Dionysianism
If you look hard enough, you can see Dionysianism in a lot of places. This is a state of mind where a person does all sorts of wild things. They are very free willed and adventurous. This is the very opposite of the more conservative Apolianistic life style lived by others. In the movie Gimme Shelter we see a lot of this. We see people doing all sorts of free spirited events.
Gimme Shelter is a great example of Dionysianism. In this movie they document a concert in San Francisco that is headlined the Rolling Stones. The people at this concert often striped in open site of everyone, and did other acts of craziness. The big controversy about this festival was that there were huge riots at the end of the show, when the Rolling Stones came on. Looking at the film, there didn't appear to be any Apolonion people at the show.
This lifestyle isn't just seen in this film. It can also be seen in the works of Nietzsche. If he could have seen this video, he would have flipped. There is way too much worshiping of Dionysis for him. He believed that every person has these two ways of thinking, that of Apollo and Dionysis, and we all need to find the right balance of these to succeed. He would have thought the two producers of this movie were crazy too because they put such a thing together.
There are some things we have talked about in class that have agreed with the movie. For instance, the Bacchae by Euripdes is a play featuring Dionysis as one of the lead characters. This play speaks highly of wild and crazy behavior, and killing, just like the movie.
I can only imagine what it must have been like at beat one of these concerts in the 1960's. It must have been a great feeling knowing that you were part of such a huge group of people and everyone had the same feelings as you did. O course, these were Dionysis-like feelings. I have been to a few concerts, but none of them were as crazy as the one we watched in the movie.
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...rall the performance was entertaining and delightful and most of the audience obviously thought so too. Musically the sound was definitely there. There was not a lot of crowd involvement in this type of performance, but the music was very easy to interpret, and plenty enjoyable anyway.
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...eft sobbing for mercy. These people such as Muslins, Satanist, and Wiccans later on converted to Christianity almost immediately after watching the film. Cases where murders and robbers, such as several women in a Florida penitentiary, confessed to the crimes they’ve committed after watching the film. In another case, a young man confessed to his girlfriend’s murder after watching the film. His girlfriend’s death was ruled as a suicide but turned himself later on from the enormous amount of guilt. If he had not confessed, the young man would’ve never been caught.
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...I like everything to be peaceful. Based on our Psychology book this movie falls into the Trait Perspective, were the aspect of personality that is inferred from behavior and assumed to give rise to constant behavior.