put your hand on the table

Annabell 2022-03-16 08:01:02

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 together, Verland asked Rimbaud, do you love me? Rimbaud said, I like you, do you love me?
yes i love it!
put your hand on the table Rimbaud still said the same thing, Rimbaud stroked Verland's palm lightly with the knife, leaving no trace, then he kissed his palm and smiled. Very warm picture.

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Total Eclipse quotes

  • [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!

  • [last lines]

    Arthur Rimbaud: I've found it. What? Eternity. It's the sun mingled with the sea.