god interacted with the nation of israel (only)... then god was presented in the person of christ (only)... and then the religion of christianity was the working act of god (only)... again this is what i was raised to believe... not my convictions in the now...
so, if you have not seen hero and plan to, there might be some spoilers, so understand that before reading the rest of this post...
i am still taking this movie in in retrospect and am recounting many things about it... so poetic... this film is beautiful... simply beautiful...
putting down our sword is the last thing that we think of in the ever-conquering world we live in... i think of how timely this movie is in regards to the current american empire that is being built... man, has much changed as we have 'progressed'?...
the life of 'nameless' (sound like the way-force called the tao) is intriguing... especially in regards to the reference i made in an earlier post about the early chinese translation of the gospel of st. john... "In the beginning was Tao, and Tao was with God, and Tao was God..."
nameless is this seemingly perfect indivudual that is seeking to overthrow the empire that is causing bloodbath... but it is not with the sword that he subverts the empire... and his life is taken...
i also wondered (in awe) about all the martial-arts of gravity-defying stuff they were doing... walking on water and such... i wonder if these stories of a hero-savior-atoner in this chinese history are not that different from what we read about in books like the bible or the koran or the vedas... perhaps god was doing different things in each culture, telling his story... but each time, in their own context... perhaps the christian version wasn't suitable for all nations at all times... i mean the version we think christian...
my mind is still swirling right now... i am going to sleep and think about this again tomorrow and write some more...
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