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Due to the routine maintenance of the Gadot in Los Angeles, Murphy and Gal Gadot had to take a flight back to Los Angeles. Fortunately, the conditions of the first-class cabin of the plane are also good, which can ensure sufficient comfort.

Robert Downey Jr., James Franco and others continued to stay at the Toronto Film Festival to promote the film Focus, with these stars in front of the stage, coupled with the film's good reputation and natural topicality , can also continue to attract the attention of the media and movie fans.

The news from CAA...

There were very few people in the first class, and Gal Gadot and Murphy were sitting on adjacent seats. She kept talking about the film and Catholicism, The Vatican has held several cardinal meetings about this film. Meeting.

Gal Gadot has always been in charge of these chores. After hearing this, Murphy couldn't help asking, Are they discussing coping strategies?

No! Gal Gadot shook his head directly, CAA European Branch has vaguely received a little information about the meeting, and the Vatican is discussing who should be most responsible for the series of scandals that broke out in Catholicism since last year.

Murphy understood right away, It's someone who wants to take advantage of the situation.

Wherever there are people, there are fights, and the church is no exception. It is not uncommon for major churches to be split due to internal strife in history.

Gal Gadot got not very sure news, Maybe, it is said that a group of people headed by Cardinal Francis and Pope Benedict XVI are not in the same faction and want to seize ...

She shrugged and didn't continue, but Murphy could understand.

Faith! Murphy sighed.

Gal Gadot added, Faith is not the worship of a god in form, nor the loyalty to a church in behavior, but the truth, goodness, and beauty from the heart. This is the essence of faith!

Before falling in love with Murphy, Gal Gadot was also a believer, but he believed in Judaism. Later, under the influence of Murphy, although he still had the name of a Jew, he actually left this belief long ago.

She also said, If you understand the nature of faith, people in the know will not think that exposing church scandals is a provocation to faith. On the contrary, it is an insistence on faith.

It's a pity... Murphy shook his head, I can't realize the truth, kindness, and beauty in my heart.

So, you are a person without faith. Gal Gadot said rather helplessly, It also affects people who have no faith.

Murphy couldn't help laughing. What Gal Gadot said just now did make some sense. If he understood the essence of faith, the Bishop Lao would not think that using the Bible quotations and the name of the Lord to attack the personnel who investigated the scandal was wrong. The maintenance of faith is, on the contrary, a desecration of faith; as for the clergy involved in the case, they are even a group of people who have nothing to do with faith. The moment they desecrate children, they have betrayed the faith, even though they still wear The cloak of a pastor, the ability to recite the Bible backwards, and the fanatical worship of God are all useless.

The collective distortion of the perception of belief has virtually built a system that breeds and condones crimes, from priests to bishops, from lawyers to the police,

No one can be exonerated, which is the real reason why the scandal has not been revealed for a long time.

Due to the distortion of faith cognition, the church has lost the ability to correct itself, and must rely on external forces to correct, that is, a group of people who are considered to have no faith to help a group of people who claim to have faith to get back on the right track. He is the real guardian of the faith, at a glance.

And the victims in this scandal are not groups with distorted beliefs and cognitions? They were so easily sexually assaulted by pastors because of the excessive trust of their clergy. The mother of one of the victims even brought a cake to treat the pastor who sexually assaulted her son. Is this respect for faith? This is ignorance!

Faith is a kind of moral consensus, and the church is just a human organization in the name of worshiping God. It cannot replace faith. In fact, the difference is hundreds of thousands of miles. Therefore, whether a person has faith cannot be judged by whether he joins the church or not. determination! The entire society reacts so violently to the moral corruption of the clergy. In the final analysis, it is also a deviation in the perception of faith! Most people easily regard them as the benchmark of faith.

When faith becomes a profession, a collection of interests, there will be all kinds of dirty things in it, and it is to cover up it to protect interests. Have you heard of the theory that Buddhists do not attack each other? The reasons are similar, and they are all outsiders. In order to maintain the image of a high-level religious belief in order to attract more people to worship, it is natural to cover up scandals.

After all, this world is not as wonderful as imagined, and it is not as beautiful as some people describe. In this era, not only in the world of adults, nothing is easy, even the lives of children are not easy...

Murphy can be regarded as a kind of person. As long as it doesn't fall on his head, he doesn't bother to care about it. After all, his energy is limited, and he is not an ancient saint.

To be more precise, the past life has made him numb in some ways.

Even because of his professional relationship, Murphy doesn't like media reporters very much, whether it is now or in the past, but he is also very clear that many ugly truths that are tightly wrapped, tried to cover up, and people can't bear to look directly at all depend on daring to break free from the system Only by fully exposing the oppressive and restrictive media platforms with a fair, truthful and serious attitude can the people who are kept in the dark recognize the facts and see a trace of the unhealthy phenomena and atmosphere in the society full of corruption and deception. Dawn of justice.

However, behind a neglected and underestimated event, there are often hidden real problems that continue to fester, deteriorate and grow. Rampant and arrogant evil forces will continue to spread and erode, causing incalculable and tragic results beyond regret.

If raising a child depends on the support of the whole village, then destroying the whole village will not be able to get rid of the responsibility. This line, which was in the original film, was used by Murphy in the film again intact, complaint In addition to and exposing, it has a deeper meaning, that is, the evil of the system is higher than the evil of individuals.

Some incidents are not just the individual crimes of a few people, but many large-scale crimes are completely the result of the system's cover and connivance. For example, in a city with a strong Catholic tradition, when they heard that they were going to be enemies of the church, everyone flinched.

The Catholic Church has played a huge role in the thousands of years of human history. Even in modern society, the Church still plays an important role in people's lives, providing people with a lot of material and spiritual help.

However, when the church grows stronger and stronger, it will inevitably want to maintain its own authority as its power expands; the church is also a black sheep, to damage the sacred majesty of this organization.

Faced with these hazards, what is the choice of the church?

In any case, an influential organization should have the courage to take on its responsibilities.

It's a pity that few directors have the motivation to bring similar events to the screen, because this is still a thankless job that goes against mainstream movie viewing trends and political needs.

Now that I think about it, I am happier living in the world of some news, because the society I live in is always beautiful, and I don’t have to worry about those messy things at all.

Back in Los Angeles, Murphy began to work on another upcoming North American awards season, Gal Gadot was preparing to start preparations for Fifty Shades of Grey, Paul Wilson, who had filmed large-scale dramas, had already Agreed to be the director of this film, Jessica Alba is also negotiating with Stanton Studio about the heroine. If there is no problem, she should take over the role of Anna.

Of course, Jessica Alba's skin color is a bit of a problem, but after these changes, the character settings are good, and it's not a big trouble.

Compared to Gal Gadot, who was preparing for the new film, Murphy ran around and frequently met with some big shots in the academy. These so-called big shots may not have great abilities today, but they are indeed very old. Their influence Most of the power is concentrated in the interior of the college.

In other words, they are the judges who can influence some of the Oscar judges.

It is not an easy task for anyone, even the winner of some technical awards, to aspire to the Oscar statuette for two consecutive years.

Murphy just won his second Oscar for Best Director in March. If he wants to win the Oscar next year, he must make sufficient preparations.

During this period, he also went to meet Kara Firth, discussing not only the new movie, but also the situation of Dark City.

The film was offline in North America one month after the Oscars ceremony. The box office in North America eventually broke through 740 million US dollars with the help of the halo effect of 13 Oscar statuettes, and finally reached 746.7 million US dollars in total.

Although the North American box office record of Avatar is only more than 15 million U.S. dollars, with the financial resources of Stanton Studio, it is possible to win the North American box office championship by privately purchasing the box office in minutes, but Murphy did not do this. Making yourself the laughing stock of the world for the sake of a North American box office champion is something only fools would do.

Overseas screenings last longer. Due to the film’s Oscar halo and super box office effect, some countries and regions have joined the screenings. Even theaters in some small African countries can see Dark City figure.

Until the beginning of September, Dark City was released in all overseas regions.

Dark City also ended all theatrical screenings, and the final global box office did not exceed Avatar, but the figure of 2.5162 billion US dollars is enough to bring Murphy huge profits!

When Twentieth Century Fox handed over the first $400 million director share, Murphy got the news that His Excellency Archbishop Marquez Costello was leaving the United States.