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/ He said there is only one movie that can describe that impossible memory, the crazy memory, Hitchcock's Vertigo. Hitchcock didn't create anything, it's already there, the horse's eyes are the same as Madeleine's

/He likes these vulnerable moments stuck in time

/People who have nothing, people who are empty, people of all kinds, honestly, don't you think it's a stupid thing to tell these people not to look at the camera, as taught in film school?

/ But it will never be passed down again, the rupture of history is cruel

/ The memory under each face will be replaced by those forged collective memories, the memories of thousands of individual traumas will be the pain of the whole history, which will be passed through very benevolent and calculated way to allocate.

/ They lost, and yet at the same time, the knowledge of the world they gained can only be won through struggle.

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/I think every memory in the world can create its own story

/Tokyo is crossed by trains and intertwined with wires, the whole city is a comic strip, the images are bigger than people, peeping at the voyeurs, and when the night comes, it will become a small country village.

/We all insist on sketching people on prison walls, using chalk to outline things, things that don't exist, don't exist anymore, or don't exist.

/ We each write down our own list of "touching things" to try and erase.

/ Twenty-fourths of a second of eternity, one frame of film time. The expression on her face can only exist for the length of a movie frame.

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  • Narrator: All women have a built-in grain of indestructibility. And men's task has always been to make them realize it as late as possible. African men are just as good at this task as others. But after a close look at African women I wouldn't necessarily bet on the men.

  • Narrator: Off Okinawa kamikaze dived on the American fleet; they would become a legend. They were likelier material for it obviously than the special units who exposed their prisoners to the bitter frost of Manchuria and then to hot water so as to see how fast flesh separates from the bone.

    Narrator: One would have to read their last letters to learn that the kamikaze weren't all volunteers, nor were they all swashbuckling samurai. Before drinking his last cup of saké Ryoji Uebara had written: "I have always thought that Japan must live free in order to live eternally. It may seem idiotic to say that today, under a totalitarian regime. We kamikaze pilots are machines, we have nothing to say, except to beg our compatriots to make Japan the great country of our dreams. In the plane I am a machine, a bit of magnetized metal that will plaster itself against an aircraft carrier. But once on the ground I am a human being with feelings and passions. Please excuse these disorganized thoughts. I'm leaving you a rather melancholy picture, but in the depths of my heart I am happy. I have spoken frankly, forgive me."