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« Back to the overview THERE IS NO NEED FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS TO DISCOVER THAT LIFE IS A GRAVE-YARD FULL OF FAILED PLANS... Director: Jörg A.EGGERS Camera: Franz KONRAD Author: Jörg A.EGGERS Crew: Schnitt: Inge WISTAWEL Year: 1976 Documentary (61 min.) This devastating assessment, which is often accepted with an air of self-pity, should not be adopted as a self-fulfilling prophecy. This film illustrates the causes for our daily failings. Causes can be troubled object-relationships, wrong wishes for and expectations of life resulting in a wrong attitude towards life. This can lead to the failure of our relationships or the lack of success in our job. Director and author J.A.Eggers can certainly not offer an easy solution to prevent us from failing. Nevertheless, he points to causes and by means of psychoanalysis explains how these are rooted in ourselves and the way we were raised. Human failing is therefore not something which is inevitable. Consequently we do not have to lose heart when our plans seem shattered. Instead we have to become aware of the fact that the causes may simply be a lack of creative adaptability to the situation or the inability to relate to the environment, etc.. In summary it can be said that we have learnt to fail early on in life and that it has become part of our expectation. Conversely it is possible to unlearn failing by creative means and the ability to think and act positively. This is a learning process as much as we have to give up well-acquainted modes of action and schemes. Present day society forces the individual more than ever to rely on itself. At the same time the individual has the chance to shape its relationships according to its needs. At the end of the film a sixteen-year-old boy commited a murder because of a bet. This murder should not only illustrate that the life of a ten-year-old is not worth more than a bet. Or that we value and judge people on the grounds of their money, their worthiness, their usefulness, their activities. The film is trying to point to the fact that we deal with people, objects and ourselves the way we have learnt it. This brings us back to the failing of our plans. Unlearning to fail is not only possible, but it is something we all will have to learn in order for society to work. If we can build object relationships, it is possible for us to develop a sense of self-worth and a positive identity. When such a process is hampered, then people around us are judged according to their worth. The result will be unhealthy social relationships, failed marriages, sadism, youth crime, murder, and finally when someone no longer serves a purpose – the “disposable individual”. There is no single solution to the problem. However, J.A.Eggers encourages us to provide room for creativity in our lives. Yet the encouragement and support of developing creative solutions has to take place during early educational processes. ....A very demanding, but important subject Neue Kronen Zeitung A serious attempt to search for the causes of social crisis among emotional coldness and the inability to love. Arbeiter Zeitung An important problem of which we were not aware of to that extent...A proof underpinning that documentaries do not have to be boring and certainly not unemotional. Wahrheit « Back to the overview