If tears could speak, what would they say?
My tears will say: We are free, you never let us out.
What about the sadness behind the tears?
It's not sadness, it's comfort.
The film "When Nietzsche Wept" was adapted from the psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and well-versed in existential philosophy owen. Aaron's novel of the same name, "When Nietzsche Wept", belongs to the psychological reasoning film.
In other words, in Vienna at the end of the 19th century, a young and beautiful Russian female poet Salome approached the medical master Brehr and asked for a deceptive treatment for the psychological pain of her friend the existential master Nietzsche, so that Nietzsche, who was in "despair", felt that life was worth living. How to save? How to get the rational superman Nietzsche out of the predicament of life? The famous doctor and Superman meet, and the story unfolds, which is wonderful.
The existentialist master Nietzsche was really ill, sick in the midst of lust, with severe migraines plus "despair" and suicidal tendencies, but unwilling to receive treatment. Salome considers herself responsible for Nietzsche's despair because she has stirred up the man and ignited the passion of this extremely lonely man, but she does not want to fall in love with him, and he hates because of love.
The medical master Brel lived a well-off life, living a respected and enviable life, he was also sick, trapped in the carnal fantasies of his patient Porta, and at the same time feared old age, doubted the whole life, faced a marriage crisis, also in "despair", or mid-life crisis.
Two master men meet, just as psychology and philosophy meet and marry. In the film, in order to keep Nietzsche, who was tormented by "betrayal" and did not trust anyone, Brel came up with a solution, he and Nietzsche reached an agreement: Brel healed Nietzsche's body for free, Nietzsche used philosophy to heal Brel's despair in return, and the two were connected to each other as doctors and patients, opening a gripping "talk therapy". The game and contest between them, their reflections and discussions on their own humanity, the topic involves the four ultimate concerns of life: death, freedom, loneliness, and the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life, which really makes people feel the weight of these themes in real life, which can trigger a dialogue between people and the self, and explore the real and difficult to know self.
Two men tormented by lust, two men who are not free, how did they transcend and continue on their way? Breyer's lust focuses on his patient, Porta, whom he sees as a symbol of living life, who gives him the color of gray life and ignites the fire of his life. Guided by Nietzsche, Brehr embarked on a bold self-exploration: his relationship with Porta, his relationship with his parents, his relationship with his family, his relationship with himself and the world, and even his relationship with death. In the deep digging into the various relationships, I suddenly realized that I have never lived, and that I have only lived once. He longs for rebirth and freedom, but he can't understand for himself what it all means. So as a minor role in the film, the psychology master Sigremont. Freud came in handy, taking a break from his friend Dr. Breyer's deep psychological crisis.
Hypnotized, Brel abandons his wife and son and runs to his Porta, his haunted lover. However, when he found her, his lover was in love with someone else, saying what she had said to him, he was in pain, and he would realize the preciousness of what he had, and only then would he realize what he really wanted. Waking up from hypnosis, he was completely awakened from the fog of freedom. He was reborn after death and returned to life.
When Breyer confides in Nietzsche about the healing process, Nietzsche confesses to Brel that he has been hiding behind Brel, pushing Brel ahead to experience this danger, confessing his pain and cowardice. Breyer also confessed his agreement with Salome, and the two were honest with each other, so that they really became friends, so that Nietzsche, who felt lonely because he did not believe in people, could face his own shortcomings and shed tears. Loneliness is revealed in front of good friends and in front of those who understand, and only then is it healed, washed away, detached, and liberated.
At the end of the film, it seems that everything is back to square one: the great Nee uses his tears to exhaust the restlessness and melancholy that Salome has caused in his soul, and he is able to return to his loneliness, but after he has experienced Salome's love and Brel's friendship, his loneliness seems to be different from the loneliness he once was. Brehr also returned to his former life, practicing medicine and living a rich and respectable life.
The two men, who were doctors and patients, became good friends, but according to Nietzsche's principle that "friends must be estranged," the two broke up.
I also saw the female consciousness in this film. road. Salome, a beautiful Russian woman, a woman with a torch heart, who inadvertently ignited Nietzsche, who was as inburnless as a decaying wood, made such a genius philosopher as maddened, but she understood from her own nature the most essential meaning of love: she revered Nietzsche, but did not love him. She said how she really felt about Nietzsche: I was attracted to him, but it wasn't romantic, and I wanted to get to know him, not obey. It was because Salome did not love Nietzsche that he was sick of pain, and because she revered him, she secretly asked Brel to treat him, and she kept her eye on him.
Combining philosophy with psychology is the brilliance of the film. Through watching the movie, you will find that the problems encountered in your life are also experienced by the masters, even more painful and desperate than you. How does life reignit? Nietzsche said that you must be ready to bathe in your own flames: how can you be born again, if not first reduced to ashes?
Nietzsche envisions that if we are now experiencing a life that we have experienced before, you can experience it again, or even repeat it countless times, like an hourglass. But all the pain and joy that you have experienced again in your life will not be new, and all the big and small things that are difficult to express will be repeated in you one after another. Then all the unexperienced feelings of life that man expects will never be experienced. As a result, people feel that their own lives have been designed by "others", and the existing peripheral world determines the subjective feelings of our lives, and it is life that experiences us, not ourselves who really experience life.
Death is inevitable to life, but the dead will not pursue. So, all goodness is in reality, and existence is beauty, including Nietzsche's tears, including everything you are experiencing.