To Believe or Not to Believe?

Rating: 9/10 (17 February 2017)

To Believe or Not to Believe? (light spoil alert) --- For my lovely people who are curious enough about my humbly arrogant opinion, and thoughts of nonsense.
Like any good film, there should be many thoughts and opinions that come with it, I can not say what I saw was what intended, but a good movie does the job of forcing it's audiences to question, which brings to my topic. An idea only became the "truth" because enough people speak of it, then we use the "truth" to our own selfish reasons. No one genuinely like to be wrong; although, I could be wrong on that. "It can't be true" Belief is something that was constantly questioned throughout the film, however it is not what created all the problems. When we are arrogant enough to believe that our idea is the "truth" and it would apply to anyone anywhere, then try and push our immature idea onto other people, while confirming to ourselves even further as reward, what have we done to other people? Did he bring peace and comfort to his people, or push them to their deaths. Not everyone who died have died for meaningful reasons. It just makes us feel better to think that they did, therefore reinforces the "heroic" belief. We all have the natural resistance for anything forced upon us, so when something is forbidden, we'd all like to try that fruit, even if it causes our death. Like Liam Neeson's character said in the film, the people didn't even have same understanding on what god was as they did because of the language and cultural barrier. So what were they really praying to? Did they want to die for honor, or just to escape a harsh reality? Was it really worth risking his and their lives for? But again, what is? I believe that nothing can be believed as the absolute "truth". And if you judge it as carefully as Martin Scorsese did in making the film, you would notice that its not about who is right or wrong. The mere idea is laughable. "Its just formality" Words spoken out loud is always misleading, so he finally chooses silence in the end, like a wise Buddhist monk, you see, understanding reality and belief leads people to the same place no matter what you believe. And my opinion stays that going into war and torturing people because they believe in a different fantasy than you are is just as stupid and meaningless as however meaningless and stupid you think the other side is. The film also mostly abandoned music brilliantly, as music is the most easy and obvious way to force emotion. I sat through the entire credit as usual, the only music it had was the music of nature. (On a side note, I don't understand what kind of mistake they could have made to have to bring ADR into this kind of high budget film with a director of perfection.) I'm sorry if you haven't seen the film, although the film is about the journey, not the end, so I haven't spoiled much. After all that, as I always say, I wouldn't want to force my ideas on anybody, but if you agree, you should do so as your own idea. ;) Also nobody is gonna read all the way down here 😌