I will make a reservation at once that this picture is categorically impossible to watch half-eye, you need to plunge fully and headlong into viewing, you need to look, listen, delve into, without missing a single sound, without losing sight of a single gesture, having tuned in to the same wave with the director, and only then everything will play out and sound like a well-established orchestra led by the skillful hand of the conductor ...
There are not so many words, but many images and parallels, a lot of metaphors and food for thought, a lot of divine light shed on the realities of life.
The plot uses the usual, even mundane, themes of conflict in relationships: workers, friends, marital, parental... But, all the habituality and mundaneness is smeared like an old paint, when the heroes step on the Holy Land of Jerusalem, here the conflicts are so aggravated that they do not tolerate delay and require immediate resolution. The holy places turn inside out the souls of the heroes, lifting from their bottom the hidden and hammered for many years into the far corner, but not forgotten, grievances, here words are broken from the tongue that have been silent for many years, feelings that have been held back for many years find an outlet, here there is apotheosis for each of the heroes, here their fates are divided into “before” and “after”, not just divided, but burst with a bang, like a veil in the temple, when Jesus Christ gave his last breath ...
From now on, there is no turning back. Jerusalem tore off their masks, showed them their true face, exposed their feelings hidden from themselves, allowed them to look at themselves from the outside. They just have to change now, never be the same again.
Viewing stirred up many feelings in me, made me look deep into myself, dig into my own thoughts and feelings, and also ... open the Scriptures.
I advise you not to go by and look and then think.
10 out of 10 Original