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The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg 1927
The continuation of our current lives is only made possible by the refusal of what would make those very lives worth living.
"Isn't there something in analytic discourse that can introduce us to the following: that every subsistence or persistence of the world as such must be abandoned?"
"You must change your life."
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Othon 1970
A point on clarity, setting and adaptation for Straub-Huillet
The copresence of “ancient” and “modern” place-features in Othon and other S-H movies inspires readings of the ancient stories as flatly allegorizing (i.e. telling one story to transmit some other lesson) our modern political struggles by signaling some persistence or timelessness of the story’s lesson. This matches well with what Tag Gallagher recognizes as S-H's desire for clarity, but the truth is that these places are not really ancient: Palatine Hill…
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The Algerian War! 2014
I'm finally beginning to understand: it all hangs on a pun of "guerre" ("war") and "guérir" ("to cure"), for as the book's subtitle explains, a means of resolution to stress, anxiety and depression without medicine or psychoanalysis. War was a false solution, and our rebellious soldier is looking to actually cure those wrongs, without medicine or psychoanalysis. Two "wrongs" don't make a "right"; but instead a "wrong" must be negated, and “only violence helps where violence rules.”
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