You’re really close to hitting the nail on the head with the symbolism, but you have to use historical context and view it in the same theme tradition as all post-war German film and literature....the primary theme being that the war left the German people spiritually destroyed. It’s a complex idea, but it boils down “a people are nothing without their art, customs, and traditions. We (Germany) gave all of it...Beethoven, Wagner, Grimm Fairy Tales, Fritz Lang, Marx, Luther, Odinism and runes, everything....to Hitler and Goebbels who propagandized and exploited and basically ruined it.” Sort of “now that we were basically mass brainwashed and willingly allowed this to happen, where do we go from here?” German art and literature has played heavily over the last 75 years with this theme, as well as the theme of “unnameable grief”. Think of it similar to the mother of a serial killer like Jeffrey Dahmer dealing with his death. Even though it’s heart wrenching personally, literally no one else feels sorry for her because of the crimes he committed. Working through grief is a process of giving it a name, and in this case it has to be gone through alone. It has to be mentioned also that the author, Michael Ende, was an occultist. In the book, the back of Auryn said “Do What Thou Wilt”, the motto of English black magickian Aleister Crowley. So he clearly had his own unique ideas on what our new world would look like. Sorry for getting too heavy. Don’t mean to imply the whole movie is deep symbolism, just that it’s the big theme it plays with. Love the podcast, keep it up guys
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You’re really close to hitting the nail on the head with the symbolism, but you have to use historical context and view it in the same theme tradition as all post-war German film and literature....the primary theme being that the war left the German people spiritually destroyed.
It’s a complex idea, but it boils down “a people are nothing without their art, customs, and traditions. We (Germany) gave all of it...Beethoven, Wagner, Grimm Fairy Tales, Fritz Lang, Marx, Luther, Odinism and runes, everything....to Hitler and Goebbels who propagandized and exploited and basically ruined it.” Sort of “now that we were basically mass brainwashed and willingly allowed this to happen, where do we go from here?”
German art and literature has played heavily over the last 75 years with this theme, as well as the theme of “unnameable grief”. Think of it similar to the mother of a serial killer like Jeffrey Dahmer dealing with his death. Even though it’s heart wrenching personally, literally no one else feels sorry for her because of the crimes he committed. Working through grief is a process of giving it a name, and in this case it has to be gone through alone.
It has to be mentioned also that the author, Michael Ende, was an occultist. In the book, the back of Auryn said “Do What Thou Wilt”, the motto of English black magickian Aleister Crowley. So he clearly had his own unique ideas on what our new world would look like.
Sorry for getting too heavy. Don’t mean to imply the whole movie is deep symbolism, just that it’s the big theme it plays with. Love the podcast, keep it up guys