This is a modern-style play that introduces the life and thoughts of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), a philosopher who was born in Vienna and studied[Expand All]
This is a modern-style play that introduces the life and thoughts of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), a philosopher who was born in Vienna and studied at Cambridge. His main interest lies in studying the essence and limits of language. The film uses the simplest black background. All the investment is spent on costumes, actors and lighting. The composition is like a dark Enlightenment painting. Wittgenstein appears as a little boy. His teenage years are very depressing. On the screen, his family members all wear the wide Roman robes. A series of small scenes describe his life from childhood, through World War I, and eventually as a professor at Cambridge, collaborating with Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. Director Derek Jarman employed some theatrical sketches and imaginative tricks, such as the appearance of Martian dwarfs, to represent Wittgenstein's aristocratic demeanor, Jewish background, and homosexual tendencies.[Collapse]
