What matters is ability, Reivew on Fitzcarraldo

People with a colonial mentality can't read this film. All they see are deception, exploitation, and exploitation. This film is not about the conquest between people, but the conquest between people and things. The white people did not take advantage of the natives. Everyone was equal before nature. The white people did not force the Indians to serve them. On the contrary, they could be killed by the Indians at any time. But the Indians did not kill them after all. It was not because the Indians believed in the God preached by the whites, nor was it because they believed in their own legend of the White God. They just became as crazy as the whites. After paying the price of their deaths, they Decided to get this ship up the mountain. As for its original purpose, it doesn't matter to everyone. The only thing that matters is this matter, and this matter must be completed. Just like the story of Niagara Falls that Fitzgerald later told, does a waterfall have any meaning? It doesn't make much sense, but I'm here, I saw it, I've done such an awesome thing, that's the whole point. Perhaps its significance is that it can be told to future generations that we once dragged a steamship over a mountain, and the significance of this event is like once covering a pyramid, a kind of performance art.

You can try to tow an aircraft carrier across the Himalayas, and it will go down in history.

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