Forgiveness, Responsibility, And Faith In Kingdom Of Heaven

The movie Kingdom Of Heaven is based in Jerusalem in 1184. During this time Jerusalem had a population greater than any European city, and had enormous cross culture significance;Judaic, Muslim, and Christian holy sites coexisted, side by side. Each believed they had a right to control Jerusalem. Peace in Jerusalem, at this time, seemed impossible. The film depicts the fight for Jerusalem in 1187 from the Christian side of the war and focuses on the political unrest of the religion. Three traits I observed and can relate to are a quest for forgiveness, responsibility, and faith. The movie starts with a poor blacksmith named Bailan, that lived in a village where no one liked him because of his wife's recent suicide. A group of knights come to that village, their leader, Godfrey, turns out to be his father.He asks his son to forgive him for leaving him and his mother, and asks his son if he will go to Jerusalem with him. He tells Bailan that he can pray to god and ask for forgiveness for his wife and his sins. But Bailan declines his offer. Shortly after the priest that buried Bailan's wife tells him that he chopped off his wife's head because she is going to hell for suicide, …show more content…
Godfrey is wounded in battle. Bailan is knighted by his father his father passes on he takes his father's place as baron and takes over his land and holds up the promise he made his father which was to protect all the civilians. While he does this he becomes good friends with the king of Jerusalem who was a leper, dies shortly after. I feel that at first Bailan believed that he was doing these things and protecting the people because he was in need for forgiveness, but towards the end of the movie I felt that Bailan was doing the things because he felt that they were the right thing to do. I felt the same way about St. Johns at first I was mostly because I had to, but I realized that St. Johns is the best for