The reason why the father and daughter returned to the house from the back of the mountain was because they found that there was no way to survive on the other side of the mountain, and the world had no way to escape.
On January 3, 1889, in the square in front of Turing's residence, Nietzsche witnessed a coachman abusing a horse. So he walked forward, hugged the horse's neck and cried bitterly before fainting. Since then, a man who cried out to Superman, proclaimed that God is dead, a man who praised the will to power' life instinct, a giant in the history of philosophy has fallen.
In the Old Testament book of Genesis, God created the world in six days, and Tarr destroyed it in six days.
"The Horse of Turin" tells the hard life of the father and daughter who owned the horse. The father's arm is disabled and he can only rely on his daughter to take care of it. As shown in the film, the daughter boils potatoes, fetches water, and dresses her father. During these six days, the life of the father and daughter went from bad to worse. On the sixth day, the lights went out, the well was dry, and the water ran out, and their lives fell into desperation.
philosopher
The film progresses to an hour, and a third character, a beggar, appears. He asked his father: Why don't you go to the market to buy it? His father told him that the wind had blown away the market long ago. The beggars believe that what has been ruined and eroded is people's making, and it's their own choice. When they touched and possessed these things, he did not deny that God was involved in the decision. He believed that God's creation was terrifying, and everything in this world had fallen, and God and the gods were nothing. Here we can see that the begger is exactly what Tarr represents, and Tarr uses his words as a reference to reveal the apocalyptic tone he set in the film.
minimalist
. The entire film uses only thirty shots, has very little dialogue, and has a simple structure. Most of the composition is only to explain the plot and show the picture. Except for a few ultra-long motion shots, most of the camera movements are in a small range of fixed axis movements indoors. Tarkovsky once wrote: I do not deny the value of color films, but black and white images seem to be more in line with human visual perception. For Tarr, black and white images are also a kind of minimalist expression. He makes the audience abandon their subjective feelings and go deep into the images for philosophical thinking.
In Tarr's films, we often see a man with his back to the camera, sitting in front of a window. It was as if he faced a hopeless world, trapped in a cramped and cramped house, and faced the arrival of death. In "The Horse of Turin", Tarr has simplified all the elements to the extreme. The most typical example is the above picture. The father is facing the howling wind outside the house, and the daughter is eating potatoes with her back to her father. This sense of alienation also represents the difference in beliefs held by the two. The daughter sang the Bible, and the father was more like a defender of the life instinct upheld by Nietzsche. After the well dried up, he made the decision to move, but as Tal said, they found that the other side of the mountain couldn't survive either.
music
Turin Horse by Mihály Víg is a master of minimalism. His music has also been used in many of Tarr's films, and I don't think anyone who's seen it can forget the action scene of his father driving a horse-drawn carriage through the wind. The whole film also uses only one piece throughout. This piece is mainly composed of strings, with the cello as the base, and the viola as the driving force. It is a kind of melody that is repeatedly promoted. The second half of the piece has an organ added to enhance the sense of sadness. At the end of the song, we saw the barren land roaring as if out of control, how could we not feel a sense of depression and suffocation in our hearts?
imagery
Horse: From the first shot, this old horse is marching in the wind, with a wild and primitive state of life. Although it is old, it still has unyielding strength. On the second day, the father decided to go out, but the old horse refused to walk. On the fourth day, the water in the well had dried up, and it chose not to take in water or eat. On the sixth day, the father asked his daughter to eat raw potatoes, and the daughter, like the horse, refused to eat. As an important image in the film, horses play a role in reflecting the life status of father and daughter.
Wind: As a natural existence, when it is weak, it has a refreshing feeling, but when it becomes violent, it can destroy everything. In "Horse of Turin", the wind is a violent existence, it is more like the hand of the creator, and the creator uses these hands to exert his will. For example, after her daughter had sung the Bible, the narrator said: "The storm continued to roar outside the house and swept the earth relentlessly, but there was nothing to stop it now. Only a large cloud of dust lifted by the wind rushed forward wildly, The dry dust swept up by the wind roared like unbridled over the barren land." Is this a miracle? Or Beratar's denial of God? I am more inclined to deny God. In the film, the daughter is passive, and the father cannot live on his own, so she passively takes care of him. still passive. This passivity builds up until the above-mentioned narration sounds, and God either doesn't hear her cry (silent God), or doesn't hear her.
Oil lamp: On the night of the fifth day, my daughter wanted to light the oil lamp, but found that no matter how much she added, it could not be lit. After many unsuccessful attempts, my father decided to rest, and the house fell into darkness, which is what the narrator said: Dead silence falls on the house. In Genesis, it is written: God said, "Let there be light, and there was light. God saw that the light and darkness were good, so he separated the light and the dark." The boundaries are no longer clear, and the world is plunged into chaos.
After watching the movie, this movie left me speechless and choked up. I took a rest and thought for a night before I made this review. "Horse of Turin", as Bellatar's final work, is so pure and extreme, and every frame of its icy picture has a strong power to bring me into that cruel and desperate world. . As Bellatar's final work, it represents a director's philosophical thinking about the world expressed in his own words, and it also represents an artist's responsibility.
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