to feud with his wife and to prey on beautiful female students who have just dropped out of school.
QJ's evidence: accusations against schoolgirls, scratches on the body, semen in the lower body.
But what are the facts? The director lets us see from God's perspective:
Object of Slander: Teacher David Gore;
Motives for slander: Pauline begs her teacher to pass her, and bluntly says that she is "willing to do anything for the score", but is severely and ironically rejected by David Gore, determined to retaliate after reluctantly dropping out of school;
Slanderous facts: At the cocktail party, David Gore was seduced, took the initiative to have a relationship, and then withdrew the complaint after the accusation.
Is it QJ, or is it slandered?
The facts speak for themselves, not to mention that the female students later took the initiative to withdraw their lawsuits.
But the questions are:
People don't need "facts" to judge whether a person is "guilty", people want "gossip".
So, because of this "slander", the famous "Harvard talent", "charming professor", "death row keeper" lost his career, lost his family, lost his son, lost his relief, and even lost the most basic trust.
The most intuitive is this david gore conversation with the university president:
David Gore: Please give me a post, you know how great my class is.
Principal: Now everyone knows you're a QJ criminal.
David Gore: She has clearly dropped the case.
Principal: Withdraw the lawsuit? Public opinion will not think that you did not do that, but only that your lawyer is more powerful.
David Gore: Please, I can't see my son without a job.
Principal: I hired you, what should I do? The whole school would say I hired a QJ criminal.
Here's the reality:
Public opinion sentences you to "crime", do not need "facts", but look at the click rate, newsworthiness, and dissemination of high or low;
What kind of "person" you are, do not need "facts", but depend on your value, your power, your wealth is still there.
In such a reality:
The wife who originally cheated first: sued him, sold the house, took away his favorite son...
Male colleague and former leader of the movement against the death penalty: refused to let him participate in the movement again, denouncing him as a stain, an alcoholic, and a devastating blow to the reputation of the organization;
Former female colleague: When I saw him, I immediately closed the car window, stepped on the gas door and walked away...
Just because of a "slanderous, removed accusation", he went from "Charm Professor" and "Death Row Keeper" to "Drunkard", "QJ Prisoner", "Stain", "Deserved Dead Ghost".
However, it was in this "reversed life" that David Gore first deeply understood the meaning of two words - "death row prisoner":
When he loses everything he originally cared about, he "dies";
When even people who knew the facts refused to give him a chance to survive, he was "imprisoned".
Why become a "death row keeper"?
It was only then that David Gore understood "what is really worth guarding":
In the first half of his life, he thought that he was a "death row guardian", but what he could protect was only his own reputation and his own power, borrowing a "faith" to decorate the role of "guardian", borrowing a "benevolence" to decorate "the professor who is high above the world has compassion for those low-lying death row prisoners".
But when he really tasted the taste of "being killed", the taste of "being imprisoned", "faith" turned into "doubt", because he saw the cruel but real world.
Has "faith" ever been gone?
No, the "faith" that has been doubted has the power to guard the "truth."
/ When Faith Comes to "Practice" /
The end of David Gore's life was his decision to "take the initiative" to become a QJ, a murderer, and a death row inmate.
This "rape first and then kill" case carefully planned by him and his leukemia female assistant and cowboy is a wonderful flashback thriller suspense that attracts you to watch;
But as far as "faith" is concerned, the director has actually been flattening and directly, so that you can see:
From "Guardian of Death Row" to "Slandered QJ Prisoner" to "Becoming a Death Row Prisoner", David Gore has walked a path from "speaking faith" to "doubting faith" to "practicing faith", and the end of the road: it is his "death", but also his "success".
And when he "becomes", he no longer needs to "say", what remains is only the "saying" of others.
So, when the heroine (reporter) got the last "freedom key" and saw David Gore leave the corpse and turn to look at the camera with a determined and determined look, the heroine was deeply shocked.
When a person "says" faith, it may be easy for us to "like", but we often can't be shocked;
And when a person takes his life to "practice" his faith, even if the person does not say a word, we are deeply impressed.
At this time, it is the soul that shakes the soul, transcending all language.
So whether it's a Buddha or a demon, you still can't tell?
After watching the last shot of the movie, close your eyes and go back to the life of David Gore:
The film begins with David Gore standing on a university podium and saying with great vigour:
The point of Lacan's philosophy is that fantasy must transcend reality, because the moment you get it, you can't and won't want it anymore. In order to continue to exist, the object of desire must never be attainable. What you want is not 'it', but fantasies about 'it'.
The film ends with David Gore quietly and peacefully using his life to prove what he himself taught his students:
Don't measure your life by how many desires you achieve, but by how many moments of sincerity, compassion, reason, and even self-sacrifice you should get. Because in the end, the only measure of our lives depends on how you perceive others.
Desire and fantasy, the first half of David Gore's life;
Sincerity and self-sacrifice are the second half of David Gore's life;
Speaking of faith, it was the first half of David Gore's life;
Practicing faith is the second half of David Gore's life;
He confirmed Lacan's philosophy with his life, and he also practiced the "Guardian of Death Row" with his life.
However, in reality,
David Gore, the first half of his life, is our yearning, role model, role model;
David Gore in the second half of his life is our scorn after a brief praise, and our contempt after a little admiration.
After all, it is easy to "say" faith, and it is easy to get "praise".
And "practicing" faith is to "live", and even if you give your life, you may still be despised.
The Buddha said, "The human body is rare.",
Well, this rare lifetime,
Do we use it to "say" faith, or do we use it to "practice"?
Prime Speech:
It would be a pity to talk only about the film and not the director of the film.
Because in the play, you see David Gore who "practices the faith", even if you are moved, you will think that this is just a fictional story after all.
And outside the scene, you will see the director Alan Parker who "practiced the faith", because this director is a staunch opponent of the death penalty, in order to practice his faith, in order to protest the support of US President Bush for the death penalty, he took political risks and made this film.
(Director: Alan Parker)
Author of this article: Su said
Former producer of Jiangsu Satellite TV, now an independent self-media person, and the founder of Zen Talk Film. Published books "Happiness is like a palm", "Movie Watching Law" and "High Dimensional Wisdom To See Movies" have been published.
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