Joost Zwagerman: Voor Alles Bang Geweest (2018)
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 50 minuten
Alternative title: Joost Zwagerman
Country:
Netherlands
Directed by: Coen Verbraak
Stars: Joost Zwagerman, Ronald Giphart and Bart Chabot
IMDb score:
7,4 (12)
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De filosoof
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A great documentary that simultaneously feels like a puzzle about the main question of why Joost Zwagerman committed suicide. If I try to piece this together based on what the talking heads say about him, I think Joost Zwagerman sought total control and felt he failed in it. In doing so, he revealed himself to be a true artist: if art is imposing your will on reality (to perfect it), then Zwagerman was adept at expressing his fears (of losing that control) in poetry and, thanks to his extensive knowledge, writing excellent essays about works of art, but building a world of his own in the form of a novel was less successful. In line with this, he sought recognition as a (great) artist and control over his life, which, however, slipped through his fingers: he became manic-depressive and egomaniacal, creating a world in which he was always right. He became obsessed with suicide as an expression of that failure, both as an event that leaves you alone (when someone else steps out) and as his own expression of that failure (by stepping out himself). The fact that he was adamantly opposed to any assisted suicide only underlines his morbid desire for control and perfection: life had to be perfect (or as desired and planned) and in that sense he continued to fight against chaos until the very end, while paradoxically that very attitude could only lead to failure, with suicide offering the only possibility of finally gaining control over one's own life.
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mrklm
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Author Joost Zwagerman was 51 years old when he took his own life on September 8, 2015. His eloquence and exceptional knowledge of literature and poetry made him a regular presence on Dutch television. Colleagues and friends look back on their time with Zwagerman with the motto, "(almost) nothing but good things about the dead." Verbraak complements the conversations effectively with television footage of Zwagerman, but could have approached the subject a little more critically.
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