I saw a documentary at Cinema City in Andel in Prague. We were alone in the theater with a girl of about 20 years old. I was disappointed. We make a lot of documentaries about Václav Havel, but none that appeal to the public across generations and his still relevant ideas. It continues the tradition of plebeian works about our great personalities (thankfully without the sex scenes we saw in the film about Božena Němcová) in the style of "but he's like me". Can anyone imagine making a documentary in a similar style about TGM, Albert Einstein, and other our or world greats? I appreciated the brief appearance of President Václav Klaus, who in a few seconds, verbally and non-verbally, unconsciously said everything about himself.
However, I recall the statements of President Václav Havel from the documentary to remember:
"The worst thing is to say I won't change anything I care about anyway. That's kind of the worst kind of existential bankruptcy."
"The world is absurd, we are like Sisyphus"
On the soul of the contemporary European: "After all, he should be a little more humble, he should think about what will happen when he dies, he should bow before the mystery of the universe and existence itself. In short, to relate again more, as it was in the first phase of European evolution, to eternity and to the infinite."
"In the first phase nothing usually happens, people wait. In the second phase, they are disturbed because they do not know what has happened. In the third phase they start to lightly boo, and in the fourth phase they start to walk away or laugh. But mainly the empty scene has its own special content, its own message. It is the emptiness of the world condensed into a few minutes. Emptiness so empty that it is silent even about itself."
"The bolder the thing one does and says, the less seriously one should take oneself."
"It would be beautiful to repeat all this if one did not know all that one has known since."
"We are living in a very strange time, a time when the face of the human world is suddenly changing at a speed short of any political science tachometer yet known."
"It's all very strange. My basic relation to the world is a kind of permanent wonder. All my life I've thought that it's not all just like that."
JŠ
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