engineer_aakramm
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This is an excellent movie, it is one of the most disgusting films I have ever seen,
It claims to be as low as life itself and as humanity !!
When Voltaire wrote Candid he had this same idea in mind, also when Nietzsche wrote Zarathustra, the human worms.. only here it is the human pigs and human rats ... etc.
We see here also rage and despite against all human values and beliefs, which points to some psychological grave troubles and disorders of the lowest kind, and the fact is such patterns do exist in accordance with past nasty experiences in our world.
This film is the revenge of a real tormented or a real sarcastic soul, As for the technological details: The operatic themes, the light, the landscapes, and the robotic coarse actors .. They were all very good and served the idea well.
Eating, drinking, sex, excreting etc.. are all what men, women. Animals can feel and enjoy !!
And this movie condemn all these activities as the sign and means of human evil.
Ours is a very low world, says the movie.
A more talented work on the line would be De Ce Trag clopotele Mitica or Why Are The Bells Tolling Mitica by Lucian Pintilie.
When Voltaire wrote Candid he had this same idea in mind, also when Nietzsche wrote Zarathustra, the human worms.. only here it is the human pigs and human rats ... etc.
We see here also rage and despite against all human values and beliefs, which points to some psychological grave troubles and disorders of the lowest kind, and the fact is such patterns do exist in accordance with past nasty experiences in our world.
This film is the revenge of a real tormented or a real sarcastic soul, As for the technological details: The operatic themes, the light, the landscapes, and the robotic coarse actors .. They were all very good and served the idea well.
Eating, drinking, sex, excreting etc.. are all what men, women. Animals can feel and enjoy !!
And this movie condemn all these activities as the sign and means of human evil.
Ours is a very low world, says the movie.
A more talented work on the line would be De Ce Trag clopotele Mitica or Why Are The Bells Tolling Mitica by Lucian Pintilie.
This story discusses perhaps the most important issue in human behavior, i.e. SUBMISSION.
It is this characteristic in our human psyche that causes most of our grave problems especially wars.
And so it's understandable why such a research or a movie shall irritate and anger many people,
It touches and uncovers the lowest in human nature.
The herd nature, the slave nature, and the glorifying of power,
The movie is a good work but it could have had a harsher tone.
Today I finally watched this movie with English subs, This movie looked bigger to me when all its dialogue was just a guess, when I first watched it, it was the Cairo festival the early 80's. I was a teenager, with good knowledge only of English, and the movie had no subtitles, by the middle of the show I said to myself: That is the best movie I ever seen, It was the transitions of the camera between the absolute and gross absurdity of a colorful human play and the gravity and silence of the horizon that made a distinction for this movie, almost all works centers about something, some meaning,
but this work centers about the idea of nothing?!which is the whole thing... all existence.
the idea of how trivial and frivolous all human desires and intentions are , a man brawling madly after a man to tell him : "don't slap me"!!!? a patriot shouting about patriotism while naked in a public bath !!? a man crying for the death of his dearest fellow, another man drinking in the honor of the occasion then a cow's mouth is chewing a branch in a lengthy shot, no big difference between most (seemingly) serious human emotions and the stomach emotions of a cow. (no exclamation needed!!) Three strong shots count: the sudden halt of the carnival(human life) and start of a serene but dirty landscape followed by the bells tolling, The dressed dog looking from the window in awe while the cast are singing carelessly out of tune opera, as if the dog was feeling something serious!, the dirty nature again with the shouting of a man's death and then the display of a white dog laying dead, then the zombie walk of the men in a slow rush to express the triviality of their life ending by death, (existence and what does it matter)
finally the carriage slipping into mist in a sign of drifting into eternity at last, but the director then ruins even that only possible meaning of humanity by entering himself into the camera shot talking in a microphone, by that confirming that even what could be called human destiny or eternity is also mediocre, an existence deprived of all meaning, why are they tolling the bells for? there is no such a thing as why, no reasons exist, why an onion?! an onion is just an onion , it could have been any thing else. The bells are tolling just because they have ropes attached to them, when it is moved the bell moves with it and ring, that is the whole story nothing else, not births not weddings, not funerals, not any human business that is the truth of it they toll because the ropes were pulled, and why? that's it because they are there! The ants living on the elephant's body , they cannot picture the whole elephant, but yet it seems possible occasionally.
but this work centers about the idea of nothing?!which is the whole thing... all existence.
the idea of how trivial and frivolous all human desires and intentions are , a man brawling madly after a man to tell him : "don't slap me"!!!? a patriot shouting about patriotism while naked in a public bath !!? a man crying for the death of his dearest fellow, another man drinking in the honor of the occasion then a cow's mouth is chewing a branch in a lengthy shot, no big difference between most (seemingly) serious human emotions and the stomach emotions of a cow. (no exclamation needed!!) Three strong shots count: the sudden halt of the carnival(human life) and start of a serene but dirty landscape followed by the bells tolling, The dressed dog looking from the window in awe while the cast are singing carelessly out of tune opera, as if the dog was feeling something serious!, the dirty nature again with the shouting of a man's death and then the display of a white dog laying dead, then the zombie walk of the men in a slow rush to express the triviality of their life ending by death, (existence and what does it matter)
finally the carriage slipping into mist in a sign of drifting into eternity at last, but the director then ruins even that only possible meaning of humanity by entering himself into the camera shot talking in a microphone, by that confirming that even what could be called human destiny or eternity is also mediocre, an existence deprived of all meaning, why are they tolling the bells for? there is no such a thing as why, no reasons exist, why an onion?! an onion is just an onion , it could have been any thing else. The bells are tolling just because they have ropes attached to them, when it is moved the bell moves with it and ring, that is the whole story nothing else, not births not weddings, not funerals, not any human business that is the truth of it they toll because the ropes were pulled, and why? that's it because they are there! The ants living on the elephant's body , they cannot picture the whole elephant, but yet it seems possible occasionally.