Philosophical View on the Movie "Ninth Day"

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The Ninth Day is a film about World War Two. A priest is sent to a concentration camp, where he faces a lot of challenges. For instance, he witnesses other prisoners being crucified. At some point, the priest is given a break of nine days from the camp. However, the nine days away from the camp are not easy for the priest. Officer Gebhardt asks him to handle a challenging task which he compares to Judas in the Bible. The officer tells the priest that he should use his power to convince the bishop about cooperating with the Nazis. Such put the priest in a dilemma of whether he should betray the church or go back to the camp where he was facing many challenges.
The idea of taking the priest to a concentration camp indicates how an individual’s environment can shape their behavior. The challenges faced in the concentration camp can make an individual vulnerable to any manipulation that would prevent them from going back to the concentration camp. Therefore, the officer knows that the priest has a high chance of betraying the church than an individual who has not faced challenges in the concentration camp. The priests in the camp try to hold a communion while others sing a German beer song to cover up for being believers. Such indicates the level of challenges they were going through in the camp. When Henri, the priest, is released, he finds out that his family is no longer wealthy and lives in a small apartment. Such heightens the pressure on him to hate the Nazis.
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