You Want Spiritual Renewal? Watch Along with the Gods, a Korean Movie

Around 18 hours from now, it will be Easter Sunday for us Christians in my side of the world. It has been raining since Good Friday. I remember as a kid, it always rains during Holy Week, either Good Friday or Holy Saturday and this Saturday is no different.

More than 2 hours ago I was watching a movie. I was eating dinner with fried fish, some atchara and turmeric rice as I watched this South Korean movie. It was not something I had seen in a movie house. I wanted to but I was too self-engrossed working at home that I don't know what's happening outside anymore.

_(source)

And so it started, a firefighter's soul journey through the seven hells, the seven gates of judgement. Along with our protagonist Paragon and his 3 guardian grim reapers (or defense counsel), I journeyed with him through the 7 hells and reviewed my own sins. I am not perfect.

The worst sin of it all according to the movie arrangement and to the protagonist's sins has to do with * _toooot . Everything in the movie culminated into that one sin. * _{(Whew, I almost gave a major movie spoiler away, good thing I edited this for you.)}

The last few scenes hit me the most, like the movie is meant for me. Other people may not understand it, other people may not be affected by the scenes and the story but it hit me hard in the end. It made me ask for forgiveness, like I am at my wits end. I have nowhere else to go anymore. I shall follow God or whatever Higher Being wants me to do. I am only a vessel. How hard can it be to accept it?

How hard can it be? It only hurts when we struggle. It only hurts when we keep fighting it. It always gently demands surrender. So I will do it. Whatever His plans for me now, only He knows. I only ask mercy for my soul. That is all. Mercy for our souls.

Whoever said watching a movie alone has no value? Watch it at your own risk. I never thought I'd cry so deeply, be moved so passionately that I'd stay over the sink with running water crying my eyes and heart out. My sins have come to haunt me.

As we humans make our way through our lives we forget to be good people. As a kid I would envy the saints and tell myself I could never be one. It is too hard. Perhaps a hero, but what am I doing with my life? Wasting some time away in idleness? Well I am doing something but I still think of it as idleness. That is one of the seven gates of hell the main character went through.

_{(a firefighter named Kim Ja Hong, our protagonist [source])}

Am I using my life well? Am I using my talents well? What am I doing? What are you doing?

The movie is a slow roast I tell you. You won't know what hit you until after it's over. Thanks to the English subtitle I got everything I needed to know, otherwise I would not understand the movie at all.

The acting is superb, it's genuine, it's amazing. You wouldn't know how hard it is to be an actor and feel those emotions unless you've tried an acting workshop or two as I have. It is difficult for me to be someone else. It is difficult to pretend. It is difficult to do method acting because you will embody the character, you will be the character, thus sometimes other actors never come back from the depths of the character they assumed.

I have always loved fantasy (and adventure) and have been fascinated by it. All the mystical shizz and shenanigans, it gives me a thrill, it makes me happy. Why not if it's magical? Why not since it's fantastic.

I don't know if I am making any sense. I have been told by a fellow Steemian (hello @raj808) that I got too blissed out from a meditation session . So who knows, maybe I got too "blissed out" watching this movie too.

If you are going to watch it, pls don't forget your tissues. Perhaps if you watch it as a family it might bring you closer together? Who knows?

This is definitely the best Holy Week movie I have ever seen. It is a whole other level. It does not compare to The Passion of the Christ, that is very different from this one.

Kudos to the people who made this film come to life. Kudos to the webtoon artist and creator who have created it. The movie has a very touching story. It is an excellent movie. My words are not enough to describe it. My only wish is that it changes your life too. Perhaps after watching this movie, your life will be different, if not immediately then sooner or later.

Even the actors' lives and everyone involved in making the movie got changed. So far this is the best film that has ever touched my soul like a bull's eye. It hurts but it should make you feel and be better in the end.

XOXO,
@artgirl

P. S. I rate it 11/10. Here's the movie trailer. My 2 hours was well spent indeed.

The trailer is amazing in itself but it does not have the whole story at all. You might say it is misleading but I will let you be the judge of that once you've seen the movie.

Ciao for now!

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