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What this experience lets Jules do is question the value system that has structured his life, and the process of re-evaluating the importance of values is a very Nietzschean reaction. But, critically, Jules does not do this by lapsing into a religious metaphysics—he doesn’t claim that meaning is provided by an infinitely important heavenly realm.

“While he [Nietzsche] might think that Vincent’s nihilistic view of life is as bad as a dogmatic or religious one, he also claims that there is a way of going through life that is better than either of them: we can refuse to take any moral system (religious or nihilist) for granted and become the creators of meaning ourselves”

“Similarly, killing the father means killing the father’s power over us, and that means that we have to stop viewing him as God, we have to reject that fiction, that misinterpretation.”