Hello everyone, today's Xiaobian recommends a very classic film for everyone - "Comrade Priest". The film was released in Canada in 1994 and won the Best Feature Film award at the Teddy Awards at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival.
At the beginning of the film, the elderly former priest leaves the parish, so the church brings in a good priest, Greg. Greg was a young, handsome and ambitious priest who was sent to a new parish. In one inadvertent case, he discovers that the elderly Father Matthew is not only acting out of the ordinary, but also living with Maria, a black housekeeper, whom he despises on the one hand, but also a man with secrets.
The residents of the New Parish were of low quality and difficult to indoctrinate, and Greg was repeatedly hit and very depressed. Once, after work, Greg, who found himself alone at home, changed into plain clothes and rode his bicycle to a gay bar to drink, where he met another man, Graham, and left in a hurry after a night of passion, and then he couldn't face himself.
Greg discovers that the young girl Lisa has been sexually assaulted by her biological father during a routine confession, but his conscience is tormented by the fact that he cannot leak the contents of the confession and cannot make the matter public. He heeded Matthew's advice and hinted at Lisa's mother several times, but to no avail. He couldn't take it anymore, and when he got back in his room, he was angry at the cross and the idol, he threw things, he cried and prayed, why didn't God help the child? In fact, God had already responded to him. The girl's mother climbed up to the second floor under the sound of a siren, which discovered the crime of father-daughter incest.
The next day Lisa's mother stormed into the church and scolded the priest: "You already knew that, didn't you?" Why don't you say? Are you still not human? Greg was helpless, but he was also glad that the girl was rescued. It's just that the price is too high, because neither mother nor daughter has been able to forgive him. A bitter Greg went to Graham to complain, and the two kissed again on the beach.
One day, Greg and Graham were kissing in the car and were caught by the police and exposed by the newspaper, causing dissatisfaction among local residents and the church. After Greg's unsuccessful search for death, he was transferred by the church to a remote parish, and just when he was abandoned by everyone, it was Father Matthew who came to him and helped him regain his courage and persuade him to let him return to the original church.
At the end of the film, when Greg and Father Matthew preside over the dispersion, the people begin to argue about Greg, and in the heat of the debate, the angry residents go away, feeling that the comrade priest has tarnished their faith. None of the remaining residents were willing to line up to receive Greg's communion, and at this time, Lisa walked up, she took the communion in Greg's hand, and the two embraced each other and cried.
On the one hand, Greg in the film knows his desires: "Seven emotions and six desires, the world is difficult to stop." Even angels are no exception", on the other hand, they are bound by stereotypes and old rules, and they feel that their sins are so deep that they live in the cracks of society. Only Father Matthew was like a guiding light, tearing through all the moral robes of hypocrisy. If being a comrade is a mistake, if being a comrade priest is a mistake. So what is true in this secular moral judgment?