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Flex Mentallo

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  1. Flex Mentallo
    But then a voice calls out, "Parsifal!" He now recalls this name is what his mother called him when she appeared in his dreams.
  2. Flex Mentallo
    They soon fight and bicker among themselves to win his devotion, to the point that he is about to flee.
  3. Flex Mentallo
    The triumphant youth finds himself in a wondrous garden, surrounded by beautiful and seductive Flower-maidens.
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    Klingsor watches as Parsifal overcomes his knights, and they flee. Klingsor sees this young man stray into his Flower-maiden garden and calls to Kundry to seek the boy out and seduce him, but when he turns, he sees that Kundry has already left on her mission.
  5. Flex Mentallo
    She is now transformed once again into an incredibly alluring woman, as when she once seduced Amfortas. Klingsor observes that Parsifal is approaching and summons his enchanted knights to fight the boy.
  6. Flex Mentallo
    Klingsor conjures up Kundry, waking her from her sleep. He calls her by many names: First Sorceress (Urteufelin), Hell's Rose (Höllenrose), Herodias, Gundryggia and, lastly, Kundry.
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    When the lad appears confused by what he has witnessed, Gurnemanz dismisses him as just a fool and sends him out with a warning to hunt geese, if he must, but to leave the swans alone.
  8. Flex Mentallo
    He is taken to the castle, where he witnesses Amfortas unveil the shining light of the Grail during communion.
  9. Flex Mentallo
    Traveling through the forest below the castle, Parsifal (“fal parsi” = “holy fool”) slays a swan for which Gurnemanz, Knight of the Grail, chastises him.
  10. Flex Mentallo
    Amfortas later has a holy vision, which tells him to wait for a "pure fool, enlightened by compassion" who will finally heal the wound.
  11. Flex Mentallo
    It was here that Amfortas lost the Holy Spear, seduced by the irresistibly beautiful Kundry at the behest of Klingsor, who seizes the spear and wounds Amfortas.
  12. Flex Mentallo
    claiming the valley domain below and filling it with beautiful Flower-maidens to seduce and enthrall wayward Grail Knights.
  13. Flex Mentallo
    Klingsor then set himself up in opposition to the realm of the Grail, learning dark arts,
  14. Flex Mentallo
    Klingsor had yearned to join the Knights but, unable to keep impure thoughts from his mind, resorted to self-castration, causing him to be expelled from the Order.
  15. Flex Mentallo
    The Holy Spear, which pierced the side of the Redeemer on the Cross, and the Holy Grail, which caught the flowing blood, had come to Monsalvat to be guarded by the Knights of the Grail under the rule of Titurel, father of Amfortas.
  16. Flex Mentallo
    Amfortas, King of the Grail Knights, lies in the castle of Monsalvat bearing a wound that never heals.
  17. Flex Mentallo
    HEALING THE WOUND
  18. Flex Mentallo
    In this immensely ambitious work Syberberg presents Wagner's life, music and thought. He also presents a critique of those same things, whilst mounting a sumptuous and resonant production of the opera that is a feast for the eyes and ears, as Newsweek said, "The film performs the extraordinary feat of both splendidly presenting and forcibly challenging a consummate work of art."
  19. Flex Mentallo
    Hence Syberberg also allows Edith Clever's bravura performance to unfold, so that he lets us experience Parsifal with an intensity and directness not possible on the stage.
  20. Flex Mentallo
    Syberberg often used very long takes, with a complex choreography of camera movements, to keep the attention on the drama, and to avoid breaking up the slow unfolding of Wagner's musical themes by cuts in the images.
  21. Flex Mentallo
    Yet the acting performances themselves are traditional and the concentration of the camera on the performers' faces focuses the attention on the emotion at the heart of the opera.
  22. Flex Mentallo
    We see various puppets of Wagner, including a realization of André Gill's caricature of Wagner hammering at a human ear.
  23. Flex Mentallo
    The destruction of Germany is evoked at the beginning with postcards of the ruins.
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    The approach to the hall of the Grail is down a flag-lined corridor -- a procession, backward in time, through the history of Germany into a world of myth.
  25. Flex Mentallo
    Mathilde Wesendonk and Judith Gautier are glimpsed among the flower maidens.