Ludwig wittgenstein gay11/13/2022 ![]() ![]() ![]() My contention with this approach is that I don't need to agree with a film's views to appreciate it. Unsatisfied reviewers seem to fuss over which things should have been included in a film about Wittgenstein or how his life should be understood or examined. Perhaps this is the main difference I have with viewers who hate this film. I only have a slight idea about Wittgenstein's life and work. The report then is that this is not cinematically interesting, and some great drama has been missed in order to make a minor - and perhaps untrue - point. Alan Turing of the next generation, is a different, more apt story. In fact, he seemed to have repressed guilt about everything he could conceive, and among these homosexuality was a lesser driver because the environment was so accepting, even encouraging. Wittgenstein would be appalled, I think, to have his great projects and discipline so debased. But this film is motivated by a politico-sexual agenda, so while watering down the great intellectual and physical swings, ascribes them to repressed guilt of his sexuality. Along the way he designed one of the most puzzling houses on the planet. And he did this thrice! He went from the protection of the university to hovels and degradation multiple times. He tossed it away, disclaiming all his ideas and starting over as his own most powerful detractor. He absolutely mastered a strain of philosophical thought and was universally celebrated (though not understood). Independent of the ideas, his life is remarkable. This is grand, fascinating stuff, but in this play we get the most trivial inklings of his middle period. ![]() I believe them to be necessarily so, and we still don't appreciate the full ambiguities he noted. All these ideas were reinvented by independent means because his explications were so abstruse. He anticipated the core ideas about logic and language that are commonplace today. But the topic has real promise! Wittgenstein is among the dozen most fascinating men of ideas who ever lived. The technique is of stationary filming of a staged play with no risk and little imagination. About the actual art of the filmmaking, I can report that this to be completely mundane. I really wanted to discover a new director, so watched with expectation. He felt that Greenaway was excessive pretentious and juvenile and suggested this film as `real' intelligent filmmaking. ![]() I was marching through comprehensive viewing of the Greenaway section in our local art video store, and got into an argument with the proprietor. ![]()
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