Die dritte Generation (1979)
31KDie dritte Generation: Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With Harry Baer, Hark Bohm, Margit Carstensen, Eddie Constantine. Peter Lenz, a mogul merrily funds terrorists to boost his computer sales, by panicking West German government and industry c. 1980, as the third generation of Western European left-wing activists forms, after crippling of the violent Red Army Faction. International capitalist PJ Lurz’s secretary is a gang member, while her Polizeikommissar father-in-law/lover hired Lurz’ corporate security force. On February 27, Carnival Tuesday, these young terrorists kidnap Peter Lenz.
“In Berlin, a cell of terrorist composed by middle-class people is activated with the sentence u0026quot;The World as Will and Ideau0026quot;, based on the central work of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer u0026quot;The World as Will and Representationu0026quot;. They plan to abduct the businessman P. J. Lurz ( Eddie Constantine) that works with sales of computers, while they are chased by a persistent chief of police. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;Die Dritte Generationu0026quot; a.k.a. u0026quot;The Third Generationu0026quot; is a weird, hermetic, disconnected but mesmerizing film of German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, divided in six chapters and dedicated to those who truly love (meaning no one in the vision of the director). The plot explores the concept of terrorism and the contradictions of the middle- class and apparently the central idea is based on Schopenhaueru0026#39;s central work. Unfortunately I do not have knowledge in philosophy, sociology or political science to fully understand this inaccessible film. Fassbinder uses unusual angles with his camera and strange sounds to expose with irony the bourgeois values of each ridiculous terrorist of this generation that does not have ideology. In the end, I liked this collection of ideas in spite of I have not clearly understood the film as a whole. My vote is six.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eTitle (Brazil): u0026quot;A Terceira Geraçãou0026quot; (u0026quot;The Third Generationu0026quot;)”
