Film Review: 'Original Sin'

The first time I saw the film "Original Sin", some people didn't understand the name of the film, why is it called "Original Sin"? It is not a love story, nor is it a film about sin. When we see "Original Sin" we have to think of the original sinful roots of Western Christianity. So what is the film about?
The plot of the film is clear: a handsome, wealthy man, Lewis, sends a bride from America to order a beautiful, sexy bride, with whom Lewis has been in love ever since. Lewis is deeply hurt and sits alone in an empty room, thinking "I want her back". After a few weeks, Lewis finally finds her, claiming to be the real name of Bonnie's wife, betrayed by anger and hatred for being cheated out of her, and in front of Bonnie, he embraces her again, even taking her to the ruins with him for murder. Who would have thought it was just another con? 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 lodgings in the dark, Lewis returns to Bonnie and her poison. Lewis tells Bonnie he knows everything, but to prove his love, Lewis drinks the poison. Bonnie was so remorseful that she took Lewis and fled from the pursuit of Billy, even protecting Lewis, took the gun in Lewis' hands and shot Billy before patrolling. Bonnie is sentenced to death and receives a deathbed confession, but miraculously escapes from prison. The film ends with Lewis and Bonnie cheating at a card game. Bonnie is so attractive 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 sensual blend of lust and seduction, sin and love that makes it impossible to give a simple right or wrong judgement. 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 don't know what love is. Marrying a wife is like buying something just so she can have a child of her own - just like everyone else. You get married at nine and you can go back to work at ten. There's no need to delay anything. At the quay, the bride's face 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 be love, a hopeless love, a repeated crime, a love without reserve, 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 of 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 realised that the film tells the story of love and desire, of redemption and sin. Adam and Eve, the ancestors of mankind, were tempted by Satan to eat of the fruit of the tree of life against God's will, giving birth to sin from mankind. Sin is caused by desire, and almost all human sin is related to improper desire. Desire is the beginning of sin. Love is also sin, for human love comes from desire. Desire is possession, possession, and human love includes possession, and when it does not, hatred arises. However, it is the way in which human beings redeem and redeem God, and when love goes beyond desire, when it approaches the love of God, 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 Original Sin, there is the phrase: "Love is giving, desire is taking." . The film is full of atmospheric aspirations, as Bonnie and Billy kill the real bride on the boat for a marriage scam; Billy Bonnie continues to deceive Lewis into insatiable bullying when he puts Bonnie's neck hard and says "you're mine", in the fire of burning eyes of desire, in order to get. Sharing, even if it is a crime! And what about Lewis? Lewis loved it and he paid the price, but he was still 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 picked up the gun and looked everywhere for Bonnie, found her, only to fall 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 through love, despair and even sin. The desire for love is the root of sin.
If you just stay with Bonnie in Lewis' 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 of love," so Lewis takes the poisoned coffee and slowly, quietly, Bonnie's pain says, "I love you, for better or for worse, for who you are, I love you," and drinks that poison. At this moment, Lewis's love is beyond love in the usual sense; it has no desire, it is only purely giving, complete, without complaint. Only in this sense is love closer to God's love, and it is this love that led Bonnie to run off and kill Billy, full of greed and evil, and it is this love that led her to escape from death row to the miracle of the priest's deathbed confession; this is love, and so Lewis gets a perfect ending. This is the measure of the relevance of Bonnie's love for Lewis as salvation.
So this 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 film, "Love is for those who believe in it." So it is with 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" comes 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 - and that original sin is the first generation of sin and the sin at the root of guilt, a sin that is the sin of every human being.

Original sin is one of the key theological propositions of Christianity and one of the key theories of basic teaching. Christianity holds that Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit against God's will and "passed on the glory of God", the inherited sin to future generations, as the cause of all human sin, suffering, pain and death. Man is a sinner before God. Even a newborn baby, though it has not sinned, is still a sinner because he has sinned.

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