not anti-Nietzsche

Clarabelle 2022-04-21 09:03:52

It's obviously a very powerful movie. Although I'm sorry, I also doubled the speed, but this movie can't be watched with pure "seeing" eyes, but thinking.

Many of the actions in it are long shots from the back, which are particularly smooth, and even include the shot of sitting on a chair staring at the wind and sand outside the window, and constantly connecting the father and daughter.

It is worth noting that there are several repetitions: First, dressing, the layers of clothing are similar to the figurines that humans put on themselves, the shame that cannot be changed even before the "doomsday" (there are more clips, I feel quite cured. More exciting than vlogs...). The second is the long shot of the action mentioned above, especially the action of pulling the horse at the beginning, horizontal and vertical aerial close-ups, etc. The third is the eating scenes that appear many times, from the different close-ups of the father and the daughter (the father peels the skin very fast, the daughter is slow, symbolizing different tolerance) to the two people together in the same person, to the exchange of positions, to the absence of potatoes The picture of eating two people climaxes.

Background: From the rich man who drank heavily in the wind and dust to buying wine at home, his words to the Bible to the background, including the lights that could not be lit, what he actually said was not a piece of "history", but the future. end. "Man is guilty"

Daughter: Kind, enduring and pure and ignorant image, but caring for her father has taken her from a daughter to a "Virgin". Especially the scene of reading every word of the Bible reveals her identity as a seeker

Whether the father symbolizes Nietzsche is hard to say. Nietzsche's superhuman will does not mean that he can continue to persevere in pain, and it is not a stubborn image. They return to the room where they are being judged for the horse that can no longer walk, and the daughter tenderly but desperately refuses at her father's stern request to "live." Rather than saying that the father is like Nietzsche, it is better to say that he is like the will of universal demands and at the same time the suffering of life itself. The daughter from enduring to despair is the best representative of Nietzsche's spirit.

Some people say that Beratar's purpose is to "anti-Nietzsche", pointing out the limitations of Nietzsche, I don't think he can achieve it. Beratar still looked cruelly at the world with Nietzsche's eyes. What he pointed out was not the flaws in one's philosophy or the disintegration of ice, but Nietzsche's spiritual world. The part that speaks to the world. Beratar himself said: "When you watch the movie, do you get stronger or weaker?"

Regarding the understanding of the number of days in the movie, here is an excerpt: "It is said that God created the world in 6 days, and I imagine an opposite process." Bella Tal said, that is to say, "The Horse of Turin" depicts a world The process of "destruction", the collapse of value, the deprivation of the will to life, everything tends to be barren, and the arrogant wind swept the earth; people tried to escape but failed, and had to return to their original places and wait for death to come. God created the world in six days, on the first day God created light, on the fifth day in the film the light disappeared, on the second day he created water, on the fourth day the water disappeared. This "anti-Genesis" process indicates that the father and daughter on the sixth day have fallen into a chaotic state of "death", just as at the end of the fifth day, the director's narration has already narrated that "death has fallen."

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The Turin Horse quotes

  • Narrator: In Turin on the 3rd of January 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche steps out of the doorway of number six, Via Carlo Albert, perhaps to take a stroll, perhaps to go by the post office to collect his mail. Not far from him, the driver of a hansome cab is having trouble with a stubborn horse. Despite all his urging, the horse refuses to move, whereupon the driver - Giuseppe? Carlo? Ettore? - loses his patience and takes his whip to it. Nietzsche comes up to the throng and puts an end to the brutal scene caused by the driver, by this time foaming at the mouth with rage. For the solidly built and full-moustached gentleman suddenly jumps up to the cab and throws his arms around the horse's neck, sobbing. His landlord takes him home, he lies motionless and silent for two days on a divan until he mutters the obligatory last words "Mutter, ich bin dumm!" and lives for another ten years, silent and demented, under the care of his mother and sisters. We do not know what happened to the horse.

  • Bernhard: Everything's in ruins, everything's been degraded, but I could say that they've ruined and degraded everything, because this is not some kind of cataclysm coming about with so-called "innocent" human aid, on the contrary, it's about man's own judgment over his own self, which of course God has a big hand in, or, dare I say, takes part in, and whatever he takes part in is the most ghastly creation that you can imagine, because, you see, the world has been debased, so it doesn't matter what I say because everything has been debased that they've acquired and since they've acquired everything in a sneaky, underhanded fight, they've debased everything, because whatever they touch, and they touch everything, they've debased; this is the way it was until the final victory, until the triumphant end; acquire, debase, debase, acquire; or I can put it differently if you'd like, to touch, debase and thereby acquire, or touch, acquire and thereby debase; it's been going on like this for centuries, on, on and on; this and only this, sometimes on the sly, sometimes rudely, sometimes gently, sometimes brutally, but it has been going on and on; yet only in one way; like a rat attacks from ambush; because for this perfect victory it was also essential that the other side, that is, everything's that's excellent, great in some way and noble, should not engage in any kind of fight, there shouldn't be any kind of struggle, just the sudden disappearance of one side meaning the disappearing of the excellent, the great, the noble, so that by now the winners who have won by attacking from ambush rule the earth and there isn't a single tiny nook where one can hide something from them because everything they can lay their hands on is theirs, even things that they can't reach but they do reach are also theirs; the heavens are already theirs and theirs are all our dreams; theirs is the moment, nature, infinite silence; even immortality is theirs, you understand?; everything, everything is lost forever, and those many nobles, great and excellent just stood there, if I can put it that way; they stopped at this point and had to understand and had to accept that there is neither God nor gods, and the excellent, the great and the noble had to understand and accept this right from the beginning, but, of course, they were quite incapable of understanding it, they believed it and accepted it but they didn't understand it; they just stood there, bewildered but not resigned until something, that flash on the mind, finally enlightened them, and all at once they realized that there is neither God nor gods; all at once they saw that there is neither good nor bad; then they saw and understood that if this was so then they themselves did not exist either; you see, I reckon this may have been the moment when we can say that they were extinguished, they burnt out; extinguished and burnt out like the fire left to smolder in the meadow; one was the constant loser, the other was the constant victor; defeat, victory, defeat, victory; and one day, here in the neighborhood I had to realize and I did realize that I was mistaken, I was truly mistaken when I thought that there had never been and could never be any kind of change here on earth; because, believe me, I know now that this change has indeed taken place.