Nietzsche sows the world

Robb 2022-11-18 22:41:15

When I saw Alex meditating on a cross chair by the lake, I thought, isn't this Nietzsche! Various signs confirm my feelings: the silence of faith (people around me believe in Christ), strong vitality (the "ability" of the body), the wildness in the agitation (the momentary eruption of cheating), the most important thing is that he can see through it at a glance Suzanne's empty life. As a person without faith, his vitality is so powerful and his deep warmth makes me fall.
In fact, Alex has never left life itself, stealing, fighting, robbery, cheating, all his actions are full of vitality, and sometimes flashes of rationality (deliberately planning to escape, robbery) and warmth (no gunshots) Dropping bullets, and Susannah's politeness), constantly abandoning the false life (giving up working for the false boss of the brothel)
Alex's girlfriend represents love, which is his belief that connects him to the real life, with The real God connects (her premonitions and constant prayers before the robbery)
eventually Alex returns to the countryside as if he never left. He is connected to the real earth at one end, and sows the seeds of faith and life for the empty lives of police officer Robert and his wife Susannah.
And he himself was deeply in the whirlpool of hatred, until Robert questioned him by the lake, then he realized that this suffering was destined, it was the gift of God, when he threw the stone into the lake, everything was relieved, He was saved. It is obvious here that the director was influenced by Yasujiro Ozu (in fact, the picture, sound and plot arrangement of the whole film can be seen).
When Susannah talks to him at the end of the credits, Alex's face is so calm, like a dead ashes, reflecting the radiance of God.

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Revanche quotes

  • [repeated line]

    Robert: I aimed at the tires.

  • Grandfather Hausner: You should get married. A man needs a woman or he gets potty. You'll find one easily the way you work.

    Alex: You think chopping wood impresses women?

    Grandfather Hausner: They notice a man who can work. Won't be any different nowadays.