The film, adapted from a true story, was made into a film by Herzog and won the Grand Jury Prize in the main competition unit of the 28th Cannes Film Festival in 1975. In 1828 Casper was thrown into a small town square, with no identity, no communication, and no concept of his surroundings. The townspeople studied it to no avail. He was cited as a spectacle for hunting in the circus. After being taken in by an old teacher, he began to learn all kinds of knowledge. However, he died after being stabbed inexplicably. I lost my mind at the beginning of the film. This is the hard struggle of an ignorant and pure soul in the world. Although he has low intelligence, stiff movements, and rude voice, he has love and more heart, especially in the face of Ya Ya Xue. When he was a slang baby and a kind old teacher, the unique warm emotions of human beings touched his ignorant spiritual world. When he was in the circus, he didn't know how to be ashamed. When he was accepted as a godson by a British nobleman, he gave him advice, which made him have a sense of autonomy and gradually appeared in the real world. A pure natural creature that has not been nurtured by civilization, cultivated by etiquette, or baptized by religion, broke into the world of high-sounding human beings in a sudden way. He instinctively hated religion and rejected the so-called "rational" thinking. He understands the novel world in his own way. He is undoubtedly an anomaly of human beings, so he is destined to not survive in the world, because his existence makes human beings feel the panic of "abnormal", and the breaking of "habit" makes people feel at a loss. Yes, the long history of human beings has made this species of creatures adapt to norms and upbringing. Whoever wants to break the rules of the game can only let him perish. Therefore, Casper is like a prophet sent by God to test human beings and predict human conditions. In the interspersed pictures with ancient colors, there is a mysterious sense of dream, and he uses his "dying eyes" to see before the flood or after the end of the world. , indeed a "European mystery". The "deformed" conclusion of the autopsy made the townspeople ecstatic: "It's fantastic that we finally have an explanation for this weirdo". They return to the world of "normal reason", no longer have to be ashamed to face innocence, and Kasper no longer has to struggle to survive in the world.
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