https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turin_Horse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnRCTkTLzII
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Tarr (Béla Tarr, b 1955)
It recalls the whipping of a horse in the Italian city Turin which is rumoured to have caused the mental breakdown of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
It is all the more poignant that of all sentient beings a horse should be part of Nietzsche’s last conscious act. These sensitive, powerful animals look at the world through the “seemingly limitless gaze of their large, dark eyes” (Klinkenborg, 2018, p. 46), with a mind that, some say (Hyland, 1990), never adjusts to history and modern thinking, but belongs instead to a perpetual present. Horses were sacrificed on a massive scale during two World Wars; while carrying heavy machinery, their attentive gaze reflected like a mirror the terror and devastation of the battlefield.
Bazzano, Manu. Nietzsche and Psychotherapy (p. 13). Taylor and Francis. 2018, Kindle edition.
