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Tom
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 2/14/2009 1:52 PM (GMT -6) | | I hear that the Midwest OCA priest's convocation viewed it this week.
Corey said...
This film was recommended to me today by an old friend from Lithuania. Looks interesting, I'm going to check it out tonight.
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Corey
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| Posted 2/14/2009 2:07 PM (GMT -6) | | | The copy I found online only had French subtitles, so that didn't help me so much. My Russian isn't strong enough, but I got the general idea. My wife (native Russian, as you know) watched it with me and that "it has some very good ideas in it." It was a story of atonement, of salvation through an Orthodox narrative. The story starts with the main character committing a murder through betrayal and cowardice. His whole life becomes defined by this sin, an all-encompassing obsession. By relating absolutely to God as a sinner, everything else became relative, and he ironically gained a certain spiritual acuity. He became an eccentric, a fool-for-Christ, since he no longer attached any value to temporal things. Although he lived humbly as a coal-tender at small rural monestary, his counsel gained renown and even the priests sought to learn from him. But for him, it was all a torment, in that he could not relieve his own guilt; his gifts seemed to be for everyone but himself. The irony was that through his service for others, he was actually achieving his own salvation and forgiveness. Finally released from his guilt, he stepped into his coffin, laid down with folded arms, and died.
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