What matters is ability

Robb 2022-01-11 08:02:48

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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  • Katheryn 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    lonely other. Repeatedly consuming life in meaningless acts like Sisyphus, it's just that Fitzcarraldo finds the meaning of life in the process of sailing on the road. "The person who is obsessed with meaningless things", it is good to have something to say. Don't want to compromise, you can only survive by being paranoid.

  • Retha 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    A mad director used mad actors to make a madman's story, an idealist's adventure, and the collision of primitive rainforest and modern literature and art. It is also in South America. This is a classic work by some outsiders who have the arrogance and the awe of their mysterious desire to conquer, Herzog and Kinski's contradictory combination. Sparkle Roll 6.6 film English dubbing version. After the Blu-ray repair, re-read and change to five stars.

Fitzcarraldo quotes

  • Don Aquilino: The Indians call the rapids Chirimagua, "the angry spirits." Anyone who falls in there is lost. The bare-asses also say the water has no hair to hold on to.

  • Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo': Is this a rubber tree?

    Don Aquilino: Right. "Hevea brasiliensis." They call the rubber tree "caoutchou," "tree that weeps." These bare-asses love flowery language. Gold, they call "sweat of the sun." Bees, "fathers of honey." You know, it's no easy job to discipline them, believe me.