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life in limbo
"One dies, along with the other lives. It makes life so deeply beautiful "Mombert
tragedy is necessarily related to the death. Although numerous figures of antiquity, knew by the death seemed surmountable, demi-gods and deified men, the climb to Mount Olympus, the ascent from Hades: The mortals of ancient tragedy were their mortality always been brought vividly. In rare cases, tragically, no death was poetic justice cruel Widerholungsstrafen prepared without foreseeable end. Transitions, mutilations, enchanted transformations, eagles that eat the liver, a metaphor for futility: Sisyphus, of a rock and roll always has time and again to the same rock. Between life and death, there is the eternal stagnation. The well-filled waiting room limbo.
The Renaissance of death as an appropriate target of the dramatic narrative was parallel with the decline of religions, which would only allow to interpret the death as a moment of transition. Life as a transition into a different, better condition. Those who believe that the death can not harm them. The Christian dramas need the death of their heroes only to demonstrate the wickedness of the world they escape. Martyrs die happy in a way that can harm the tragedy had nothing, they are saved, not judged. Anders, if life only as an extension of the nothing is thought. If the death destroyed, remains behind - nothing. And through the awareness of own mortality mention other objectives of the dramatic action to come into view. Death wins as unsurpassable destructive turning point in importance. The more death, more apparent but also the celebration of survival. Splatter films celebrate the baptism of his opposition, stating with minor injuries from the massacre.
The unio mystica, the mystical union of the lovers in death. What sounds like a romantic dramatic punch, is a theological figure, which aims beyond Romeo and Juliet similar to the figure of the virginal conception: Sex is dirty. Exalted is only the pure and immortal in its purity feeling. Only in that the lovers die together and united in love, their love is even set to infinity. They do not suffer the loss of substance through everyday life, relationship stress, children. Maybe you need a concept of God, but without the concept of an immortal soul is not the idea of undying love in death durable. In the face of death, even before the mind does not stop, there is no basis. The lovers die without hovering over the waters rest remains perhaps for this reason in recent tragedies of romantic love has always been one of the two alive in order later to tell of the great feeling of Eros and Tanatos.
were immortal romantic love has always been only by its dramatic version, which still reverberates to read or the movies. The theologically motivated Sexverbot is collected in the latest film. The "little death," as the hackneyed metaphor French applied between human adult is called, the immortal love is no longer in the way it goes with it. This seems historically to be a prevention success: If adult can be successfully separated from procreation, is sex as a purely purposeless act of sublime and thus expression of romantic love itself
Arnold Gehlen in the thirties transferred the finality of death on the Consideration of state. One must always interpret things from their emergency ago. He was referring to the war. Those who refused military service, you know the argument: Do not be forced to use the weapon in an emergency. The skin-goût of the considerations by Gehlen is also attached to films that need the military emergency to provide an action on its feet. That the Ernst case shows only what man has to stay, a prejudice that only proves poor knowledge of human nature: Who is good to block warden shows at any time. And movies do not have to call on the death to be dramatic. The emergency can exist in a separation, falling out of relationships that have worn. At a time when have the most people my age have never seen a dead body, the representation of death in the cinema is already a compensatory act to fill a void in life.
There are German movie that a certain accumulation of deaths at the beginning of history to draw well to force the hero into the waters of dramatic incidents. Lynch, Cronenberg, Haggis and Iñárritu are the international donors in terms of a model car accident. The seemingly contingent collisions in road traffic strain the metaphor of the randomness of the encounters and survival, derange the heroes and let them to doubt their relationship to the living. The death calls into the open. As if the life of the sadness of the orbit, from which only the collision of a car will help out the real thing. endure the despondency of the heroes, the tendency to intolerable conditions up to an external shock is so by the accumulation of presentation to the sign of our times. Only the proximity of death in the first act breaks this hopeless yet of the endless queue to change, so it seems. But perhaps it is simply the horror in the face of danger as experienced world that can pick up the randomly impacting death as an effective means of exposure, because all other means appear to induce told, the risk promise. Beckett describes the absurd as the problem to us from the familiar painful tears out. The banana peel, slip on the Crap in Craps Last Tape. The absurd hero tries desperately to restore the old order again - and fails.
From the death wish of the tragedy, the comedy has to be impressed before. The heroes of the comedy are like cartoon characters immortal. That opens the coffin lid is clearly an indication of that. Who dies in the comedy dies, never quite. The aversion to the depiction of death may be related to the end of laughter in the face of emergencies, but also with a different conception of life and banana peels: Gravity, gravity is already in Tristram Shandy as a physical Defect ridiculed. With a preference for the death of the drama, the man simply takes dramatising general too seriously. In the comedy its author usually veer that he could make as one with the death confronted a ridiculous figure. It also threatens the heroes on Germany's roads.
