Review of The Ister (2004) by Y'ng Y — 07 Jul 2008

A very engaging glacial paced film with many interesting thoughts that would be difficult to encapsulate in a tiny review. To give you an idea, the film culminates in the middle with Heidegger's controversial position, industrial agriculture and the mechanized final solution mentioned in the same breath as the result of technology, the same technic which had its origins in Greek mythology through Prometheus stealing fire from Zeus as told by Bernard Stiegler (himself previously a thief before becoming a philosopher!) in the beginning of the film.

And the rest of the film is filled with discussions about time, memory, being, history, politics,etc. it is equally interesting for a viewer who is equipped with philosophical knowledge and a beginner like me who has much more to piece together towards the sad denouement at the source of the Danube.

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