While in Turin, he hugged a horse and wept bitterly. Is he crying horses or people, I don't know. The whole film is divided into 6 chapters, which correspond to the 6 days when God created the world in the Bible. "It is said that God created the world in 6 days, I imagine a reverse process." Bella Tal said, that is, "The Horse of Turin" depicts a world "destroyed" The process of the collapse of value, the deprivation of the will to life, everything tends to be barren, and the arrogant wind swept the earth; people tried to escape but failed, and had to return to their original places and wait for death to come. This may be the reason why the film lacks the seventh day in Genesis, the Sabbath. These trembling, muddleheaded, distressed and troubled, humble as ants, will never wait for their Sabbath. After "we killed God", we finally get revenge from God. The colors are removed from the screen, leaving only the black and white of life, the monotonous and trivial mechanical repetition. Having lost the connection between the symbol of the meaning of life and the greater narrative that transcends its own realm, the cruel and true nature of life lies before us, a nothingness that no one can deny. When living is just for living itself, I cannot understand the meaning of such a life? When life is just a continuation of lingering, there is nothing but nothingness. This is a fate that even Nietzsche cannot escape. How to cross the abyss of nihilism? We can only call for the birth of new people. The newcomer in the future, Nietzsche's "Superman", can forcefully break free from the shackles of the world with the will to power, and let the free and vigorous will to live freely gallop in the world like a horse with the courage of "revaluing all values". Like Nissos, he uses his life to imagine and create, to sing and dance with passion, and to get drunk in contradictions. Nietzsche is weeping for the suffering of the newcomer. In the dictionary of nature, horses run freely on the grassland with their lives. But after being domesticated, in the dictionary of human society, it becomes the property of the landlord, the car of the knight, the money-making tool of the groom, the means of transportation for the commuters, or the pile of meat that the butcher is waiting for in the market... And when a person is born, doesn't the world regulate him in various ways? Identity relationship, law, religion, education, politics, morality, ethical values... All kinds of shackles are put on the newcomers like harnesses, and people's actions are driven by the whip of the world. In connection with modern society, whether it is the “commodity fetishism” criticized by Marx, the “one-dimensional person” who has lost the ability to criticize and transcend as described by Marcuse, the object as a commodity in Baudrillard’s “consumer society” It is still Foucault's investigation of prisons, schools, and hospitals that he discovered the discipline and punishment of people, that people have passed away, that they have lost their subjectivity, and that they have no self-existence. The horse of Turin is probably the specter of freedom/will to power, everyone is born in chains, and no one is free.
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