Downfall
aka Der Untergang, based on Inside Hitler’s Bunker – The Last Days of The Third
Reich by Joachim Fest
10 out of
10
This is a
fantastic narrative, which shows the world what a monster looks and acts like,
as he falls from the heights of the top of The Third Reich, into the bunker
where he will spend his last days, together with some of the other demons, like
Joseph and Magda Goebbels, parents that have decided to kill their many
children (how many were there, six, eight?) poisoning them rather than allow
them to live in a Germany that would soon be liberated…granted, the part
occupied by the Red Army would not be a democracy, the soviets brought in
calamity with them, but still, life is better than death…
One of the
examples I have comes from Fyodor Dostoyevsky, who had been sentenced to death,
and faced execution, with three minutes remaining – this is a story that our
divine Literature Professor, Anton Chevorchian used to tell us in class and we
have been mesmerized by this and everything else he told us…look, I think about
it after forty years and share it with you – which he divided into…three, one
to say goodbye to friends and family, another to pass his life in front of him,
and last, to enjoy a ray of sunshine that was falling on the top of a church
nearby, and then he was pardoned and freed…
http://realini.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-eternal-husband-by-fyodor.html the great master includes this
experience in his masterpieces, wherein he explains what the man who has very
little to live thinks, feels, from personal experience, and we learn that when
we have so little ahead, we cherish life immensely, the characters in the
magnum opera insist that they would rather live on a bare rock, in the middle
of the ocean, than end it all, in such a short time…evidently, time is relative
and we know it from Einstein…
Seneca has
looked at the ‘shortness’ of life and contested the idea, saying that we have
in fact enough time in our lifetimes, it is just that we waste so much http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/on-leisure-aka-de-otio-by-senecawith.html we treat time as if it were
something we have in abundance, we even ‘kill time’, get bored in many
situations and just think about it passing as fast as possible…in an attempt to
explain the genius Albert Einstein said “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute,
and it seems like an hour…Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like
a minute…That's relativity…” albeit with various sexual orientations, the
notion will have to be changed accordingly…
Maybe it
was Milan Kundera http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-unbearable-lightness-of-being-9-put.html in his most famous The Unbearable
Lightness of Being arguing that the genius label has become too weak, using
some words to explain everything, praise all and sunder, hoi polloi will end up
annihilating the original significance of the word, genius needs to be used for
Leonardo, Albert Einstein and maybe Shakespeare…
Thomas Mann
took on a couple of words, love and friend, in a short story that has been
engraved in my mind, if we are to psychoanalyze this, it might be a wrong move,
for it might have created a very skeptical frame of mind, some negativity and
the perspective that love is really absent http://realini.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-magic-mountain-is-classic-that.html and we cannot rely on friends.
There are
no friends here, unless we think of Marius, The Last of The Mohicans, and that
could be blamed on Thomas Mann – in this short story, one of the characters
complains that people keep talking about their ‘great love’, so grandiose,
there ‘are no words to express it’, when the opposite is true, love means so
much, we do not find it, except in fiction, art, in life, when tested, love
shows it was just a word we used, and the ‘friends’ we have, do not really show
up when needed, it is just a false notion
As for
Hitler, the quote from George Bernard Shaw comes to mind, where he said
something to the effect that ‘Hitler is a good speaker, organized this and
that, has qualities, but what I can say is that it would have been better for
the world, if he had never been born’ http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/03/don-juan-in-hell-by-george-bernard-shaw.html albeit Shaw, not a favorite of
mine, had also said The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my
warmest sympathy’
Whenever we
speak of the Nazis, I am aghast at how the world has stigmatized them, which is
as it must be, making illegal those movements and manifestations in many places
(say Germany), which is again what must be done, yet, when it comes to communism,
those lunatics and demons are somehow tolerated and considered benign, nay, in
realms they are venerated, as it happens in the new Soviet Empire.
Stalin is
making a comeback there, his statues have been installed in places, and over
the past few days, they have shown the celebrations on the news, which is part
of a ghastly transformation of Russia into a vile, disgusting new empire
(actually, it is just the old thing, as they said here, the old Mary with a new
hat) that is annexing land from Ukraine -the despot from the Kremlin, ruler of
Muscovy, as Zelensky has said we should call Russia, has just visited Mariupol
at night, and he entertains another tyrant, Xi, as they try to make the world
an immense playground for the two dictators, close buddies now, China waits to
take Taiwan soon, and much else in the South China Sea, and wherever they wish
The communists
and now those Z mass killers have been just as bad, if not worse than Hitler,
if we count the dead, Stalin has surpassed the Nazi mad man, just like Mao has
murdered more in his own country, through famine, executing them…they have the
same planes now in Ukraine, later in Taiwan, and we need to learn lessons from
this narrative, the history of monsters like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, which have
successors in Putin, Xi, and some other smaller despots, Kim of North Korea and
so on…
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