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Damnation
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Tarr’s earlier descent into rain-soaked stagnation shares The Turin Horse’s punishingly patient long takes, exhausted inhabitants, and sense that the landscape itself has surrendered.
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01 / THE STORY
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The film begins with a narrator explaining Germany philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's infamous mental breakdown in Turin, Italy in 1889 after seeing a man continually whip his horse which refused to move. After uttering his final words, "Mutter, ich bin dumm" ("mother, I am stupid"), Nietzsche becomes mute and demented, cared for by his family until his death a decade later.
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