- Also Known As:
- WILDEST DREAM: Conquest of Everest
- Version
- Languages:
- Length:
- 88 minutes (Uncut)
- Review Format:
- DVD
- Year:
- 2010
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Non-Fiction
- Director:
Director Anthony Geffen - Outstanding Performances:
- None
- Premiss:
- The first men to attempt the summit of the highest mountain in the world.
- Themes:
- Advertising | Alienation | Cowardice | Curative | Destiny | Emotional repression | Loneliness | Materialism | Narcissism | Parasitism | Passivity | Propaganda | Sadomasochism | Schizophrenia | Solipsism | Totalitarianism | The West | White culture | White guilt | White people | White privilege | White supremacy
- Similar To:
- Unknown
- Spin-offs:
- None
The usual White self-indulgence about White men’s desire to conquer – anything – and, thereby, feel that they are in command of everything they fear - especially themselves.
There is no explanation as to why Whites want to climb mountains - a completely pointless exercise - or walk to the South Pole or on the Sea of Tranquility (not to mention darkest Africa, perfumed Asia & tropical South America). It is as if they feel that being fully human is not enough and that the breathless self‑publicity of meaningless adventuring (along with the vainglorious political posturing it engenders) compensates for what must be empty and rather dissatisfying personal lives: Lives lived without any true sense of curiosity for what is truly important.
The talking heads here spout as if what they are saying is the most profoundly‑insightful and exciting blather ever uttered. But their blank eyes and drone‑like manner of speaking suggest a dearth of any real passion; tacitly‑revealing the emptiness of their desires and, presumably, their lives. What appears to be courage is, in fact, the desperation usually attendant upon trying to live an unexamined life; leading to the strong sense of emotionally‑hollow anti‑climax that always follows such self‑defeating activity.
There is no sense of men communing with nature in any truly‑evocative or deeply‑felt sense, despite the superb cinematography: Nature here is merely a painted backdrop to the vainglory of men who have swapped their souls for vapid, attention‑seeking egos, so that they can escape from having to compete with others possessing similarly-pointless competitiveness in an alienated narcissistic rage that provides them with no means of developing a deep‑seated sense of identity because the child‑like egos keeps getting in the way – a kind of resentful hermitage.
All that we have here is a culture that seeks escape from the mind‑numbing tedium of living in the emotionally‑repressive atmosphere necessary for White supremacy to work. One wonders if all the effort wasted on venturing into inhospitable climates would have been better spent on conquering (er, curing) cancer. Because Whites cannot live in harmony with a nature they are in perpetual conflict with (as shown here), one has a very strong sense that this helps explain climate‑change.
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