everything in life and death

Frieda 2022-10-19 14:13:37

A barbaric invasion, an invasion of a disease or a dying future into the present life. Was told of a sudden illness and then bedridden. Anger, powerlessness, fear, panic, even if you are an intellectual, read history with all your knowledge, and enjoy food, wine, sex and love, you should take it lightly, but you still have to experience this series of emotions. In the last scene, when the man with the big nose was lying on the chair, waiting for the death that was predicted in front of him, his relatives and friends said goodbye to him one by one, what was he thinking when he finally waited for the tranquility flowing in his veins to take him away ?

Is this man cowardly, or is his family and friends cowardly? He can also choose to die early, perhaps knowing that he is going to die, so he chooses a decent way.

In another movie I watched recently, the woman's father left quietly on the way to attend the 80th birthday of his former classmate. He got off the train and waited for his friends on the platform. The phone rang and he left all the everything.

I was in my twenties and started thinking about death, and then I felt scared and overwhelmed.

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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.

  • 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.