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Jayne 2022-11-07 08:37:27
Words betray thoughts, unforgettable philosophies
This old new wave movie was a little boring when I watched it, and I couldn't forget many details after watching it. The following details are arranged in reverse order of memory...
1) In the restaurant, the old man and the prostitute Nana face to face chatting about Kant and Hegel, about thoughts... -
Eula 2022-11-03 05:31:00
Susan Sontag - Godard's Vivre Sa Vie
1. "All art tends towards the formal, toward a completeness that must be formal rather than substantive--endings that exhibit grace and design, and only secondarily convince in terms of psychological motives or social forces... It is form that allows one to terminate."
"The one false step in Vivre...
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The Philosopher: Have you read, "The Three Musketeers"?
Nana: No. But, I saw the movie. Why?
The Philosopher: Because in it, Porthos - actually, this is from "Twenty Years Later" - Porthos is tall, strong, and a little dense. He's never had a thought in his life. He has to place a bomb in a cellar to blow it up. He does it. He places the bomb, lights the fuse, and starts to run away. But just then he begins to think. About what? How it's possible to put one foot in front of the other. I'm sure that's happened to you. So he stops running. He can't move forward. The bomb explodes and the cellar caves in around him. He holds it up with his strong shoulders. But after a day or two, he's crushed to death. So the first time he thought, it killed him.
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The Philosopher: One should be able to express oneself. We manage to write things quite well. It's extraordinary that someone like Plato can still be understood. People really do understand him! Yet he wrote in Greek. 2,500 years ago? No one really knows the language, not exactly. Yet something gets through, so we should be able to express ourselves.
