Italy is one of the "G7" countries.
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<h1 class="ql-align-justify" > not long ago, officially announced its participation in the "Belt and Road" initiative. </h1>
< h1 class="ql-align-justify" > brushed a wave of national favorability. </h1>
<h1 class="ql-align-justify" > today, Uncle Fish hit the iron while it was hot to introduce a newly launched excellent unpopular Italian drama</h1>
<h1 class="ql-align-center" > The Name of the Rose</h1>
The Name of the Rose
The play is based on the semiotic classic mystery novel by the Italian writer Umberto Echo.
The book has been translated into 35 languages, sold more than 16 million copies, and won two of Italy's highest literary awards.
It is also a reprint in China, and since the 1980s, there have been four or five translations, which shows its popularity.
In fact, as early as 1986, the original work has been remade into a movie by the famous Italian director Jean-Jacques Arnold (masterpiece "Lover" and "Wolf Totem"), which is highly evaluated.
However, limited to the length of the movie, many of the details of the original work have not been completely restored, which makes many fans regret.
And now this 8-episode TV series, not only maintaining the standard, but also more loyal to the novel, presumably can make many "original party" addicted.
Before introducing the plot, let's understand the background of the story with Uncle Fish:
In the 14th century, Louis IV, the Holy Roman Emperor of the European continent at the time, and The Pope of Avignon at the time, John XXII, were at odds over the question of "the supremacy of ecclesiastical and imperial power".
When Louis IV ascended the throne, he took the crown from the Roman nobility, not from the pope, as was customary.
This means that he declares himself to be "emperor of the nobility" rather than "emperor of the pope".
The Pope thus imposed a "excommunication" on Louis IV, i.e., excommunication;
In response, Louis IV himself created a "pseudo-pope".
The two sides are fiercely fighting, and war is on the verge of breaking out.
Uncle Fish history class ends.
Against this backdrop, in 1327, the two sides decided to hold a debate in a monastery in an attempt to resolve the issue.
William, the monk who is the male protagonist, came to participate in the debate.
He and his apprentices, seven days in advance, came to the bottom of the monastery's hill and came across a group of monks who had come out of the monastery in a hurry.
Before the other party could speak, William was already the first to utter a startling statement:
"You're obviously looking for the Dean's favorite horse."
The stunned expressions of the monks showed that what William said was true, but did he possess the divine power of an unknown prophet?
However, William smirked that his real weapon was "logic":
Through the horseshoe prints, imagining a horse that had never been seen before, and seeing the monks so nervous, they concluded that it was the abbot's horse.
The head of the theory is the Tao, like a "medieval Sherlock Holmes".
William's personality, on the other hand, is also very similar to Thatrock's, with a slender body, sharp eyes, an eagle hook nose, and a "firm chin".
However, this is not a "tribute" to the screenwriter.
In fact, the prototype of William's character is the famous logician in history, "William of Occam".
That's right, it was William who proposed the famous "Occam Razor" principle.
Historically, William was able to speak eloquently, and was known as the "doctor who could not be refuted".
Therefore, in the play, he shows meticulous reasoning ability and clever words, which is not out of thin air.
After instructing the horses where to go, the two masters and apprentices finally arrived at the monastery.
But inside the monastery, there was a storm on the horizon.
A monk was found dead under a tower, and a funeral was being held for him.
From this point of view, William was keenly aware that this was not an accident, but a murder case with another hidden plot.
(Christianity prohibits suicide, and suicidal believers cannot hold Christian funerals or bury them in church cemeteries.) ）
The abbot acknowledged the incident, acknowledging the smell of conspiracy that had pervaded the monastery recently.
He feared that someone was deliberately sabotaging the debate and asked William for help in finding out the real culprit.
Yes, under the surface of serious and deep religious themes, "The Name of the Rose" is actually a suspenseful detective drama.
The person who died was a scribe of the monastery's books.
On weekdays, together with colleagues, he is responsible for translating and copying rare books collected from all over the world.
During his questioning of the monks, William discovered that Berenga, assistant librarian, seemed to have some affection for the deceased beyond the boundaries of his colleagues.
During a search of Belémgar's room, William found a white cloth stained with blood, and all the evidence pointed to him.
However, the ensuing series of accidents showed that the incident was not so simple.
Another homicide occurred.
The body of a translator in the library was found in an extremely comical pose—with his legs facing the sky, drowning in a tank of pig blood in a pigsty.
Subsequently, the most suspicious Berenga himself was also found drowning in the bathtub...
What is even more bizarre is that this series of dead people died in exactly the same order as the seven trumpets before the end of the world, as prophesied in the book of Revelation:
The first trumpet sounds, hail and fire fall from the sky with blood, corresponding to the monk who fell to his death;
The second trumpet sounds, and one-third of the sea turns into blood, corresponding to the deceased in the pig's blood tank;
The third trumpet sounds, and three-thirds of the creatures in the ocean die, corresponding to Belenga who is soaked in water.
Does this confirm that the end is coming, or is it that some fanatical believer has made prophecy his code of murder?
With the escalation of serial murders, everyone in the monastery was in a state of panic.
Beneath the glamorous exterior, the dark and rotten inside story was gradually exposed.
The abbot of the monastery, who was ostensibly righteous and awe-inspiring, was actually afraid that he had been "pagan" and could only use fine wine and looted gold and silver treasures to masturbate.
The director of the library, who seems to be polite and polite, dedicates his life to knowledge and wisdom, but in fact covets the position of dean all the time.
The whole is a hypocrite who is good at being a gentleman and a snake.
The most senior and respected blind monk in the monastery, on the other hand, has been using his power to block all dissenting books and suppress the curiosity of the young monks.
Not to mention the ubiquitous corruption, sodomy, lies, mutual exclusion, revenge on dissidents...
And by William, a foreigner, to expose the pickled truth of all this golden jade and external defeat, it is actually another dark line hidden under the main line of the show's search for the truth of the murder.
This medieval detective suspense drama involves not only criminology and logic, but also political science, theology, and history.
It reflects the prophecies of sin in the Bible, as well as the different philosophies of Bacon, Aristotle, Aquinas, and so on.
William's new Catholic church, the Franciscan Church, contradicted ecclesiastical orthodoxy.
The Franciscans advocated poverty-keeping, trying to strictly imitate the way of life of Christ;
Under the long-term influence of unbridled power, the top echelons of the church have long regarded wealth as their destiny, corrupted and degenerated into inhuman form.
Rather than following the teachings of Christ, they were more interested in slaughtering all dissidents who threatened them.
Historically, William was imprisoned by the Pope as a heretic because of his doubts about the extravagant life of the church.
That's lucky.
More "infidels", such as the exiles displaced by the war in the play, the "Dochirino" faction of its own, the believers will be burned at the stake by the infamous Inquisition.
William in the play was actually a religious judge in the Inquisition.
However, he loved the emerging science and advocated rationality, and finally could not stand the fanatical atmosphere and brutality that pervaded it, and chose to flee, and even decided to support the emperor and fight against the pope.
He himself summed up his observations of the people of the Holy See in this way:
"Be wary of the prophets and those who are ready to die for the truth, for they usually bring many people with them to their death, often first and sometimes to die for them."
And the blind monks in the monastery are undoubtedly the best allegories of the Holy See: blindness, fanaticism.
Finally, together with the monastery, he was buried in the sea of fire, in part an apocalyptic prophecy of the church's future.
At the end of the 14th century, the Renaissance movement arose, sounding the first death knell for the decline of the traditional Catholic Church.
William's doctrinal thinking, such as "man is saved by his own faith," became the spark of martin Luther's Protestant reforms in later generations.
The long, oppressive curtain of darkness in the Middle Ages was finally burned down under the torches of reason and humanity.
What leads mankind to the truth is not fanatical blind faith, but prudent reason.
In this regard, it is the same in ancient and modern times.