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Pascal's Thoughts: Eric's Morality
Ora 2022-03-21 09:03:26
In my opinion it's a perfect movie with a good story, good acting, and more importantly, philosophy, and Pascal. Rohmer was too silent in front of his great colleagues of the time, not as sharp as Godard, nor as internationally known as Tenuf, he always avoided public appearances, as in his films. silence. The film is the best of the six moral tales, full of intellectual flair. The topics discussed are also more in-depth. Pascal and his unfinished "Book of Thoughts" are mentioned many times in the film. Pascal is probably the most famous genius in France, and his famous "Pascal's Bet" is well known. The protagonist in the movie also seems to have made a love bet, but we don't know if he won the bet. Pascal's doubts about God are also used in this film. The protagonist is also doubting his own morality. The back of the movie is a riddle given by the director to the audience, right? Is our own Taoism okay? Kant believes that human beings are moral when they do something because they consider the rationality of the event rather than the consequences of the event. Rohmer seems to have the same meaning here.
Extended Reading
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Maud: You do shock me.
Jean-Louis: So you've said.
Maud: You're the most outrageous person I've met. Religion has always left me cold. I'm neither for nor against it. But people like you prevent me from taking it seriously. All that really concerns you is your respectability. Staying in a woman's room after midnight is dreadful. It would never occur to you to stay because I'm lonely. To establish a slightly less conventional relationship even if we should never meet again. This I find stupid - very stupid and not very Christian.
Jean-Louis: It's nothing to do with religion. I just thought you might be tired.
Maud: Do you still think so?
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Maud: What I don't like about you is that you always dodge the issue. You don't face up to things. A shamefaced Christian combined with a shamefaced Don Juan.