Ernst & the Light

CinemaSerf

The distinctly earthy “Ernst” (Jens Jørg Spottag) has just landed and called his wife before setting off on the drive home. It’s a pretty miserable evening and so he stops to pick up an hitchhiker en route. This fellow claims to be Jesus. Yes, that Jesus. Of course, “Ernst” is highly dubious but as their trip proceeds he starts to wonder if his passenger really is whom he claims to be - and that’s when the conversation starts to get quite peppery. Many of the questions posed are those you might ask yourself, not least about the role of him and his dad and just how they might be relevant two millennia on when mankind may, indeed, need salvation - though probably not from a man who speaks in the sort of biblical-style riddles that wouldn't engage many modern day sceptics. It’s very quirkiness is what makes it funny. That and the expressions on the face of Spottag as the Kroner gradually drops, and of course it doesn’t shy away from taking aim at man’s new divinity: technology. If everyone had been like "Ernst" at the time, I don’t think Christianity would ever have got off the ground!