world? Hell? God?

Kylee 2022-03-25 09:01:23

In the end what is hell, what is religion, what is God, and what can he bring us. This movie does his deep probing.

The person who lives in the isolated, dark basement, has he experienced a life like hell? Can't stand, can't walk, can't speak, can't write, just food and water, and the horse, a wooden horse with a silk scarf around it. Suddenly thrown into this world, this world has faith, aesthetics, noble and lowly, flowers, birds, fish and insects, and people. His natural love for life, the concept of equality regardless of species, casual music, contempt for worship, and his hierarchical behavior seem to be gods without expressions or words. No one understands him, only one wants to destroy him, because he does not obey the illusions of the group, but only nature and truth. That sentence "how far the apple rolls is determined by the apple" is precisely the gods that people who sing the hymn cannot understand, and it is also the art and beauty that the noble mayors cannot understand.

In the end, like the beginning of his own "life", the blind prophet eventually led people out of the desert, but the story continued in ignorance, because his brain was dug out and thought it was a different species.

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Extended Reading
  • Jaden 2022-04-21 09:03:46

    Herzog's masterpiece is very critical of Western modern civilization. With an interloper in a civilized society as a clue character, he deeply satirizes and criticizes religion, philosophy, culture, class, etc. Very sharp, 8.5 points.

  • Eula 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    One of the reasons to love movies//Everyone is against everyone for their own gods//Humans have always been afraid of honesty and good at lying//Lonely "outsiders" who enter the so-called mature civilized world are mostly here to "suffer" this prejudiced Society continues to function in its peculiar way, and the parts of human beings that are born with but are not necessary for society are polished and exhausted a little bit // "What are we as human beings?"

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser quotes

  • Professor Daumer: Kaspar, what's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?

    Kaspar Hauser: It feels strong in my heart... The music feels strong in my heart... I feel so unexpectedly old...

    Professor Daumer: You've been such a short time in the world, Kaspar...

    Kaspar Hauser: Why is everything so hard for me? Why can't I play the piano like I can breathe?

    Professor Daumer: In the two short years you have been here with me, you have learned so much! The people here want to help you make up for lost time.

    Kaspar Hauser: The people are like wolves to me.

    Professor Daumer: No. You mustn't say that...

  • Kaspar Hauser: It seems to me that my coming into this world was a very hard fall.