Sunday 5 June 2016

Untergang
(2004)

RATING:100%
FORMAT:Cinema

[Downfall]

Although a little too long, this is definitively the best and most historically accurate Hitler movie of them all. Revealing the fuehrer's human face, as a kindly and understanding employer, is the most shocking content. As, indeed, is the realization that White, Western culture can so easily descend into depravity despite its apparently civilized veneer.

Bruno GANZ is superb as the Herrenvolk obsessive trapped by his own delusions – some of which will make you laugh, in spite of yourself. The terror on his subordinates faces as he commands panzer divisions against the advancing Russians in Berlin (that they are too scared to insist are imaginary) perfectly demonstrates his schizophrenic mindset. Alexandra Maria LARA (as one of his secretaries) expertly humanizes what could have been an unedifying trawl through human weakness.

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Science:



No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.



Jacob Bronowski… (1908 - 74), British scientist, author. Encounter (London, July 1971).


Sleep of Reason:



The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.



Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes… (1746-1828), Spanish painter. Caption to Caprichos, number 43, a series of eighty etchings completed in 1798, satirical and grotesque in form.


Humans & Aliens:



I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.



Terence… (circa 190-159 BC), Roman dramatist. Chremes, in The Self-Tormentor [Heauton Timorumenos], act 1, scene 1.


Führerprinzip:



One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves… There is no organ of conciliation or mediation interposed between the leader and the people, nothing in fact but the apparatus - in other words, the party - which is the emanation of the leader and the tool of his will to oppress. In this way the first and sole principle of this degraded form of mysticism is born, the Führerprinzip, which restores idolatry and a debased deity to the world of nihilism.



Albert Camus… (1913-60), French-Algerian writer & philosopher. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt: New York: Vintage Books, (1984; page 182.)