A German Reader: Luke und Marci (German Edition)

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A series of neutral, uninflected shots take in a vaguely rundown farm, with about a dozen men and women working at various tasks. Apart from the passingly curious fact that all the people are rather young and have no obvious family connection, nothing seems amiss—until the camera moves inside the farmhouse to the evening meal, where the men sit at table while the women wait outside for their turn.

As the two arrive at a palatial lakeside home that Lisa shares with her architect husband Ted Hugh Dancy , the backstory comes thin but fast: As most reading this will know long before this exegesis in extensis, the farm that Martha fled is the compound of a cult where she has resided for those missing years, ruled over by the laconically charismatic Patrick John Hawkes , whose paradoxical rhetoric meshes appeals to communality, self-reliance, self-help, and anti-materialism with male supremacy, sexual exploitation, and incitement to violence apropos intermittent home invasions on the abodes of the well-to-do.

As many a magazine feature will soon remind us, however, the real story here is not the filmmaker but his lead, and the untwinned Olsen is indeed a magnetic presence. Distinct from the dispassionately treated sexual shenanigans at the compound, the film covertly sexualizes Olsen throughout: When his editor nixes the idea newspapers, as we know, hate sensationalist war reporting , this gumshoe cub reporter finagles money from his stoner buddy Nicolas Wright , himself eager to get to Afghanistan to shoot a doc about tanks and, of course, try the hash.

Besides being less a movie and more a tired trek through ten years of yellowing headlines, Afghan Luke falls into the same tired caustic war comedy bullshit. Like a follow-the-bouncing-ball presentation, Clattenburg pokes us along as we learn that Afghanistan needs better sanitation, farmers often decamp to join insurgents when Western troops burn their narcotic cash crops, etc.

The sadist-sniper story, which is it itself intriguing precisely because it is so tacky and sensational—that editor character is an idiot—takes a backseat to this tongue-tied soapboxing.

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Yorgos Lanthimos expands on the themes of his previous film, the unlikely Foreign Oscar nominee Dogtooth , with much more unsettling results. Again, life constitutes some form of role-play, and as the rules of the game only become clear in the process even the slightest synopsis is a major spoiler, thanks to an initially opaque construction that then unravels with near-mathematical precision while allowing for the unpredictable interventions of character obstinacy and natural environments.

Many of these still exist around town, and Hazanavicius seems to have visited them all. So, it seems that the Berlin School is having an influence after all. The old South African racism has, in effect, been traded in for the equally twisted psychosis of heavily closeted homosexuality, which Francois practices with silent shame as he maintains a sad, ragged marriage with his wife Elena Michelle Scott.

For the first 15 minutes or so, it seems that veteran director Borinaga Alix Jr. We will talk in due course about the meaning of these words. But I was even more intrigued by the man called G in the book. I also learned that he had been born around in the Greek quarter of Alexandropol, then a part of Russia. His father was Greek and his mother was Armenian. It is around , when he was 17 years old, that Gurdjieff leaves home and starts a pilgrimage that takes him to remote places in the Middle and Far East and even to parts of Africa that would last around 20 years, travelling alone and with a group that calls itself The Seekers of Truth.

His book is a fictional account of his travels alone and with The Seekers of Truth. During his search, Mr. Gurdjieff carries with him a burning question: What is the significance of organic and human life on Earth? With this burning question as guiding beacon for his search, and with the help of his friends, members of the group The Seekers of Truth, Gurdjieff is able to put together an unknown teaching. Now in Russia, mainly in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Gurdjieff begins to impart his teaching to a large number of disciples.

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Among those disciples is P. Ouspensky who years later, and from sheer memory, writes a faithful account in book form about the years of Gurdjieff in Russia. This book is published in London in , two years after Ouspensky dies and months before Gurdjieff dies. In Gurdieff and a number of few disciples leave Russia. After traveling for two years through Turkey and Germany, Gurdjieff and his group settle in France.

Late in Gurdjieff and his group acquire and move to a small castle known as the Prieure de Basses Loges at Fontainebleau-Avon. There they form the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. Gurdjieff begins a period of hard physical work with his group of Russian disciples and other disciples coming mainly from England and America.

At the same time he engages in the composition of music and the development of sacred dances.

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In the summer of he has a near fatal car accident while driving alone from Paris to Fontainebleau. Nursed by his wife and mother, he makes a slow and painful recovery. In August he disbands his Institute keeping only the most dedicated disciples. While still recovering from his car accident and still in bed, Gurdjieff has a sort of revelation concerning his mission.

He sees that he has to change his mission from that of physical work and oral teaching, plus the composition of music and development of sacred dances, to that of writing books. In December Gurdjieff commences to write his magnum opus, the book in which he hopes to present his ideas to the world. It is a long, about pages long, allegory in which Beelzebub is travelling through space with his grandson Hassein while telling him his tales about the time he spent in our solar system.

For over 25 years Gurdjieff writes and rewrites his book, until his death in Paris in October of A year later, in , his book is published. While writing his book Gurdjieff keeps by his side a number of disciples to which he continues imparting his oral teaching. Gurdjieff was a teacher in the Eastern tradition, one who lived with his disciples and constantly and continuously shocked them. The most evident shock we see is the name of the protagonist of the book, Beelzebub himself.

In the book, the Prince of Darkness is objectively and impartially criticizing our life on Earth, our multiple abnormalities, with the intention of helping us to become normal. One of the greatest abnormality, one that is repeatedly mentioned in the book, is our long time habit of making war to others. It satisfies the two definitions of the esoteric term: It is also a book about Christianity because Gurdjieff was raised and buried in the Russian Orthodox Church.

So, we may say that the book is a good representation of what is known as esoteric Christianity. Even though the book is an esoteric book, since its publication in it has become a more and more accepted book by the public at large. It is a book of intellectual history.

I am one of these people. Ouspensky, who had been a disciple of Gurdjieff in Russia. I also said that at that time I was living in Venezuela. This was the year and I knew that Gurdjieff had died in Paris in , where he had many disciples before he died. So, I reasoned some of his disciples were still alive in I moved to Paris with my family in the summer of and once there I went about searching for a disciple of Mr. After a rather long preliminary search I was successful in finding a long time disciple of Gurdjieff by the name of Henri Tracol.

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I joined one of his groups dedicated to the study and practice of the teaching of Gurdjieff. Once in Paris I began to read the book with great interest, with the interest of someone who has found the book he was looking for. Later, still in Paris, I read the book in its French edition. In I returned with my family to Venezuela and joined a Gurdjieff Venezuelan group. I then became part of a group working on the translation into Spanish of Beelzebub.

In I moved with my family from Venezuela to New York where I found a job as a professor of electrical engineering. I would say that it has sustained my life through years of despair. The book has given directions to my life and has helped me to find a center of stability and gravity. Without this book I would have long ago become a lunatic, probably engaged in many fantastic and meaningless enterprises. I have been able to verify that statement. So, in a way I can say that the book has changed my life. I mean my inner life because my outer life has not changed much, except in the fact that I have lived in many different place.

But real change, as I understand it, is about inner change and not outer change.

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