| The film is a study into the great minds that pioneered certain theory but it's a look at their own struggles; their own struggles that helped shape an understanding in the first place | My heart hopes as many as possible but my mind tells me not many will bother, and given this that's quite a shame |
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| We the audience ask the question of what is going on and just when it seems the impossible or the downright obscure is about to happen, our questions are answered | Viennese doctor Josef Breuer meets with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to help him deal with his despair |
It may not be as good a metaphorical study but it remains interesting and thought-provoking.
13| The events, no matter how fabricated over history, are still compelling and the film just about works as a drama or a study of an individual's actions given their emotions that run on a dizzying high | Whether it's the bizarre manner in which Breuer refers to Freud as 'Siggy' or the odd scenes to do with diegetic classical music complete with orchestra that Nietzsche himself composes to the bemusement of those around him, the film remains an interesting look at a subject that is being dealt with head on rather than in a metaphorical or dramatic way, much like Hitchcock and Lynch have done in the past |
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| Nietzsche at first seeks to run from his problem, thinking escaping to Switzerland will compensate for the pain following the rejection of marriage | This is not a another? Viennese doctor Josef Breuer meets with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to help him deal with his despair |
' Twinned with this, what if you did not know of the treatment and the pain or whatever would simply not disappear? The film is a concentrated study on illness and the effects of illness but the said sickness is more affiliated to love or problems of a psychological kind.
22| The film is a study of a delicate mentality as expressed by those of a brilliant natural intelligence | The film is uncannily seductive in its general atmosphere and quite humbling on other occasions |
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| Nowadays, we're all fine with our doctors and so forth and our teen sex comedies that act as an escapist or humoured look at coming of age or love or sex or whatever but When Nietzsche Wept is a pit stop; a look back at times past | Nietzsche undergoes perhaps the more interesting study of the characters because his is the more dramatic, slipping into despair and depression after initially trying to combat the break up with 'remedy' from prostitution and, like I mentioned, fleeing entirely |
Viennese doctor Josef Breuer meets with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to help him deal with his despair.