The director's resume says that he started watching the complete works of Marx and Engels at the age of 20, which is credible. The film opens with "The Debate on Forest Theft Laws" as proof. I teased out the logical steps of that debate to express admiration that I cannot put into words.
1. If the felled tree is stolen from someone else, the felled tree is the product of its owner
2. The felled trees are already processed trees
3. The natural connection to property has given way to artificial connections
4. Whoever steals the felled trees is stealing property
5. Picking up dead trees is the opposite, because nothing here is separated from the property. What is detached from property is really only what has detached from it
6. The person who steals the forest makes a judgment on the property without authorization; and the person who picks up the dead tree executes the judgment made by the nature of the property itself.
7. The owner of the tree has only the tree itself, and the tree no longer has the branches that fall from it.
The same is true for the fact that if a worm inside an apple causes it to wither and fall off, the fruit tree no longer has it.
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