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Rebekah 2022-04-23 07:05:27
The thoughts I wrote in my diary last February...
I watched Total Eclipse at night. The Rimbaud played by Xiao Li is sincere, sharp and affectionate, and he is not sloppy. As for Verlaine, a word that is more suitable to describe him is "halfway" in Japanese. He was always running away from something, passion, love, family responsibilities, the...
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Annabell 2022-03-16 08:01:02
put your hand on the table
The movie says that the most unbearable thing is that anything can be tolerated. So Rimbaud stabbed the knife into Verlaine's palm, connecting his fingers to his heart. There was nothing more painful than this.
At the end of the film, Verland, imagining Rimbaud sitting opposite, drinking absinthe...
Romane Bohringer
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Paul Verlaine: You don't care about my happiness, do you?
Arthur Rimbaud: No, neither should you.
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[first lines]
Paul Verlaine: Sometimes he speaks in a kind of tender dialect of the death which causes repentence, of the unhappy men who certainly exist, of painful tasks and heartrending departures. In the hovels where we got drunk he wept looking at those who surrounded us, the cattle of poverty. He lifted up drunks in the black streets. He had the pity a bad mother has for small children. He moved with the grace of a little girl at catechism. He pretended to know about everything, business, art, medicine. I followed him, I had to!
