When I realized I was doing something ridiculous, I killed myself.

Johan 2022-04-24 07:01:26

The long-shot analysis film at the beginning of "The Horse of Turin" is developed in the black scene and narration. First, it creates a field for the audience, that is, between Nietzsche with a tragic color and a legendary fate and an old horse association. In fact, we have already felt it before we started the video screen, or started to brew a sense of sadness and bleakness. Then the picture unfolds slowly, and the soundtrack is a more prominent key element. Due to the use of long shots at the beginning, the content of the picture is relatively simple, and the audience is more inclined to pay attention to the sound. The film uses a symphony-style background music, without heavy tragic and solemn, it is a kind of sad and sad, even with a bleak atmosphere, the emotional rendering and contrast are stronger at this time. If we pay attention to the visual picture, we will be attracted by this kind of long shot with a degree of relaxation. We use the angle of view to shoot upwards. One advantage of this is that it matches the emotional resonance of the audience, so that the audience is immersed in the continuity of emotions and the continuation of thinking. He does not directly express the high point of emotions, but pays attention to the process of feeling the audience's own emotions. Allow the audience to personally experience the state of mind of horses and grooms. Regarding the main body of the film, I think the horse and the groom should not be separated, they are actually a whole. They are all suffering victims exploited by cruel reality, and they cannot escape the fate of tragedy under the shackles of society. Therefore, in the lens, I think that if the mirror effect is more prominent, the horse and the groom should always be kept in the same picture, so that they have a common frame of expression, such metaphors and connections are more obvious. Nietzsche said at the end: "Mother, I'm so stupid." Perhaps it is also aware of the tragedy of this powerlessness. When we all pity the old horse who was beaten by the whip, how much we have seen the tragic situation of the groom. It seems that the horse is protected, but whether the groom will be severely beaten by his employer or the upper echelons of society, we do not know. Nietzsche finally went crazy. In Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus", he said that there are two types of suicide in modern society, one is physical suicide, they give up the existence of the body; the other is suicide is absurd, spiritual depression , or abnormal.

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  • 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.