The will of the strongest

There are two movies that perfectly illustrate the idea of Nietzsche that love is beyond evil and good: Blade Runner and Apocalypse Now.

What is particularly interesting about these movies, is the so-called "evil" character. Vilains are often portrayed as instable, psychotic, delusional, and egotic characters. Basically weak. But in these movies, the vilains are definetely the main characters whereas the "heroes" are employes on the edge of the system, executing the fate of the main character like Pilate executed the fate of Jesus.

In Apocalypse Now, Martin Sheen plays a marginal military captain, whose mission is to kill a high ranking officer, played by Marlon Brando, who became rogue and rebelled against the failing moral authority of the american army in Vietnam. The "evil" character has reached a deep understanding of the nature of death, of evil and good, while facing the horrors of war... to the point of being able to see magnificent beauty in the most horrible and tragic events. Understanding that he obviously deserves to die for his misdeeds as a soldier, this rebel officer waits for Charlie Sheen to take his life, to free him from the disbalance of injustice. Below the final scene of the movie, with in the background the mystical and freudian music of the Doors (the end):



The Blade Runner evil character is just a human that is angry at his creator because he knows he is going to die soon. Here is the final scene of blade runner, where one can see the supremacy of the so-called "evil" character, and how further alive he is than the main one. Permanently living at the maximum, not being a zombie of the system, a prisoner of one's own weaknesses and fears, this is the moto of those whom eyes have seen God. And that is what this character played by Rutger Hauer tells to the marginal cop played by Harrison Ford.

The Blade Runner movie is also served by excellent music from Vangelis, as for instance, the unique piece of music called "blader runner blues".

Chill out your brain!

If you like chill-out music, you have to try these two pieces of music:

First let me introduce to you Ulrich Schnauss, he is a german electronic music composer and he has made some of the coolest sounds I have heard. His music probably has something new age in it, and feels like floating in space with some accents of winter nostalgia. He has many very nice compositions, and here is one of my favorites (originally "one million miles away"). I don't get tired listening to this music! I also recommend molfsee, nobody's home,...



Now, here is another master of the chill-out from Japan this time: DJ Krush (aka Hideaki Ishi). This piece of music is taken from his album with Toshinori Kondo, a jazz fusion trumpeter. The whole album is worth listening to, very nice jazzy chill out moment guaranteed.



Of course, if you wish to try the real chill-out experiment, you should connect to www.somafm.com and choose groove-salad or lush. This listener based californian internet radio has provided me with some unique chill-out sounds I would not found elsewhere. Enjoy!