![]() ![]() Films in which we often hear barking dogs, people who talk about dogs, bark like dogs and act like ferocious, wild animals. That analogy, I will argue, is interesting and potentially useful when exploring the films of David Lynchs. In doing so, however, the well-meaning people often end up creating a pressure-cooker-like situation where the dogs gnaw at each other and become increasingly aggressive or even perverted. Trying to describe the ascetic philosophy, Nietzsche uses an analogy of dogs in the basement – where those who try to live in accordance with the ascetic ideals of poverty, humility and chastity often take the “dogs” and place them in the basement, hoping to silence the dogs and believing that they live peacefully in the cellar without “hostile barking and shaggy rancune” (Nietzsche 2007 : 78). ![]() ![]() In his seminal essay Zur Genealogie der Moral (1872, On the Genealogy of Morality), the German philosopher Friederich Nietzsche writes at great length about morals and the so-called ascetic ideals. “Who the hell owns that dog?” – Fred Madison (Bill Pullman), Lost Highway (1997) ![]()
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