The subject of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles, 1987) is the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), who lived in the Greek colony of Agrigentum in Sicily. His theories are mentioned in several of Plato’s dialogues. He maintained that all matter is made up of four irreducible elements: water, earth, air and fire. A mystic and a poet, he is considered to be the founder of classical rhetoric. He is also thought to be the last Greek philosopher to write in verse; two fragments of his works survive: Katharmoi (Purifications) and Peri Phuseôs (On Nature). An advocate of democracy, he came into conflict with his fellow citizens of Agrigentum and, as result, was banished with his young disciple, Pausanius. When he was asked to return, he preferred to commit suicide by throwing himself into the active volcano at Mount Aetna.
The German writer Friedrich Hölderlin wrote two versions of Der Tod des Empedokles in 1798 and 1800, and a final third version in 1820, all three ultimately unfinished. They were conceived as five-act tragedies and all three differ in plot. According to Michael Hamburger, Hölderlin’s English-language translator,
the main reason why Hölderlin finished no version of the play must be that he remained too closely identified with Empedocles, at the very period in his life when his own view of the poet as philosopher, prophet and priest – and as tragic hero – was subject to perpetual crisis and re-examination.
Huillet-Straub’s The Death of Empedocles is based on Hölderlin’s first version (the longest of the three), whereas Black Sin is based on the third version.
政治迫害的题材很容易牵动情绪，但也很容易拍不好。这部片子就是处处都想说，但又处处都没有到位的感觉……
影片结尾我倾向于he——“我不会丢下你一个人走”是甜蜜的承诺，但我们依然要面对警笛声围绕、讨伐肃清四起、无处不压迫的现实。
这故事真是“国际化”，放在任何一个西方国家都可以成立，除了刻意地碰瓷时代背景之外，完全看不出和社会主义波兰有什么关系。这时代背景就和《归来》里的文革一样虚无缥缈，被高度抽空和概念化。这是网飞所有电影和剧集的弊病，“越是世界的才越是世界的”（王志文）。而且在资本主义世界千疮百孔的2021，还在讲“投奔自由反对专制”的滥套是不是有点不知今夕何夕呢？
男主的选择太顺撇了，或者导演有意想表达的就是潜意识发现之旅，各方面都很中规中矩
我，嗑到了绝世CP！
最感人的还是那段艾瑞克被抓到警察局里面，小胡子审他的时候 。
剧情不行啊。最心动的是涂鸦后强吻。警官其实好欲的。
比预想的好看一点，不过太容易猜到下一秒剧情了，床戏还可以。
當一個人感受到愛與自由的覺醒，任何事都無法阻礙他追尋自我的。從初見到結尾，兩位男主之間的情感人前婉轉細膩，私下大膽奔放，我想他們一定會在自由的國度再相遇。
“波兰人不喜欢其他波兰人快乐”。充满歧视和举报的那个国家也一样，对～说的就是美国！
整部电影看下来最值得赞叹的是镜头的层次感出人意料，单场景下的人物站位十分考究，画面冷感十足。没想到制作水准如此之高，情欲戏从光影到剪辑都能让人感受到肉体的秋波暗送。电影主题倾向于一个大背景下的小切入点，性取向少数群体在高压文化背景下的挣扎、妥协、反抗、失所，欺骗与真情之间的平衡，一千个同性恋有一千种活法，自由是每个国家、每个时代的共同课题。只是最后的点题拍法有些猝不及防，前期案情脉络没有交代清楚，仅仅专注于主人公个人心态的变化，后期就很难回归到初心的宏大话语体系之中。虽格局有限，但个人线的处理还是可圈可点，一个开放式悲剧，不禁让人想起风信子的花语之一，即“永恒的怀念”。
喜欢这部影片的拍摄风格，很多转场和光影布置都很有感觉，尤其是两个男主在小巷子亲吻那一幕，恰到好处啊，后来卷毛调戏胡子的时候，真的干柴烈火了。悬疑的地方也很到位，真相一点点浮出水面，虽然没有给人大吃一惊的感觉，但是那种细思极恐的感觉真的给到了。还很喜欢卷毛说的那句话，人不能对一切感到恐惧，尤其是为了自由。
拍的很真實了，幾位演員都很好，故事淺了一點點
看的淡了，就看的清楚了。
还是刺激而可看的。原来都是好多国家有过的抗争。
影片结尾我倾向于he——“我不会丢下你一个人走”是甜蜜的承诺，但我们依然要面对警笛声围绕、讨伐肃清四起、无处不压迫的现实。
比预想的好看一点，不过太容易猜到下一秒剧情了，床戏还可以。
下半年最惊喜的同影
还不错
还是恐同即深柜定律。另外没想到电影还可以。
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