Heartbeat Detector (La Question humaine) - a French movie

Heartbeat Detector (2007, UK Release: May 16 2008) is a conspiracy thriller that uncover the hidden Nazi ideology in our ”modern” society. Heartbeat Detector is based on the novel La Question humaine (2000) by François Emmanuel. Heartbeat Detector is the third movie in a trilogy by Nicolas Klotz and Elisabeth Perceval that includes Paria (2000) and La Blessure (2004).

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François Emmanuel - In French: http://www.francoisemmanuel.be/
- La Question humaine: http://www.francoisemmanuel.be/question.html

Heartbeat Detector: http://www.heartbeatdetector.co.uk
- Synopsis and Interview with Nicolas Klotz and Elisabeth Perceval - The History that keeps coming back: http://www.heartbeatdetector.co.uk/synopsis.html

The New York Times, When the Ghost in the Machine Is National Socialism, March 14, 2008
http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/movies/14hear.html

Village Voice: Conglomerates Become Nazis in Heartbeat Detector, Corporate crimes meet crimes of humanity, March 11th, 2008
http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0811,bad-company,374071,20.html

New Statesman - The Way I See It: Nicholas Klotz and Elisabeth Perceval, 22 May 2008
http://www.newstatesman.com/2008/05/art-perceval-klotz-film-world

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Nazism is often considered to be mystical. However the Nazi ideology as well as totalitarian ideas are ONLY consequences to not regard dialog as a concrete tool. When the dialog is condemned we are forced to believe that we can only obey (logic). Reminder: Aristotle wrote that a contradiction is the opening of a dialog (and to grasp a new perspective). In Mein Kampf (1924) Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) wrote about this misconception - that is the root of Nazism:

"Man's effort to build up something that contradicts the iron logic of Nature brings him into conflict with those principles to which he himself exclusively owes his own existence. By acting against the laws of Nature he prepares the way that leads to his ruin." (From Mein Kampf: Volume I: A Retrospect, Chapter XI, Race and People)

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200601.txt
About Mein Kampf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf

Consequently to believe that we must be limited to logic is to be forced to eliminate everything that is a contradiction to for example the idea of ”nature”. Here ”nature” is in itself a concealed idea of what must be considered ”natural” or ”selfevident”.

If you are interested in Nazism and our ”modern” society I recommend:

Harald Ofstad (1920-1994)

- Our contempt for weakness: nazi norms and values - and our own, Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1989

- Vårt förakt för svaghet: nazismens normer och värderingar - och våra egna. Prisma, 1987


Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt

- The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ The_Origins_of_Totalitarianism

- Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963) - Den banala ondskan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Eichmann_in_Jerusalem


More about the relation between logic and the Aristotele´s idea of the dialog – that today is ”forgotten”: Get Rid of Our Final Taboo! - The Human Ability to Create is Thinkable, at:

http://home4.swipnet.se/~w-44374/hyperdialog/download.htm

In Vill du lyda eller förstå? (Do You want to obey or to understand?) ISBN 91-975929-3-5. I have so far written about the relation between Nazism and to disregard Aristotle's function of the dialog in the appendix: Anmälan till Justitiekanslern (Report to the Swedish Attorney General).