Foreign Film Review: "Original Sin

The first time I saw the movie "Original Sin", some people didn't understand the name of the movie, why is it called "Original Sin"? This is not a love story, nor is it a movie about sin. When we see "Original Sin", we must think of the original sinful roots of Western Christianity. So what is the movie about?
The plot of the movie is clear: a handsome, rich man, Lewis, sends a bride from America to order a beautiful and sexy bride, and Lewis falls in love with her ever since. Lewis is deeply hurt and sits alone in an empty room, thinking "I want her back". After several weeks, Lewis finally found her, claiming to be the real name of Bonnie's wife, betrayed by anger, hatred of being cheated away, in front of the immediate Bonnie, he re-embraced her, and even took her with him to murder, broken on the ruins. Who would have thought it was just another trick? When he follows Bonnie to a brothel, he hears that it was Bonnie and his partner Billy who conspired to poison themselves. Stumbling back to his place in the dark, Lewis returns to Bonnie and her poison. Lewis tells Bonnie that he knows everything, but to prove his love, Lewis drinks the poison. Bonnie is so remorseful that she takes Lewis to escape from the pursuit of Billy and even protects Lewis by taking the gun in Lewis' hands and shooting Billy before patrolling. Bonnie is sentenced to death and receives a deathbed confession, but miraculously escapes from prison. The movie ends with Lewis and Bonnie cheating at a poker game. Bonnie is so charming that he slips into the camera and puts his hand on his neck. The film's deep and slightly optimistic drum beat adds a captivating and obsessive exoticism to the Cuban genre, a sexy blend of desire and seduction, sin and love that makes it impossible to give a simple right or wrong judgment. The film begins with a pale face and calm eyes: "You can't leave love". Destined to be a film about love. At first, men do not know what love is. Marrying a wife is like buying something just so she can have a child on her own - just like everyone else. Get married at nine, you can go back to work at ten. There's no need to delay anything. At the pier, the bride's face is invisible in the face of the blinding sun. Is that you, Mr. Lewis?" Enough to disturb the peace of mind. With music, crazy eyes, sensuality and mystery, what could be more addictive than this confusion? The first encounter is destined to love, a helpless love, a repeated crime, a love without reservation, where reputation, status, wealth and even life can be thrown away. But the woman says: "This is not a love story. But it is a story about love."
In fact, it is not a love story, but a story about love. As I read Original Sin for the second time, I suddenly realized that the film tells the story of love and desire, of redemption and sin. The human ancestors Adam and Eve, tempted by Satan, disobeyed God's will and ate the fruit of the tree of life, giving birth to sin from mankind. Sin is caused by desire, and almost all human sins are related to improper desires. Desire is the beginning of sin. Love is also sin, because human love comes from desire. Desire is possession, possession, and human love includes possession, and when not possessed, hatred arises. However, it is the way in which human beings redeem and redeem God, and when love goes beyond desire, when it approaches God's love, it becomes giving that continues to give and cannot be given in return. So love and desire, like the opposite backs of angels and demons, the sway between man and man will be in love, with angels and demons alternating in their role. In the original sin, there is this phrase: "Love is giving, desire is taking." . The movie is full of atmospheric desires, Bonnie and Billy kill the real bride on the boat for the marriage scam; Billy Bonnie continues to cheat Lewis insatiable, bullying, when he puts Bonnie's neck hard and says "you are mine", in the burning eyes of the fire of desire, in order to get. Share, even if it is a crime! And what about Lewis? Lewis loved and he paid the price, but he remained angry when he learned to be betrayed and cheated." I will think of her in the sleepless nights." . She probably never knew how much I loved her, so once she left me, she had no idea how much I hated her. He picks up the gun, looks around for Bonnie, finds her, but falls deeper in love. For love he killed; for love he and she were beaten and cheated out of money; for love he gave up his wealth and reputation and ran away with her. He fell into the valley of sin because of love, despair, and even sin. The desire for love is the root of sin.
If you just stay with Bonnie in Lewis's love, that is, when he finds out that Bonnie conspired with Billy and did not drink the poison, but they exposed their revenge, even so, here is nothing more than a love story and a crime. However, at the beginning of the story, the heroine says: "This is not a love story. "But it is a story about love," so Lewis takes the poisoned coffee and slowly, quietly, Bonnie's pain says: "I love you, whether you are good or bad, who you are, I love you," and then drinks that poison. At this moment, Lewis's love has transcended the general sense of love, it has no desire, it is only pure giving, complete, without regret. Only in this sense love is closer to the love of God, it is this love, so Bonnie ran to kill Billy, full of greed and evil, it is this love that made her escape from death row to the miracle of the priest's deathbed confession; this is love, so Lewis got a perfect ending. This is the measure of the relevance of Bonnie's love for Lewis as salvation. So, it is a story about love. Sin is the root of human love and desire. Love is both sin and God's salvation. There is also a line in the movie that says, "Love is for those who believe in it." The same is true of God's love, which is reserved for those who believe in it, and only those who believe in it can truly redeem it.
P.S. The term "original sin" is derived from Christian lore. It refers to the sin that is inherent in man and cannot be washed away. The Bible says that there are two kinds of sin in man - sin and guilt. Original sin is the first generation of sin and the sin at the root of guilt, and this guilt is the sin of every man.
Original sin is one of the important theological propositions of Christianity and one of the important theories of basic teaching. Christianity believes that Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit against God's will and "passed on the glory of God", inherited sin to future generations, as the cause of all sin, suffering, pain and death of mankind. Man is a sinner before God. Even a newborn baby, though he has not sinned, is still a sinner, because he has sinned.