If God is dead The filmmakers obviously play out Nietzsche’s theme of the death of a god, a rather symbolic death. Of course, a person who is not at all familiar with the philosophy of Nietzsche will be bored, he will fall into pessimism or even curse this film.
But everything's fine. Just as in a fairy tale someone shouts “The king is naked!”, so Nietzsche shouts: “And the man is hollow!” That is, man is empty inside, and in himself is nothing without his own desire to be a man. Our characters in the film are just that, they are not filled with inner human content. Their life is practically no different from that of an animal, and specifically from that of their horse. Without God, a hollow man is nothing. That's probably one of the ideas. By God, Nietzsche understood only the basis of their existence. That is, the external meaning of their lives. If it is not, then there is no sense (and you need to look for it yourself, and for this you need to work, and it is difficult to work, because a person is lazy).
It was easy for me to watch the movie because I didn’t empathize with the characters as victims. I saw in them only an illustration of a hollow man according to Nietzsche. A neighbor who came to pick up a crib from somewhere (it is not clear why he is a neighbor, if, as is obvious, he lives too far away) tells that the city has disappeared, that people are to blame, and that God (or God) died. The idea of the film is that if God is dead, then people no longer have an understanding of good and evil, and if so, they do not. So they disappear. At the same time, Nietzsche is a little different: if God is dead, then yes, there is no good and evil, but that is not all. In him this, in turn, means that there is nothing that can have intentions for a person, which means that one must now act on one’s own, show one’s will, without foolish hope, fill oneself with (meaning, action), striving to become a superman (not exalting oneself above others, but exalting oneself exclusively). And we show people who are not capable of it. Desperation in everything.
In the film once flashed gypsies ... Gypsies, of course, appear as villains, but they are at least living characters. They may be filled with destruction and meaningless sprees, but they are FULL, they are alive. Our heroes cling on their last breath for their everyday life.
Sometimes the scenes seemed drawn out. It seemed that in two minutes, as the peasant rides his horse into the wind, the author has already said all that is necessary, but he rides it for another three minutes. That's the whole movie. However, at the conclusion of the viewing, it is clear that it is these drawn-out scenes that create the space of the film, how a huge forest and a long river create the landscape (instead of three pines and a stream). In the film, the world is quite voluminous, although geographically limited.
It seems that you can even feel the film almost physically: it is the taste of dust, the smell of old dry leaves, which have long been colorless, as well as the cold of the impending void.
The doomed “should eat”, said by my father, as if convincing himself of this in one of the scenes, I liked especially (more details – see for yourself). Do heroes think about anything? Are they trying to understand their situation? Probably not, and that's their hell. They live in hell if you take evil infinity as hell. But most likely, the film does not show the end of the world at all. It’s the individual end of the world, and it’s scarier because it’s more lonely.
9 out of 10
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