| The Priest is a documentary of You Yanling,who is a priest of the Guzhen County Christian Church.In 1966,You Yanling was born in a martyr family.She was growing up under the nurture of patriotism education since childhood.She was determined to serve the motherland and contributing to society.In 1976,You Yanling was falsely accused of counter-revolution when she was in third grade primary school,thus suffering from the first turning point in her life.The shadow of the counter-revolutionary event has been shrouded in the heart of You Yanling until she became a christian in 1983.You Yanling rekindled her patriotism passion as the Guzhen County Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement Committee founded in 1984.Patriotic religious belief confirmed You Yanling’s christian faith.Even if she was in trouble with her marriage life until the rupture,and the church’s internal struggle is fierce,these can’t make You Yanling change her faith.Until today,You Yanling has been divorced with her husband for four years,still work for the county church business all day busy.From the creation of origin,works overview,narrative structure and clues,image style and creative techniques,meaning and difficulty of these aspects,the creation of the documentary respectively research,explore and elaborate on this documentary how to change its creative focus to the female individual who is fixed on the patriotism and collectivism,through a female priest up to 50 years of life experience records,oral way to carefully reveal the life trajectory of You Yanling,exploring the dialectical relationship between the political environment and religious beliefs,trying to have a restricted view on the contemporary chinese political history changes since the Great Cultural Revolution,as well as the real feelings of the individual life. |
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