Any agnostics or atheists fond of this film?
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I don't believe in God or miracles and I loved this movie in every way.
In the same way, I don't believe in UFO landings, alien abductions etc but I love Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.
I don't believe in blue fairies or talking wooden boys - Pinocchio
etc etc
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Anti-theist and enjoyed it.
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I am an agnostic and I have seen 'Ordet' four or five times. I watch it because it is a great piece of cinematic art: the stark BW cinematography, the long takes and slow pans... a fantastic mise en scene, you can breathe the atmosphere the characters are in.
I don't care about religious/metaphysical/philosophical/moral messages and interpretations. Actually, 'Ordet' is about stubborn proselytism, shown here in the conflict between the Borgen and Petersen patriarchs.
'Religion is the opium of mankind'
Karl Marx
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It exposes the hypocrisy of religion more than just about any other film I've seen. It then proceeds to fall upon its own sword by reinventing an old miracle. Bringing back the old God, the two men were saying. False hope for anyone who may have taken a literal standpoint. But a wonderful movie all the same.
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I accept that what I know will never be the end of the matter when it comes to the life and creation but I find it hard to believe what my religion wants me to believe.
I thought this film was very critical of the faith of its characters who were "lukewarm" in faith as Johannes said. So much were they consumed with the idea of God's will and life after death than they thought not to ask for a miracle and yet their religion preaches miracles including that of Jesus risen from the dead. I found this a most powerful critique of the limits of religious belief. The film itself is beautiful; the photography, the staging, the quietness and pauses and the wonderful characters fleshed out so fully that I invested in them all.
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Another unbeliever here, that thinks this movie is a masterpiece.
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-You won't forget me now?share
-No. I've got nobody else to remember.
i love it. it was recommended to me by a stout odinist who also loved it.
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