Legend has it that God created the world in six days, and this film destroys the world in six days.
From the beginning to the end of "The Horse of Turin", the characters have a few words of dialogue, but they bring the viewer a shock after deep thinking.
Such a minimalist film makes people look too sober, Bella Tarr faded the color of the picture, the color of life, with the dullness of the long lens to hit people's hearts, indeed pessimistic... It is said that "if you can endure this movie, you can endure life!" ”
It's a simple truth, but there aren't many movies that do this.
The film is also the finale of the Hungarian art film master Berâtar. In Hungary and throughout Europe, Bella Tarr was known for his stubbornness, not caring about the attitudes of audiences toward his work, scorning most of the films in film history when interviewed because of a certain point of view against journalists.
But stubbornness is not his only characteristic, but more importantly, he has labeled himself with the symbol of Bella Tarr with his unique film language: calm, objective, and to the point are the characteristics of his films, focusing on the fragile lives and souls of human beings with the lens, and "The Horse of Turin" is such a movie.
In 1889, Nietzsche stopped in front of the Via Carlo Elport Hotel.
As he gazed into the distance, a groom beside him was troubled by the reluctance of the horses to move forward, and the groom could only pick up the whip in his hand and beat the horse, Nietzsche saw the situation, immediately rushed forward, stopped the groom, and unexpectedly, Nietzsche began to cry after holding the horse... After that, the owner of the hotel took Nietzsche back to the hotel, and for two days Nietzsche spent on the sofa, saying only a few words in a small voice, and no one could hear clearly.
From then until he left this world, Nietzsche was deranged for a decade, always cared for by his loved ones.
No one knows what Nietzsche discovered on that day. What did you learn? What do you see? What happened inside?
The movie "The Horse of Turin" is a story that extends from this event, but in fact, Nietzsche hardly appears in this film... Originally thought he was the protagonist, but in the two and a half hours, almost the only plot revolves around groom and his daughter getting up, leading horses, fetching water, eating potatoes, and sleeping.
The cycle is about a week.
An average of four to five shots show the life of the characters in a day, this extraordinary long shot design reflects the slow pace of the film, after all, the film shows a kind of human suffering and the fragility of life, which has a strong tragic color, and the slow long shot can not only strengthen this tragedy, but also further deepen the theme of the film, only a long shot can reflect the coherence of events.
This is also the style that Bella Tar has always adhered to.
In addition to the slowness of the long shot of the film, the other "slow" of the film is the language, almost as little as fifteen shots without a word, the father and daughter usually communicate very little, year after year, day after day of simple life and repeated life has made them do not need any language communication, such as the daughter sees the father come home, will habitually lead the horse away, the father stretched out, the daughter knows that he wants to change clothes, every point is expressing the minimalism of the two people's lives, boring life has nothing to say.
The slow pace of the film makes many things lifeless, but the only thing that is a little angry is that the old horse that does not want to work, itself represents a jubilant horse, but it is given a duty by humans, which makes it lose its own vitality, and the old horse's resistance and tears actually contain a kind of retrospection of its own vitality.
And Nietzsche realized at the moment he saw the horse that he was no different from the horse itself.
Nietzsche rejected the traditional metaphysical view of truth, rejected asceticism, and advocated the transcendence of man at the heart of the will to power and life itself. Seeing the whipped horse, Nietzsche realized that he, or human beings, to a large extent, were suffering from all kinds of "whipping" from the outside world, and at first they might have struggled to put an end to this suffering, but when the suffering still came endlessly, he would realize that everything he had done was in vain, because all the practices were out of escape from suffering.
As for the suffering itself, it can never be faced, how to knock it down? Like a fierce wind, there is never an opponent with whom it can be clearly confronted, and the horse is reluctant to move forward when it is whipped, so when the whipping stops, can it continue in the right direction out of its inner desire? When traditional metaphysics gradually collapses, how can human beings establish new values and orders?
When Nietzsche saw the predicament of the horse, he immediately understood the reality of human beings who were confused and could not escape, and understood that he was also a member of this part, and the last tears and madness were also a manifestation of despair.
Nietzsche's greatness has surpassed his time, and even in the face of today's social problems, Nietzsche's thought can give a lack of predictive insights, even perfect solutions. "The Horse of Turin" is the best interpretation of Nietzsche's ideological awakening, and the film's "tree, a grass, a road, or a horse, a book" are all metaphors for their unique contrasts.
For the era in which Nietzsche lived, his thoughts were too advanced, even more like prophecies than prophecies, and because of the difference in thought, Nietzsche was not only lonely, but also long nights, and no one resonated with him. Although Nietzsche achieved the freedom of the soul in his mind, the body was still firmly imprisoned in reality.
Zhang Ailing: Chinese believe that people do not go anywhere to live year after year, and human beings do not go anywhere from generation to generation. So what's the point of being alive?
Whether it makes sense or not, it is alive anyway, lazily living.
This became the origin of what the West believed to be the origin of all things, the beginning of time and space.
In the movie "The Horse of Turin", the life of the father and daughter is set in just six days, and these six days have become the last moments of their lives, and in the six days, there are constant changes: moths do not bark, old horses do not eat or drink, well water dries up, finally no lights are lit, the world is plunged into darkness, and the two can only eat potatoes to live... There is no so-called God in the movie, and the real life of the father and daughter duo does not receive God's protection and pity, but in fact the whole world is moving towards the abyss of destruction.
Yet father and daughter are not opponents of God, or even true defenders.
Stand against Nietzsche.
In the face of difficult life situations, the father showed a kind of strength, even if the days are difficult to maintain, but the father still does not believe that the world and life will really be destroyed, so when someone said something "anti-God" remarks, the father coldly replied: "Don't pull, it's all nonsense." On the other side, the daughter also said as she drove away the gypsies: "God will punish you." ”
It took God six days to create the world, and it took six days for man to bury himself.
On the seventh day, the storm ceases and all things will fall silent.
After Bella Tarr finished filming The Horse of Turin in 2011, he put down the camera.
For him, he said, it was a film of its purest: "All the words were said"
Maybe what he wanted to ask was, "When you finish watching the movie, are you getting stronger or weaker?" ”
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