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Justen 2022-08-29 20:01:57
Tragedy at the Heart of Absurd Comedy
Thanks to the subtitles team for typing out the Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the end of the credits, because this year's Oscar materials have been blocked badly on some commonly used websites. Also because of this line of reminders, it was discovered that the skin dealer was...
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Demario 2022-08-29 22:45:46
notes
The film begins with the artist's manifesto: I turn him into a commodity, a canvas, so that he can cross the walls of national borders. Now the flow of commodities is more free than the flow of human beings, and I have turned him into a commodity, so that he can restore his humanity and freedom...
Husam Chadat
The Man Who Sold His Skin quotes
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Sam Ali: Don't take it badly, ok? fuck you.
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Jeffrey Godefroi: Some pessimists rule that art is dead. Well, I think art has never been more alive than it is today. With my latest work I am exploring a new realm... we live in a very dark era where if you are Syrian, Afghan, Palestinian and so on, you are persona non grata, hmm? The walls rise. And I just made Sam a commodity, a canvas. So now he can travel around the world. Because in the times we are living, the circulation of commodities is much freer than the circulation of a human being. Thus by transforming him into some kind of merchandise, he now will be able, according to the codes of our time, to recover his humanity and his freedom. Now, that's quite a paradox, isn't it?
[laughs]
Jeffrey Godefroi: Sorry, it's not funny.
