Nietzsche and Beratar

Albertha 2022-04-06 09:01:06

After my reading of Nietzsche came to an end, I watched Beratar's "The Horse of Turin". At first, I was only attracted by the name. Later, I felt that Beratar was really a person who understood Nietzsche in particular, and he was amazing. But I didn't think so at the beginning, because after reading it, I felt that it had nothing to do with Nietzsche's philosophical thought, or even anti-Nietzsche. If there is any agreement, I guess Beratar used "the work of sealing the border" to express what Nietzsche said: "To have nothing to say is a pleasure and a right, because having nothing to say is precisely the condition for something rare or rare to be said. It is not interference that is intolerable." , but a meaningless proposition." But if it were just that, it would actually be contradictory to making a film, because a film is already an expression. I read a lot of movie reviews that day, and one of them impressed me. It is said that Bellatar also left a question for the audience at the audience's questioning site: Do you feel weak or strong after watching this movie? He asked this question at least twice. The normal answer is of course weakness, and I think he got that too, but repetition obviously means dissatisfaction with that. So I think I got it wrong, he should have expected a stronger answer. God created the world in six days, and the film only captures the five days when the father and daughter's survival went from bad to worse and their lives gradually died out. I understand it to be the fifth day of "death". Beratar's death of God is not the appearance of man, but the disappearance of man, who has a peculiar kinship with God, because man and God are father and son: when God dies, man cannot but disappear at the same time; is special, always hidden behind the universal evidence of the son. So all post-event universality treats the son equally by dethroning the particularity of the father. Equality between sons can only be achieved by dismissing the master. This is actually Nietzsche's point of view. From another point of view, man is a rope tied between animals and superman, suspended above the abyss. In other words, man is always a dynamic transition, an unfinished bridge hanging in the sky. Animality, or the so-called biological nature, in Darwin's case is the beginning and trembling of a chain, in Freud's case, it has degenerated into the broad base of the pyramid of human nature, and they are all reactionaries. Man is unfinished and needs vector charge. And only by taking all the contingency of fate as a forceful attempt to experience, can a human, an unformed animal, gain vitality and be shaped and improved. Therefore, the process of "death" in the movie is the process of God's death, the process of man's gaining vitality and the process of disillusionment. I think in Nietzsche's theory, nihilism is the basis of all revaluation, And the reassessment of all values ​​is the only way to overcome nihilism. Here, nihilism has been elevated to a very important position in his theory. In fact, I have long felt that Nietzsche's superhuman philosophy is based on complete nihilism. In the depths of his mind, there was this lifeless, void-like dead premise that he strongly criticized, and there was a sense of tragic and solemnity of the rebirth of the phoenix's nirvana. So it can be said that Nietzsche was a secret schizophrenic. Nietzsche said in his collection of letters to his friends: Speak for me, this is absolutely unnecessary and never expected; on the contrary, a curiosity, like facing a strange plant, with a little ironic resistance, in my opinion Come on, this is an incomparably wiser position on the self. I think this is the attitude of my friend Beratar. Of course, just my own opinions.

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  • Narrator: In Turin on the 3rd of January 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche steps out of the doorway of number six, Via Carlo Albert, perhaps to take a stroll, perhaps to go by the post office to collect his mail. Not far from him, the driver of a hansome cab is having trouble with a stubborn horse. Despite all his urging, the horse refuses to move, whereupon the driver - Giuseppe? Carlo? Ettore? - loses his patience and takes his whip to it. Nietzsche comes up to the throng and puts an end to the brutal scene caused by the driver, by this time foaming at the mouth with rage. For the solidly built and full-moustached gentleman suddenly jumps up to the cab and throws his arms around the horse's neck, sobbing. His landlord takes him home, he lies motionless and silent for two days on a divan until he mutters the obligatory last words "Mutter, ich bin dumm!" and lives for another ten years, silent and demented, under the care of his mother and sisters. We do not know what happened to the horse.

  • Bernhard: Everything's in ruins, everything's been degraded, but I could say that they've ruined and degraded everything, because this is not some kind of cataclysm coming about with so-called "innocent" human aid, on the contrary, it's about man's own judgment over his own self, which of course God has a big hand in, or, dare I say, takes part in, and whatever he takes part in is the most ghastly creation that you can imagine, because, you see, the world has been debased, so it doesn't matter what I say because everything has been debased that they've acquired and since they've acquired everything in a sneaky, underhanded fight, they've debased everything, because whatever they touch, and they touch everything, they've debased; this is the way it was until the final victory, until the triumphant end; acquire, debase, debase, acquire; or I can put it differently if you'd like, to touch, debase and thereby acquire, or touch, acquire and thereby debase; it's been going on like this for centuries, on, on and on; this and only this, sometimes on the sly, sometimes rudely, sometimes gently, sometimes brutally, but it has been going on and on; yet only in one way; like a rat attacks from ambush; because for this perfect victory it was also essential that the other side, that is, everything's that's excellent, great in some way and noble, should not engage in any kind of fight, there shouldn't be any kind of struggle, just the sudden disappearance of one side meaning the disappearing of the excellent, the great, the noble, so that by now the winners who have won by attacking from ambush rule the earth and there isn't a single tiny nook where one can hide something from them because everything they can lay their hands on is theirs, even things that they can't reach but they do reach are also theirs; the heavens are already theirs and theirs are all our dreams; theirs is the moment, nature, infinite silence; even immortality is theirs, you understand?; everything, everything is lost forever, and those many nobles, great and excellent just stood there, if I can put it that way; they stopped at this point and had to understand and had to accept that there is neither God nor gods, and the excellent, the great and the noble had to understand and accept this right from the beginning, but, of course, they were quite incapable of understanding it, they believed it and accepted it but they didn't understand it; they just stood there, bewildered but not resigned until something, that flash on the mind, finally enlightened them, and all at once they realized that there is neither God nor gods; all at once they saw that there is neither good nor bad; then they saw and understood that if this was so then they themselves did not exist either; you see, I reckon this may have been the moment when we can say that they were extinguished, they burnt out; extinguished and burnt out like the fire left to smolder in the meadow; one was the constant loser, the other was the constant victor; defeat, victory, defeat, victory; and one day, here in the neighborhood I had to realize and I did realize that I was mistaken, I was truly mistaken when I thought that there had never been and could never be any kind of change here on earth; because, believe me, I know now that this change has indeed taken place.