The biblical book of Genesis records that God created the world in six days, and Bella Tarr says his "Horse of Turin" shows a process of destruction.
On the first day, the father returned from a ride, the father and daughter had dinner, the daughter took care of the father and changed clothes, and talked at night. Everything was normal and peaceful.
On the second day, I tried to pull the horse out of the house, but the horse began to resist. After failing to go out, he returned to the room to do laundry. A customer came to buy wine. The most concentrated in the whole article appeared. The line—the guest's philosophical account of "the city was destroyed"—although stopped by his father's "Don't talk nonsense, it's all nonsense", the guest then disappeared into the storm with wine in hand, drinking as he walked.
On the third day, the father and daughter got up and drank. The horses start a hunger strike. A carriage full of gypsies came, and the gypsies came to steal the water from the well and were driven away by the father and daughter.
On the fourth day, the well water dried up and there was no water to boil potatoes. Ma'er went on a hunger strike. The father and daughter packed their luggage and prepared to escape, but they turned back halfway. No one knew what they encountered on the way and what made them turn back.
On the fifth day, it was all dark. The father and daughter got up and drank. The horse went on a hunger strike and tried unsuccessfully to light the lamp. There is no light.
On the sixth day, the father and daughter sat at the table, the last fire went out, there was no fire for boiling potatoes, the father and daughter faced the raw potatoes, the father said to the daughter "You have to eat", just like the daughter a few days ago. As you said to the horse.
Nietzsche said in "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", and then Zarathustra said "God is dead", and Bella Tarr's "The Horse of Turin" seems to be a reference to the former. the overthrow, or at least the response. When God died, it was also the beginning of human cognition and transcendence of its own power, the decline of religious power, and the awakening and development of human rational power, which have been vividly displayed in the development of industrial society for hundreds of years. The objects created by their own wisdom and power have more and more energy. From being able to dominate their own lives, human beings gradually dream to dominate everything. In the past, people believed in God, and now, humans believe in themselves. However, this sense of control may be just an illusion. When horses refuse to accept human domination and start walking, humans will find themselves trapped in an island in the storm. When horses refuse to be enslaved by humans, humans will find themselves It is the weaker side, because if a horse loses a man, it becomes its own free self, and if a man loses a horse, a human being is only a weak two-legged person, and cannot even complete self-migration in a storm. Therefore, it seems that human beings should understand that human beings do not deserve what they get, and horses are not born to be human, just as nature does not have a mission to be used by human beings. In fact, the black-and-white images of the film and the way of life of the characters are not modern, and can even be said to be primitive. It seems to place the opposition between man and nature born of industrial civilization to a more primitive state to think about. The so-called "civilization" created by human beings , even the most primitive "civilizations" (such as building wells for water, making fires for fire, raising horses and taming horses), while they constitute the most basic elements of human civilized life, they also create human fragility and loneliness, and we are used to " Inevitably", actually forgetting to lose them is "destruction". When endless darkness and dryness come, human beings will become weak, hopeless, and helpless. Modernity has killed God, but has left a vacant place in the human spirit that should still be preserved because humans still need to regain their reverence for nature and life itself.
"In unleashing the forces of life into the machines we create, we also lose control over them. They gain wildness, and some surprises and surprises from wildness. The artificial world is like the natural world, There will soon be autonomy, adaptability, and creativity, and with it we will lose our control. But in my opinion, this is the most beautiful ending." - "Inevitably", "KK Trilogy · Prospect"
In addition to the perspective of the opposition between man and nature produced by industrial civilization, the film seems to have another interpretation. The film has two inconspicuous but pervasive elements—wine and religion. During the process of material destruction, the wine bottle gradually bottoms out, but the religious guidance gradually emerges. "Wine culture" seems to be the embodiment of human spiritual self and the carrier of the most vivid consciousness of human beings. In the film, wine, as a non-essential necessity in the sense of survival, plays a kind of spiritual carrier in people's poor and boring life. Wine seems to entrust the spirit of people's boring life; and when the material is gradually destroyed, wine also Unable to add more, people find their spirits seem to have disappeared into the darkness. If meaning is given by something other than itself, then when everything is destroyed and the whole world is left with only itself, where should meaning come from? In the bible given to the girl by the gypsies, the girl reads: "The day will become night, the night will end, the blizzard is still raging, the wind is blowing relentlessly from the same direction, sweeping the earth, and now there is nothing to stop it Its footsteps are nothing but a gust of dust lifted by the wind, rushing forward desperately, the dry dust, the raging blank, with the tumbling wind, raging indiscriminately on the barren land." - This seems to be the plot of the story. itself. When everything returns to primitiveness, even the simplest material civilization disappears little by little, and the existence of human beings becomes more and more prominent. Under such circumstances, how should human beings deal with themselves? The film strips away the most simple and primitive state of human life, the grand nothingness that is covered up by the bustling modernity, and the daughter's final hunger strike is derived from this resistance to nothingness. The father said to his daughter—as the daughter once said to the horse—“You have to eat”, but the daughter showed a silent refusal, and a question was thrown to the audience: “To live or to perish, this is a question.”
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