In this article, we’ll talk about the meaning of the word "Apostate", feature films in the names of which it is present. We also talk about the Roman emperor, who was nicknamed the apostate. The poet A. Pushkin in his work "Eugene Onegin" calls his hero "an apostate of stormy pleasures."
About the word
So, an apostate is a person who has refused something. Even those who have changed their beliefs fall under this definition.
A person who abandons his religion is considered an apostate. Those who stop believing in God are called an apostate.
Associations and synonyms, adjectives and verbs
The word "apostate" often has a negative meaning. Adjectives such as “vile”, “dirty”, “disgusting”, “vile”, “blinded,” miserable, “impudent”, “despicable”, “low”, “vile”, “cowardly”, “treacherous.” Also this word is supplemented by adjectives “glorified”, “noble”, “worthy”, “true”, “persecuted”, “in love”, “honest”.
In its meaning, the word "renegade" is close to him.
For many in everyday life, the following words are associated with the word “apostate”: “audacity”, “Christianity”, “messenger”, “homeland”, “faith”, “edification”, “sin”, “church”, “oath”, "monk".
Mostly this definition is used in the field of religion and general vocabulary. Sometimes it is also used in colloquial expressions and business vocabulary.
Films, historical person
The apostate was called the emperor Julian, who lived in the III century, who refused Christianity. In his work, Roman Stories, Julian is described as a talkative person who loves fame and is prone to superstition. The same book says that Julian issued good decrees, but he was short-sighted, forbidding those who adhered to the Christian religion to engage in teaching activities. Julian died during a campaign in the capital of Persia, at the Battle of Marange. One of the emperor’s friends suggested that Christians were involved in his death, but historians today do not regard this version as wealthy.
"The Apostate" is a film created in collaboration with Soviet, German and Austrian filmmakers in 1987. In this story, Professor Edward Miller managed to make a device for copying living organisms. The genius creates a copy of himself, which he will soon regret, because his double, distinguished by cruelty and selfishness, will want to sell the professor’s invention to military structures, which will be able to further use it to create ruthless killers.
In 2006, director Martin Scorsese shot the thriller The Departed. The film tells about two young policemen, one of whom is a representative of the criminal world, rooted in law enforcement agencies, and the second is a servant of the law, who has become his own person in the circle of mafiosi.