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Derek JarmanDrehbuch:
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Karl Johnson, Michael Gough, Tilda Swinton, John Quentin, Jill Balcon, Nabil Shaban, Sally Dexter, Donald McInnes, Clancy Chassay, Vania Del BorgoInhalte(1)
A highly stylized comic biography of eccentric German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (Karl Johnson), this film features the thinker struggling with the absurdities of his life, including a bright green martian and an out-of-place rhinoceros, while also tackling serious subjects such as society's feared reaction to his own homosexuality. Derek Jarman directs this spare, understated look at the life and work of the brilliant yet tortured man. Utilizing only a sparse collection of props to evoke each era and locale, the film follows Wittgenstein from his childhood home in Vienna (symbolized simply by a grand piano) to his enlistment in World War I and, finally, to Cambridge University in England, where he befriended scholars Maynard Keynes (John Quentin) and Bertrand Russell (Michael Gough) and engaged in homosexual affairs with his students. Although he left Cambridge several times, briefly living in Norway and once trying to move to Soviet Russia to assist the revolution there, Wittgenstein always returned to the university--and it was there he finally died. Throughout his life, the philosopher, whose writings explored issues of language and communication, struggled futilely to make others understand his own complex words and ideas--a sentiment expertly captured by Jarman's unique film. (Verleiher-Text)
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The reason for the two-star rating is that the form of the film didn’t appeal to me. But that's just me, so if you stumble upon my review by accident, just ignore it, go ahead and watch the film, and don't get discouraged by my strongly subjective view.
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