The love life of Hitler's "lover"

Lukas 2022-04-22 07:01:54

I accidentally read an article by Cui Weiping - "A Charming Lie", which was written by Riefenstahl, the most famous German female director in the history of film, which suddenly made me want to watch "Triumph of the Will" The impulse for this movie was when I was in school, and I wanted to come and watch it. It’s been so many years.

It is said that the teachers of the film school dare not let the students watch it, hehe~ I am worried that they will become fanatical Nazis.

Going back to this article, even if I knew before that Riefenstahl was also Hitler's "lover" and "accomplice" (only in quotation marks) - I was a little surprised when I read the author's evaluation of her. In the article, I feel With the author's restraint, the words are still full of contempt and criticism of Riefenstahl. She believes that instead of saying that the "Nazi director" chose beauty, it is better to say that she chose a lie. One of the reasons for analyzing her personal growth process is that she lacks a stable and complete love life:

"In my opinion, in the life of Riefenstahl's rising and gaining glory, the biggest loophole is: She has never had a complete emotional life, she has not established a deep emotional connection with anyone around her, and she has not had the opportunity to listen to a person's inner heart for a long time and develop such a habit. She lacks sharing the quietness of life with others Only in these moments, while approaching the hearts of others, is it possible for a person to come to himself, to become familiar with himself, to listen to his own inner voice, to hear the weak and persistent demands of his own conscience, and to find a way to communicate with himself. "

First of all, this person doesn't have the truth of her own life, the truth of her thoughts and feelings... She takes who she wants to be as her true self, and this is just a serious misreading... . . . as soon as the relationship with herself breaks, the person is freed from any truth, whether it is her personal truth or the truth of society."

The reason for quoting the above two paragraphs is because, in my opinion, this is not only the Riefenstahl in the author's mind, which is portrayed by the author through psychological analysis, but also the main point of this long article-to be honest, I do not. I don't know very much about the era of Riefenstahl, and I haven't even seen any of her works, or about her works, but the author's point of view touched me very much, because the author is very calm to share with us Her perspective and method of observing human nature, and I also tried to understand the author's reasons and conclusions, but unfortunately - I really can't understand it at my level of understanding. Because I think if you want to understand historical figures from such a somewhat personal perspective, I am afraid that only with a background similar to Riefenstahl's era, a similar growth environment, a similar personal experience, and the most important thing ~ should be the people around her ~ can do it She made such a judgment, and Professor Cui is obviously not such a person~ In

other words, such a perspective is naturally suitable for a more profound analysis of a person's behavior, but maybe only Riefenstahl herself can summarize herself in this way~ If she wants to Otherwise, go back to the historical background to look at her, because the so-called sincerity and hypocrisy, truth and lies, in the story of Hitler and Riefenstahl, are more about the big era and Hitler. problem, not her problem.

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Extended Reading
  • Vita 2022-03-19 09:01:10

    Clearly a victory for the meeting

  • Lea 2022-03-29 09:01:09

    The film chronicles the imperial congress held in 1934. The grand composition and the rhythmic imagery make Nazism a religiously intoxicating visual rhapsody, and millions of people voluntarily unite with the Führer and are willing to give their lives for the cause. So the film's huge publicity success is "unforgivable".

The Triumph of the Will quotes

  • [first lines]

    subtitle: The documentary of the Reich Party Congress, 1934 - Produced by order of the Führer.

    Opening crawl: On September 5, 1934, 20 years after the outbreak of the World War, 16 years after Germany's Suffering, 19 months after the beginning of the German Rebirth, Adolf Hitler again flew to Nuremberg to review the assembly of his faithful followers.

    crowd: [for more than 20 minutes, there is only one discernible word:] Heil! Heil! Heil!...

    Rudolf Hess: I open the sixth Party Congress in respectful memory of he who has passed on to eternity, Field Marshal and Reich President von Hindenburg...

  • Adolf Hitler: We want this people to be hard, not soft, and you must steel yourselves for it in your youth!