Lust for Life
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You are now qualified
for evangelical work...
under the auspices of the Belgian
Committee of the Messengers of the Faith.
May the Lord guide you
and sustain you in all your ways.
Congratulations, Dr. Bosman.
A very creditable group of young men.
Now about this
other young man, Dr. Bosman.
Are you sure he's quite hopeless?
Gentlemen, I've trained a great
many students in evangelical work...
but never in my life
have I come across a case quite like this.
He is completely unable
to speak extemporary.
He prepares long and obscure sermons
which he's unable to memorize...
and has to read
like a stumbling and inarticulate child.
Now, gentlemen, can we send
that kind of man out into the field...
to represent our society?
Dr. Peeters, I think that's conclusive.
Dr. Bosman, ask him to come in, please.
Mr. Van Gogh, we have Dr. Bosman's
report on your progress here.
- In view of what he's told us...
- You understand...
if your teacher feels
that you're unqualified...
this committee cannot give you
an appointment.
We regret it more than we can say.
Gentlemen, I think that concludes
Committee business for today.
Mr. Van Gogh, do you feel that the
Committee were unjust in their decision?
- No, sir.
- We did what we had to do...
in view of your records.
- Yes, sir.
- Come here.
Your father is a minister, is he not?
I'm not trying to put myself
on a level with my father.
I only hoped in some way
to follow in his footsteps.
Yet, until a year ago...
you showed no inclination or desire
to follow your father's calling.
Believe me, this is something I have to do.
I want to help the unfortunates.
I want to bring them the word of God.
Even if I'm not qualified,
there must be some way I can serve.
Somewhere no one else wants to go?
I'll do anything. Only use me. Use me!
Come here.
- Do you know this part of the country?
- No.
It's a coal-mining region, the Borinage.
There exist no more miserable people
on the face of the earth...
than the miners who live there.
If you really mean what you said
about wanting to help the unfortunates...
here's your chance.
"has more storms than any others.
"Life is a struggle here below.
"Yet out of our sufferings...
"God teaches us higher things.
"He wills..."
"He wills that man should live humbly...
"and go through life
not reaching after lofty aims...
"but fitting himself to the lowly
and learning from the Gospels...
"to be meek, simple of heart."
Father, we pray to thee
to keep us from evil and despair.
Feed us with the bread
that does not perish, which is thy word.
O Lord, amen.
Mister!
- I don't know what your name is, but...
- Ducrucq.
Why did you leave?
Did I say something wrong?
I saw you leave.
What did I say that offended you?
Just because it's Sunday...
you don't expect us to listen
to the kind of pious bilge...
- you gave us just now.
- Bilge?
Look, I worked all week on that sermon.
Listen, mister. Every now and then,
somebody comes here from the outside...
and tries to help us.
They mean well. So do you, probably,
but that doesn't help us at all, does it?
I want to bring you the word of God.
- What can I do? Tell me.
- I don't know.
Help me. Help me
to understand you people...
to know you. Take me into your homes
where you live.
We don't live here.
We only come here to sleep.
Down there, 2,000 feet underground,
that's where we live.
Can I go down? Take me.
- Will you take me down?
- Sure, I can arrange it.
Be here in the morning when I go to work.
At 4:
00.just as much as you are.
And I've been going down for 33 years.
- How old is that child?
- Eleven.
- How long has she been working here?
- A year.
Her father was killed in the explosion.
Listen, mister. Every now and then,
somebody comes here from the outside...
and tries to help us.
They mean well. So do you, probably,
but that doesn't help us at all, does it?
Ducrucq.
Come down! Somebody...
Why don't you come down
and wait with us?
What are you waiting for?
I've got a blanket in there
for one of the wounded, and some bread.
What about you?
Wait for me.
Van Gogh.
I see you don't remember us.
From the Committee
of the Messengers of the Faith.
I'm glad you've come. Did you bring
food and clothes for the families?
- Families?
- Another accident?
- You didn't know?
- I'm sorry to hear it.
- Were there many lost?
- Six.
- Four men, two children, 28 injured.
- Terrible.
I'll see what we can do.
It's unfortunate our visit
should have come at this time.
But it was Rev. Peeters' wish.
The purpose of our coming here
is an inspection.
Excuse me, gentlemen. I'll be right back.
- Just what is the meaning of this?
- You receive an allowance.
Why have you chosen to live in the most
wretched, filthy shack in this village?
Because we have no right to spread
the word of God to these people...
unless we suffer as they do.
You yourself are unclean.
Your clothes are ragged and dirty.
There are people here
who have no clothes.
Do you mean to tell us
you actually sleep on this dirt and straw...
like a beast of the field? You,
the spiritual leader of the community?
I gave my bed to a sick woman
who needed it more than I.
You are new in this work.
I have no doubt you mean well.
But by your behavior, you've degraded
the dignity of the church...
- whose representative you are.
- Have you no sense of decency?
Don't you understand
that if the clergy is to be respected...
I don't care to be respected!
I'm trying to live like a true Christian.
I'm not going to worry about how I sleep.
Look at the fresh graves of the children
in the cemetery.
Scrub floors and pick coal
with the women.
with the blood and sweat of dying miners.
Then come here
and lecture me about Christianity!
Hypocrites!
But you must have heard of him.
He came here about a year ago
as a preacher. Vincent van Gogh.
Yes, mister.
You'll find him in the little shack.
Vincent.
Who is it?
It's Theo.
- Vincent, what have you done to yourself?
- Theo.
What's happened to you?
I was sick for a while,
but I'm all right now.
Doesn't anyone look after you?
- I'd better go and get you some food.
- Don't go. Stay and talk.
- Where's the nearest place where I can...
- Please don't go, Theo.
It's been such a long time.
What are we going to do about you?
to come and find you.
- For months he's not heard from you.
What right have you to decide that?
Cut yourself off from everybody,
even from me.
You've become a stranger.
You've changed.
I haven't changed, Theo.
Outwardly, perhaps, but inside me,
I still want the same things.
What things?
in the old days.
To be of use, to work,
to bring something to the world.
Do you think this is the answer?
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Submitted on August 05, 2018
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