![]() Like a siren, she enchants every man (and one woman) into pure irrationality that leads to immorality and ultimately destruction. Based on Frank Wedekind’s two plays, Erdgeist (1895) and Die Büchse der Pandora (1905), the story centers around a young woman, Lulu (Louise Brooks), who puts everyone under her spell. Pabst’s masterpiece, Pandora’s Box (1929), a silent film and one of the best representatives of the Weimar German cinema. The power of such erotic intoxication and contradiction is perfectly encapsulated in G. ![]() This triad-pleasure/violence/tragedy-melts into one entity, and separate essences of all three aspects become difficult to distinguish. Any reason or will is abruptly erased.Īpart from inducing pleasure, eros is often tragic and violent. Eros creates battles of an interior life that reveal our double personalities and metaphysical masks we wear as we enter further into paroxysms of eros. An erotic experience can breathe new life into something, which was withering away or it can have a depleting effect. ![]() It has the potential to be both creative and destructive, and this dichotomy and seeming contradiction can evoke strange and mad behavior in people. ![]() Unless we’re incapable of any emotion, we can’t escape or evade it. The power and mystery of love is undeniable. ![]()
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