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Kurtis 2022-11-10 02:29:07
first man in life
This man is a dad, and he never hides his complexities: knowledgeable and attractive, selfish and rude... He's not the one I can lean on when I'm sad; he's the one I don't understand , just tell me that life is unhappy nine times out of ten, women must know how to compromise... From a psychological...
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Daphney 2022-11-07 16:32:06
Warm father and son
A very warm film, similar to "Big Fish", it is about a father and son who are emotionally estranged. Before his father's death, he looked back on his unsuccessful but worthy of nostalgia life, and the father and son released their previous suspicions. Finally, the father died in the arms of his...
Micheline Lanctôt
The Barbarian Invasions quotes
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Rémy: [in French] Contrary to belief, the 20th century wasn't that bloody. It's agreed that wars caused 100 million deaths. Add 10 million for the Russian gulags. The Chinese camps, we'll never know, but say 20 million. So 130, 145 million dead. Not all that impressive. In the 16th century, the Spanish and Portuguese managed, without gas chambers or bombs, to slaughter 150 million Indians in Latin America. With axes! That's a lot of work, sister. Even if they had church support, it was an achievement. So much so tha the Dutch, English, French, and later Americans followed their lead and butchered another 50 million. 200 million dead in all! The greatest massacre in history took place right here. And not the tiniest holocaust museum. The history of mankind is a history of horrors.
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Rémy: We've been everything: separatists, supporters of independantists, sovereignists, sovereignity-associanists...
Pierre: At first, we were existentialists.
Dominique: We read Sartre and Camus.
Claude: Then Fanon, we became anti-colonialists.
Rémy: We read Marcuse and became Marxists.
Pierre: Marxist-Leninists.
Alessandro: Trotskyists.
Diane: Maoists.
Rémy: After Solzhenitsyn we changed, we became structuralists.
Pierre: Situationists.
Dominique: Feminists.
Claude: Deconstructionists.
Pierre: Is there an -ism we haven't worshipped?
Claude: Cretinism.
