The Well, the 2019 Spanish film produced by Netflix, has become one of the most viewed and talked about films of recent days, is a metaphor for life in society, which speaks of social stratification and the condition of inequality caused by the lack of solidarity and the stimulus of the competitiveness generated by the oppression of man for man.
The film is full of symbolism and allegory, leaving some points open to countless performances, isn’t it?Repeated old Trimagasi. Here I would give my most plausible version of the open end, and then I will make a small bridge with the doctrine of sin. Do I have to say a lot of spoilers are coming?
- Well.
- In vertical prison which also seems to be a kind of social experience.
- People on the top floor eat a banquet as the platform goes down several floors.
- And because of greed.
- Food doesn’t reach every floor.
- People change randomly and may wake up higher or lower.
- This feeds (word game) the individualism of those who.
- Because they have been deprived of food for so long.
- Begin to eat and spoil food as a way to “give change”.
- The character Imoguiri.
- A former administration employee.
- Is told that this meal would give everyone if everyone took what was necessary for their daily diet.
Goring, the main protagonist of the plot, experienced the delights of the upper floors and the horrors of the lower floors. When he’s on the sixth floor, he has the idea of allowing the people downstairs to access the food. To do this, convince. Baharat, his current containment partner, to ration the banquet violently so that there is a “revolution. “That’s why, for their good ideal, they engage in fights with many prisoners and kill many of them. One of the confines says they have to, convince people and use the panna cotta (Italian dessert) as a message, taking it intact upstairs. But the strategy of asking politely doesn’t work. And more blood is shed.
Arriving at the 333rd floor, Goring and his partner meet a girl, who is believed to be the daughter of another prisoner who lived daily on the floors, so they give her the panna cotta and tell her that the girl is the message. The film ends with this girl, on the upstream platform, without showing what’s going on in the end, but didn’t that show up?
For me the girl was just an illusion of Goring, he was already dead and what went up was not the girl, it was dessert, there is a scene just before he shows the chef fighting with his pastry chefs to see that the panna cotta had hair. In other words: for him, the panna cotta came back because no one wanted to eat it with disgust for his hair. Remember, the kitchen staff had no idea what was going on in the well. And Imoguiri herself had already said that the children did not enter prison and that when she recorded the alleged mother she arrived alone with a single ukulele, so nothing has changed in the mechanics of the place, the message was misunderstood.
Goring, who entered the well of their own free will, quit smoking and read Don Quixote?He ended up embracing a utopia and believed that he was fighting for something noble, as well as the hero of his book who believed that “good service makes God who removes such a bad race from the face of the earth. “then he struggled with the windmills, thinking they were giants.
Revolutions are a utopia and are not able to end inequalities in the world. Many revolutions have occurred and those who have expressed support for the disadvantaged and against maintaining the status quo have finally created a new status quo. oppression ended up creating oppression to fight for his ideal. As Orwell writes in “The Animal Revolution,” pigs led the agricultural revolution to free animals from agricultural tyranny, but then pigs and men could no longer be distinguished.
According to the scriptures, poverty is the result of sin and will not be eliminated until Jesus finally returns. Therefore, poverty will persist as long as men’s hearts are ruled by sin. In the account of the Fall, in Genesis 3, there is a curse that falls on man. The land becomes hostile, produces thorns and thistles (v. 18). Man will have to work hard to earn a living (v. 19), prospering in this scenario is very difficult. It was the event of the Fall of Man that made inequality the standard in a now corrupt world. For this reason, in Scripture, the phrase according to which the poor will always be present in this world is present in both wills (Dt 15,11 and Mt 26,11).
This is not to say that Christianity corroborates social inequalities, it simply tells us that the drug that is spreading to end inequality is a placebo. God loves justice and identifies with the vulnerable. And it is Christ’s prerogative to put an end to all pain, to all oppression, for he will destroy sin forever (Apoc. 21: 1-4). It is up to Christians to work on social commitment, not astonished by Quixotes dreams, but with the prism of the Gospel, to see the needy with a look of mercy and serve him as Christ who came to serve and not to be served. . Our work to mitigate the effects of poverty will be constant, we are simply not going to eradicate it, because it is a mesianic prerogative. Let us work while we wait for the consumption of your kingdom of justice.
[1] CERVANTES, Miguel de. Don Quixote de La Mancha 1605. Chapter VII. Nova Cultural (2002). Translation of the Viscounts of Castilho and Azevedo.