Nietzsche and Kubrick

Rating: 10/10 (26 November 2017)

When Zarathustra came down to Earth, It became astonished as It noticed man had given value to itself. By giving value to itself: the spirit of man turns into a camel, condemned to carry his value through the desert. "You must" becomes love for oneself, imprisoning the spirit. As liberty is tied to freedom, the spirit must steal freedom from the love it has created. This implies a crime that only a lion can commit. So the camel turns into a lion. The lion, as a thief, carries with guilt that threatens its capacity to create, and turns into a baby, who has the quality of being innocent. Man has the chance to create again. This story told by Nietzsche implies the destruction of whatever definition man has given to itself. The connection with the movie lies in man creating technology and turning it into its greatest love, then becoming imprisoned by it as technology overwhelms its capacities. Then man has to split his freedom from its own creation: what he loves the most. In the end the spirit turns into a baby, without restrictions to create. Reminds us that none of our creations will ever be above us, no matter how much love we give them.