"The Horse of Turin"

German 2022-04-02 09:01:16

"He fell, he fell." You mock again and again, know that he fell above you. He is very happy and sad, but his bright light is next to your darkness. ——Friedrich Wilhelm

Nietzsche believes that the will to power originates from life and belongs to life, and it is the actual life. His direct perception of the pain and joy of life, the philosophy that puts the will to life above reason, and the philosophy of irrationality.

Although Béla Tarr uses religious connotations and philosophical thinking, the film is still his consistent attempt to use pan-text images to provide multi-level contexts, expressing, prophesying, and even inspiring.

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The Turin Horse quotes

  • Bernhard: Theirs is the moment... nature, infinite silence.

  • Narrator: In Turin on the 3rd of January 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche steps out of the doorway of number six, Via Carlo Albert, perhaps to take a stroll, perhaps to go by the post office to collect his mail. Not far from him, the driver of a hansome cab is having trouble with a stubborn horse. Despite all his urging, the horse refuses to move, whereupon the driver - Giuseppe? Carlo? Ettore? - loses his patience and takes his whip to it. Nietzsche comes up to the throng and puts an end to the brutal scene caused by the driver, by this time foaming at the mouth with rage. For the solidly built and full-moustached gentleman suddenly jumps up to the cab and throws his arms around the horse's neck, sobbing. His landlord takes him home, he lies motionless and silent for two days on a divan until he mutters the obligatory last words "Mutter, ich bin dumm!" and lives for another ten years, silent and demented, under the care of his mother and sisters. We do not know what happened to the horse.