He has a sensitive mind. When Kaspar was taken from the dark cellar to the human world on the ground, after saying goodbye to the little wooden horse that had accompanied him for many years, he was taken from the horse shed of the cavalry regiment commander to a high tower to live alone. At the same time, a commoner taught him simple life knowledge such as how to eat - before taking him out of the cellar, his father only taught him to write his name, say a simple sentence and walk.
When the hostess handed the little baby in the cradle to Kaspar to try to hug, he silently shed two lines of tears and said, "Mom, I seem to be far away from everything." Such a weak baby, who expresses infinite vitality with crying, gave Kaspar a great touch when he first came into contact with human society—the touch from a real and vivid life—and opened up his long-sleeping heart. He expresses his inner feelings in simple and poetic sentences.
The sound of the piano at the professor's house made Kaspar shed tears. He said, "I feel so strong in my heart, I feel a very strong music melody in my heart, and I feel strangely old", and asked: "Why is everything right? It's all that hard for me? Why can't I play the piano as easily as I can breathe?"
He is also a poet at times. Kaspar and his companions escaped from the circus into the wild when the caretaker was not looking. Finally, when the professor found him in a warehouse, he said: "I want to fly like a knight and fight on that bloody battlefield"; deeply feeling the horror and coldness of the human world, he said: "Man is like a man to me. Like a wolf"; he is also human, with the loneliness and emptiness of his emotional and spiritual world: "My bed is the only place in the world that makes me happy", "I came to this world a serious mistake."
He is also often full of wisdom in his life. He and the professor discuss the philosophical question of the proximity of the tower and the room in the tower, as in "Two Children's Debate"; like a sociologist and an anthropologist, he talks to the maid: "Why women are only allowed to do What about food and laundry?" When people try to reason something with rigorous rationality and logic, and make Kaspar accept such "facts" and "truths", the actual situation of events in life is beyond the ideal situation of scholars, Embarrassing them, Kaspar spied the laws and wisdom of a better life beyond reason.
The director, who is sharp-eyed, deeply thoughtful, and has a serious creative attitude, chooses "mirror" characters like Kaspar as the main object of portrayal, and tries his best to explore (the beautification of artistic techniques does not exclude) the beautiful things in his human nature, trying to give the real life Civilized people use warnings and reminders. When Kaspar was brought into the human world, he gradually became more like a human being, and more and more revealed the wisdom, innocence, frankness, love of life, aversion to falsehood, harmony with nature, etc. hidden in human beings. No one had ever taught him these things on purpose, and he had it in him—just as he clearly felt human loneliness at night. And civilized people who have a wealth of knowledge or power, professors, doctors, theologians, medical scientists, marquis, etc., often cannot understand him. Soldiers experimented with human swordsmanship and tried to provoke him, the scene really looked like "playing the harp to the ox", and the graceful swordsmanship became superfluous and comical; the regiment commander eventually turned him over to the circus and gave him a government license display certificate. He accepted the curious gazes of the people and the exaggerated words of the circus narrator; the Marquis used his vacation experience as an elegant talk in the upper class, and Kaspar did not play Mozart in front of everyone, and then weaved it in one place alone. Sweater inevitably surprised him and asked: "What kind of politeness is this"; a doctor with rigorous logical thinking, whose rational logic "only accepts inferences, not descriptions" - even if Kaspar's description is more than the doctor's inference. Easy to understand, not inaccurate - the doctor categorically rejected the so-called "description" with "inference"; after Kaspar's death, medical scholars tried to understand what - only by scientific means - so cut with a scalpel He opened his head, took out his brain organs, observed, and asserted: "Deformity" - this simple scientific judgment is pale and powerless for a living life that once existed in the world. The profound knowledge of human beings has not been able to understand all the mysteries of life. This scientific method is not only cruel, but also bordering on stupidity, even arrogance. The Bible records that before the Israelites entered the land of Canaan, God made a covenant with the Israelites in Moab. Moses, who deeply feared God and marveled at the rich wisdom and mysteries of the Creator, said: "The secret things belong to the LORD our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever" (The Bible Deuteronomy 29:29).
The Recorder was also included in the list of objects to be satirized, and he did the following:
1. When Kaspar was scrutinized in the stable. The recorder recorded in detail the letter in Kaspar's hand written by his father, which briefly explained Kaspar's background. The so-called detail means that the recorder keeps interrupting the officer as he reads the letter, striving to be accurate word for word.
Everyone tried their best to shake Kaspar from sleep almost violently, and the recorder recorded the scars people saw on him, the letters they found, etc.
2. On the tower. The head of the regiment and his subordinates discussed what to do with Kaspar outside the door, considering that "maybe we should make him swear an oath before the law". The recorder recorded their discussions and comments on Kaspar, "Neither barbaric nor depraved."
3. During the tower experiment, the recorder recorded Kaspar's reaction to the sword and fire.
4. After the circus escape incident, the recorder sighed as he walked back from the field: "How ambitious he is, I want to write a report to record this incident".
5. While Kaspar was lying in bed with a head attack, the Recording Officer accompanied the Chief and tried to ask him a few questions, but was refused by the doctor.
6. After Kaspar's body experiment, the recorder happily gave his top hat to the coachman, and said that he was going home, he said to himself: "This is really good, this must be a great service. Good report! Deformities found in Kaspar Hauser's head and liver! Finally we have an explanation for the mysterious man, and no one will ever find anything like this again!"
Kaspar in the human world is the law of life against the law of reason. The people in the lower classes looked on indifferently, treating him as a rare thing, or had an occasional kindness, but it was only temporary; the upper class forced or rejected Kaspar in order to maintain their rationality and civility. No wonder the psalm of David in the Bible says: "The lowly are vain, and the high is a falsehood; put in the scales, they will float; they are all lighter than air" (Bible Psalm 62:9) .
Kaspar has described two of his dreams. One: "I saw the sea, I saw the mountain, there were many people on the mountain, it was like a religious ceremony. The fog was thick and I couldn't see very clearly, but the person at the top died." Second: A blind leader led a caravan. After a difficult journey in the desert, the blind leader led everyone to a northern city. He said: "I don't know what happened later." He said that his dream was just the beginning of a story. In fact, these two dreams can point to a complete fable, a fable about human life: from the state of existence to the inevitable death. Just as the Bible records about the blindness of the human condition: At that time, the disciples approached him and said, "Do you know that the Pharisees were dissatisfied when they heard this?" Jesus replied, "Everything that is planted, unless it is What my heavenly Father plants will be plucked up. Leave them alone! They are the blind leading the way, and if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the pit." (The Gospel of Matthew 15:12-14); Another is recorded after Jesus healed a man who was born blind: Jesus heard that they cast him out, and when he met him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of God?" He replied, "Lord, Who is the Son of God that I should believe in him?" Jesus said, "You have seen him, and it is he who is talking to you." He said, "Lord, I believe!" and worshipped Jesus. Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that the invisible may see, and the seeing blinded." The Pharisees who were with him heard this and said, "Are we also Are you blind?" Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We can see,' therefore your sin remains." (Bible-John 9: 35-41) The inevitable death of mankind: Jesus said to them, "You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, and I am not of this world. Therefore I say to you, you To die in your sins. If you do not believe that I am the Christ, you will die in your sins."
"Everyone loves himself, God opposes all", Herzog speaks through Kaspar's mouth: When I look around me and look at the people around me, there will really be such a feeling: God will definitely oppose them. "Every man is for himself", first of all, man's own life is in an embarrassing or tragic state of sin, unable to save himself and will inevitably lead to death, "because all people have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. "("Bible • Romans" 3:23) Everyone who exists in the world, without exception, came to the world as a creature in ignorance and unknown - with a created body, endowed with Breath - there is a created world that has already existed. It is not that people are intentionally indifferent to other beings, just because the creatures far away from the Creator deviate from the laws of the Creator and the standards set by the Creator for life. For example, human error will be more than The things that are still light in life are more important than one's own life or the life of others, and spend their whole life to pursue it. Therefore, in the "Bible" Jesus said: "I have come that people may have life, and have it more abundantly. "("Bible • John" 10:10) The critical films of many masters all reveal the lack of the human soul and show that people know nothing about the mysteries related to the nature of life. Talk about such criticism There are quite a few masterpieces of sexuality. At first glance, it may have the effect of inspiring or slamming the head, but when the audience walks out of the theater and enters life, everything is still indifferent, and there is nothing fundamental or fundamental about it. As James said in the Book of James: "He who hears the word but does not do it is like a man who looks in a mirror and sees himself as he is, and when he sees it, and leaves, he immediately forgets his How does it look. "(The Bible • James 1:23-24) - Compare this with the words, and there is a difference between the two, because James is referring to the ability to empower people to act and to bring about inner and There is a way of life that changes on the outside.
People may be indignant when they watch it, but over time it is like a soup that stops boiling. When people look forward to the appearance of such films, they will be like opium. They hope that the criticism will be stronger, the thinking will be more profound, and the reality will be more cruel and bloody. Some people criticize, others watch it, making it a paralysis and temporary comfort in people's ordinary life, such as drinking poison to quench their thirst, covering their ears and stealing bells - as if criticizing the ugliness can add righteousness to oneself, or it is to verify and comfort oneself. Not reaching the "100 steps" - the problem is that not only do we not see our "50 steps", we often laugh at the "100 steps", and we also forget the essence of "50 steps" and "100 steps" Same.
If people always hold the mirror of movies and just keep looking at themselves, they will only see themselves in the end—just see some of their surfaces clearly. If you don't move towards fundamental redemption, people's spiritual realm will only reach a certain degree of self-recognition and self-reflection. From reflection, it ends in reflection; from critique, it ends in critique. "The mean is the pass of the mean, and the noble is the epitaph of the noble." If redemption does not exist, the only remaining self-criticism and reflection will be the pass and epitaph of the human film world.
Decades after the film came out, America, on the other side of the German ocean, used a man-made myth about a character whose experience was completely opposite to that of Kaspar to appease the suffering of its own people during the decades of vicissitudes. Historical Pain: Forrest Gump, and promoting it to moviegoers elsewhere in the world.
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