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."
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