Thoughts on the Great Hidden Electricity Addiction

Frieda 2021-12-21 08:01:15

Overall feeling: shock, deep still water, spectacle, coldness, passion, hopelessness, expectation, magnificence, emptiness, irony

The wrath of God, the rush of desires, this power produces a vortex, is it spiraling up, or falling into the abyss?

Confrontation with nature, crossing steep walls and turbulence, fighting with natives, so-called civilization comes from extreme madness. Questioning civilization, thinking about barbarism.

The decay of the monarchy, the hypocrisy of the divine power, the arrogance of military power, no human rights, but extremely human nature, surrounded by all kinds of desires and alienated rights, is the only thing we can do to move forward? Each character is very distinctive and representative, presenting some state of the Western Renaissance. And it is not only epochal, but also trans-epochal.

I understand a little bit why Herzog would record primitive tribes in the jungle. Aguirre, the history of plundering to show us, is not more civilized than the indigenous people. Let me have a deep doubt about civilization. When the indigenous people called "meat, meat, meat" on the shore, there is no essential difference from the Western aggressors seeking gold "money, money, money". So, has human civilization progressed? When the natives did not understand the content of the Bible and simply said that the Bible could not speak, they were attacked by the missionary country in the name of blaspheming God. Preaching and spreading civilization are just a pretext for plunder and an excuse to rationalize the bloody killing. I feel very frustrated. Aguirre seems to have failed, but Aguirre who succeeded in succession will succeed one day, and then proceed to the next step. Is this a real success? People are still spinning in place, with no direction, only roar and anger.

I especially like the natural wonders filmed by the director, the steep cliffs, the muddy swamps, and the rushing rivers. They are all the roar and wrath of nature. This kind of anger has a pure beauty. In this kind of anger, the products of human civilization are gradually disappearing. There are butterflies on your hands, boats hanging on the treetops, horses that have been abandoned but landed, nursing dogs, newborn mice, monkeys running around. Some of them are deliberate, some of them may be in the process of filming. Randomly captured, they will give people some hope.

Two women. The commander’s wife seems to be the most modern rational person, pursuing a certain degree of fairness and justice, and having a firm love for her husband. But her voice was submerged in the law of the jungle. In the end, she chose to walk to the virgin forest alone. She was a frustrated person who died, or a goddess who saw through the world. What will her destiny be like, I prefer to take her Leaving is seen as a kind of rebellion and hope. Another woman, the daughter of Aguirre, exists like a statue of the Virgin, a tool of pure ignorance, a carrier of Aguirre's certain desires and emotions, not a real person. The girl died prematurely, which was the shattered hope of Aguirre. To her personally, life and death seem to be no different.

I didn't hate Aguirre either, just a fateful sense of sadness. No matter how the power and despotism are determined, they are still trapped in the whirlpool of life. Even some of his paranoia is awe-inspiring. It is a pure pursuit of the extreme, with a romantic and tragic color of ancient Greece. Aguirre's unwillingness to hesitate, unwilling to persevere and struggle in the whirlpool, in the whirlpool, be a madman, a romantic person.

The director throws out a torture about human civilization. What is the difference between civilization and barbarism? One of the rare directors who boldly displays real natural wonders, he himself also has a radical and exploratory desire like Aguirre, expressing problems in movies and exploring them in practice. Civilization is not about aggression and expansion and spreading doctrine, but before or after reflection, and constant questioning, trying to find some foothold in the vortex. I don’t know whether Aguirre’s anger is the only driving force for exploration. At least he is a powerful, human, primitive, and unignorable force. If you don’t reflect on what is behind the anger, then anger is just A kind of futile destruction, speeding up the rotation of the vortex. Do I need to stop and calm down to have a chance to live less dizzy in the whirlpool? Or maybe, everything is in vain, we can't stop spinning, so constantly trying to jump, it is also a kind of beauty that is worth pursuing in a lifetime.

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Extended Reading
  • Horacio 2022-04-21 09:02:30

    I am God's condemnation, who else is willing to follow me?

  • Kasey 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    Power is a game, and greed is the original sin of the game. Even the dying person is still dreaming the empty dream. There seems to be a chemical reaction between the true and the false, and the human being is the carrier, and greed is the catalyst.

Aguirre, the Wrath of God quotes

  • Don Fernando de Guzman: It won't be much longer. El Dorado could be only a few days away. No more rust on the cannon. We shall shoot our enemies with golden bullets. And you, Okello, will serve food on golden platters.

    Okello: All of us will get something out of this. Governorships, provinces, women. And perhaps I'll even be free.

    Brother Gaspar de Carvajal: Let us not forget the most important part of our mission. To spread the Word of God to these savages.

    Don Fernando de Guzman: I'm sure you'd like a golden cross encrusted with jewels instead of the silver one you lost.

  • Brother Gaspar de Carvajal: Things are not turning out as we expected. We see nothing but hunger and death. We lose men, but, never see the enemy. Until now, El Dorado has only been an illusion.

    Don Lope de Aguirre: The conquest of Mexico was no illusion. If we turn back now, others will come, and they'll succeed. And we'll remain nobodies. Even if this land is only trees and water we'll conquer it.