“Were we to think away our frailty and lateness, our physiological senescence, then our morality of "humanization" would immediately lose its value too (in itself, no morality has any value)--it would even arouse disdain. On the other hand, let us not doubt that we moderns, with our thickly padded humanity, which at all costs wants to avoid bumping into a stone, would have provided Cesare Borgia's contemporaries with a comedy at which they could have laughed themselves to death.”
The real amazing thing about this movie is that it does proof Nietzsche right on his assumption that modern beings could not even dare to think themselves being transferred back to the age of the Renaissance: By moving the Renaissance play to the era of World War II the characters of Shakespeare show the key figures of that age as bloodless and boring persons: Compare Richard of Gloucester to Adolf Hitler and Richmond to his detractors; and I should invoke Nietzsche now:
LAD
nutfilmsuk 1 week ago
I watched this for English 4 years ago....just got the urge to watch it now!
ILoveMerylStreepxo 1 month ago
the hardest act piece, for a lady leading role.
caraweltanschauung 2 months ago
“Were we to think away our frailty and lateness, our physiological senescence, then our morality of "humanization" would immediately lose its value too (in itself, no morality has any value)--it would even arouse disdain. On the other hand, let us not doubt that we moderns, with our thickly padded humanity, which at all costs wants to avoid bumping into a stone, would have provided Cesare Borgia's contemporaries with a comedy at which they could have laughed themselves to death.”
FireEyedMaidOfWar 9 months ago
The real amazing thing about this movie is that it does proof Nietzsche right on his assumption that modern beings could not even dare to think themselves being transferred back to the age of the Renaissance: By moving the Renaissance play to the era of World War II the characters of Shakespeare show the key figures of that age as bloodless and boring persons: Compare Richard of Gloucester to Adolf Hitler and Richmond to his detractors; and I should invoke Nietzsche now:
FireEyedMaidOfWar 9 months ago 2
Great, thanks for tat, really confused with the scene until now. legend.
wowguy365 1 year ago