Phil faces his faith again were he didn’t achieve suicide and continues his life, applied to Nietzsche concept of the eternal return, he starts to discover more and of his hidden character that he didn’t realize before and this is the melting point in this movie were Phil starts not to use the power of the eternal return towards himself, but towards others in good. Applying this act to Nietzsche concept, Nietzsche explains this act his theory of "eternal recurrence", in aphorism 341 of The Gay Science:
The Greatest Burden. What if a demon crept after thee into thy loneliest loneliness some day or night, and said to thee: "This life, as thou livest it at present, and hast lived it, thou must live it once more, and also innumerable times; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and every sigh, and all the unspeakably small and great in thy life must come to thee again, and all in the same series and sequence-and similarly this spider and this moonlight among the trees, and similarly this moment, and I myself. The eternal sand-glass of existence will ever be turned once more, and thou with it, thou speck of dust!"- Wouldst thou not throw thyself down and gnash thy teeth, and curse the demon that so spake? …show more content…
Nihilism is a factor of the eternal recurrence as explained by Nietzsche; Phil, frees himself from the boundaries of the society and explores his own materialism and excesses. When nihilism reaches its maximum, Phil gets stressed anxiety were he tries to commit suicide as he sees his life with no meaning and aim. The audience realized how Phil has lost values and norms then how he reconstructs these values and norms reaching a new level of humanity were Phil explores his hidden character and tries to be more meaningful in the
The Greatest Burden. What if a demon crept after thee into thy loneliest loneliness some day or night, and said to thee: "This life, as thou livest it at present, and hast lived it, thou must live it once more, and also innumerable times; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and every sigh, and all the unspeakably small and great in thy life must come to thee again, and all in the same series and sequence-and similarly this spider and this moonlight among the trees, and similarly this moment, and I myself. The eternal sand-glass of existence will ever be turned once more, and thou with it, thou speck of dust!"- Wouldst thou not throw thyself down and gnash thy teeth, and curse the demon that so spake? …show more content…
Nihilism is a factor of the eternal recurrence as explained by Nietzsche; Phil, frees himself from the boundaries of the society and explores his own materialism and excesses. When nihilism reaches its maximum, Phil gets stressed anxiety were he tries to commit suicide as he sees his life with no meaning and aim. The audience realized how Phil has lost values and norms then how he reconstructs these values and norms reaching a new level of humanity were Phil explores his hidden character and tries to be more meaningful in the