dying

Webster 2022-09-21 11:57:43

Starting from the perspective of hospice care and taking the passion for life as the first principle, the moral foundation of the film is established, which greatly reduces the discomfort of the audience. In this way, sharp criticism and irony can be put forward to the alienated and hypocritical morality and system under the cloak of civilization. What is worth lamenting and pity for human beings is that most people do not have the courage to break through this layer until they are old. The so-called old age does not matter.

Important Lines 1 The twentieth century was not as bloody as everyone thought, with 100 million dead in wars, plus 10 million in the Soviet Gulag, and a total of 135 million in labor camps. good. In the 16th century, the Spanish and Portuguese wiped out 150 million South American Indians without gas and bombs. The biggest killing in human history happened here, not in a small museum of slaughter. Human history itself is a history of horror. 2 I have slept with peerless beauties all my life, and I didn't know I was old until one day I dreamed of being in the Caribbean Sea. 3 What you cannot give up is not your present life, but your past time, and the past time has long since passed 4 At least I have to leave some traces, a little achievement in my life is enough, you can explain it to yourself, and you will die. I feel more peaceful, but I have achieved nothing 5 I feel as poor and helpless as when I was born, I have not found the meaning of life, what I should be looking for, I must continue to look for....

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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.

  • Nathalie: It's not the present you cling on, it's your past life. That life is already dead.

    Rémy: Perhaps.