The Killing of a Sacred Deer
トーク情報- harisamame
harisamame I would like to add something to my last review. I was saying that sacrifice is exactly the opposite of the law of retaliation (the law that we see in the movie, also known as "An eye for an eye" the principle that a person who has injured another person is to be penalized to a similar degree. I was also saying that the deep understanding of sacrifice refer to the sacrifice of human sufferance to reach higher degree of consciousness and existence. When we sacrifice something (and sufferance in particular) we are not losing anything but we are obtaining something much more noble and valuable: liberty from the laws of the world and the human sufferance. In the sacrifice of Isaac when Isaac is bound to an altar, a messenger from God stops Abraham at the last minute, saying "now I know you fear God." Abraham looks up and sees a ram and sacrifices it instead of Isaac. Similarly the sacrifice of Iphigenia ends with a messenger reporting that Iphigenia has been replaced on the altar by a deer (the deer of the title of the movie. Also in the story of Hariscandra (and ancient myth of the Hinduism tradition) Rohita does not die when he is scarified and sent to death by his father the king Harischandra. Sacrifice brings to Life not to death! The movie should finish with everybody safe and alive after the sacrifice of one of the member family (in the understanding of the myth of Iphigenia and sacrifice in general. Thank u to have read my poor English.