What is human nature?

Johnathon 2022-01-06 08:01:27

Lars von Trier is a very interesting director. From the protagonist of "This House Is Made By Me" can be seen his admiration for the critical rationality of Nietzsche's philosophy. The entire film was almost completed with handheld photography. The film has repeatedly used classical music played by Glenn Gould and various oil paintings to highlight the bloody works created by the protagonist, allowing people to watch the male protagonist murder like a piece of art. In the movie about perverted murderers Here you can see the confrontation between the victim and the perverted murderer. There is nothing in this movie. There is only a man who follows his perverted beliefs and tortured the victim continuously. The audience enters his room and can only see him. The twisted and ugly face of the world. The whole movie is more like an exploration of the nature of human nature by director Lars von Trier. In the first story, the woman who was knocked to death by a jack undoubtedly activated the man’s potential killing nature. In the second story, the man tried to release his own nature and tried to kill innocent victims. A heavy rain of corpses was even worse. It was to let him see a certain kind of revelation. He interprets his worldview with the act of killing. When a man completely accepts his own nature, he finds that the doctrine of the Bible obscures the identity of man, obliterates man’s nature, and lets the tiger hunting. Turning into a lamb, he began to reject God and reject kindness. When killing became commonplace, he even tried to create when killing. Innocence and cruelty became meaningless affixes to him. He just did what he had at hand. The thing is killing. Since faith has collapsed in his worldview and God no longer exists, why didn’t he create his own god? Faith is for worship, and worship is created by embodied people, so he passed Killing to create his own bloody faith, he used blood to compose his own bible, he used endless corpses to build his own temple, he created self-adoration through the act of killing, he thought it was the ultimate art, he was like Nietzsche's rebellious Not Ju, subverting the mortal’s understanding of art, he is like Glenn Gould playing music, feeling the merciless killing of classical melodies, he is like paintings created by Juan Gris, making the corpses belong to him only In the end, he went to hell with Virgil like Dante. When he was going to climb the broken bridge and leave hell, he played a big game, he fell into hell and became his most satisfying work of art. .

However, the male protagonist did not die in reality. The ending of his death to hell is a certain mental excess of Lars von Trier. In this film, he explores the root of human nature. The problem is that a person is a person. Born to kill, is his behavior wrong? Or is it the fault of the creator?

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The House That Jack Built quotes

  • Verge: Why are they always so stupid?

    Jack: Who's stupid?

    Verge: All the women you killed, strike me as seriously unintelligent.

    Jack: I've also killed men.

    Verge: But you only talk about the stupid women. Unless you think all women are stupid.

    Jack: Well, the stories I've told were selected at random, but...

    Verge: You feel superior to women and want to brag. It turns you on, doesn't it Jack?

    Jack: No, no. But women are easier, not physically, they're just easier to work with. More cooperative.

    Verge: To kill, you mean?

    Jack: If you like. Mr. Sophistication believes in that theory.

    Verge: So... Mr. Sophistication is the theoretician?

  • Jack: Verge?

    Verge: I'm here, Jack.

    [pause]

    Jack: I don't feel so good Verge. There's a sour taste in my mouth.

    Verge: You want me to show you the way to the next whisky bar?