The notion of false activity

I pick up this notion from Zizek, in his The courage of hopelessness. The compulsive reaction to some disrupting realities can be precisely this, to act, or to react, not to achieve something, but to avoid something to happen. Concentrating the attention on other subjets, and trying to not talk about what is most important. To impose oneself a big amount of tasks to not do the most important task: to face the real problems.

Democracy always

The power of the media and the counterpower of people. The particular interest of some people in front the general interest of the society. How is possible for this to happen... than the interest of a minority could be imposed over the general interest of the people ?

Democracy now

CHANGING LANES - Roger Michell (2002)

Nothing is Black or White, everything is Grey, more or less Grey, but Grey. Nobody has the Truth, but everybody has a little part of it. Sharing our part of the Truth and hearing the others one, maybe this is the way to approach the whole Truth. Everybody is able to do the best and the worst, it's merely a question of circumstances.

Winterbottom, M. - 2002 - In This World

First feeling after watching this film: Some kind of sickness in front of the injustice of the world.
Second thought: How lucky I'm to be born in the First World. Immediately after this: How insensitive can be the Men to the suffering of our brothers.

Polanski, R. - The Ghost Writer

Any likeness with a real person should be searched for...
At any field the reality seems to be closer to the fantasy than in politics.

Bigelow, Kathryn - The hurt locker

The dark and bloody side of the human being. Is better not wake it up, because once it's rolling on you're not going to be able to stop it.
Looking for an adrenaline download. Anything else can fill his wide, anything but the death face. In the treshold between death and life, only there can he feel himself alive.

Soderberg - Sex, Lies & Videotape

The power of words, the power of talking and the power of listening.

Coppola, Francis Ford - Dracula

"Love never dies", this is the second tittle of the film and, maybe also, the author's message. This film is said to be the closer version to the original Bram Stocker's book. As I'm not read the book I can't certify this, but it's really a good story.

Upperbrotherhood

It's just like a feeling of upperbrotherhood fired because of injustice, when who is under the effect is someone hardlinked on you, so yourself are touched directly in your soul. More this person seems to be unpowerful to face this injustice, more you feel attached to his suffering.

The consciousness of possibility

“...He was wondering aimlessly one November afternoon with his friend D. Nothing was happening. But in each of them, at that moment, a sense of infinite possibilities. Nothing was happening. Or else one could say that it was this consciousness of possibility, in fact, that was happening”. P. A.


The consciousness of possibility as something that allow you breath, as something that guaranty you to have a widely open horizon to explore by yourself. The consciousness of possibility as vanishing point as much as upward point.

Voice of truth

“... if there is a voice of truth --assuming there is such a thing as truth, and assuming this truth can speak-- it comes from the mouth of a woman.” P. A.

Is their closer connection with nature, is their intuition, is their special sensibility... I don't know what it is, but women seem to have the privilege to be talked through by the truth.

Mirage

“Just because you wander in the desert, it does not mean there is a promise land”, P. A.
Used to live in the desert, when he saw a promised land he thought that it was not real and he kept going on. A mirage or an illusion, or how to be scared of your own good luck. I never had thought this could be possible, so to be consistent with myself I'm gonna do my best to deny the fact of my good luck.

Genius or Mad

The thin line that separes genius from mad... The same exteriority, the same careless for the conventions, a kind of excentric point of view.

To be alive into the world

Writing about the world for living in the world, or to be alive into the world. But it's possible to live in another place? It's possible to live into the nothing? Or this simply means that one doesn't exist at all? The act of writing as the act of doing reality, of giving shape to the passing time, of giving sense to the meaninglessness of the everyday acts.

Forgetfulness

What I could do, and what I want to. Or, in other words, if you don't choose your circumstances, the circumstances are going to choose for you.

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“Memory, then, not so much as the past contained within us, but as proof of our life in the present. If a man is to be truly present among his surroundings, he must be thinking not of himself, but of what he sees. He must forget himself in order to be there. And from that forgetfulness arises the power of memory. It is a way of living one's life so that nothing is ever lost.” (P. A., The invention of solitude). Now I understand a little better my lacks of memory.

The inner life

The inner life as what gives sense to everything that cannot be shared in our social actions. Even our social actions are only completely understood by reference to this self-perception.

Other's people suffering

The power of feeling other's people suffering, this is the mankind unit of mesuring. The capacity of being affected for injustice, for pain and for love that other people live.

Chocolat

The symbolic elements that show more things than they say. There are different readings, several interpretations, some of them more evidents and others more reluctant to appear. “Chocolat” itself as a symbol of life, but in its specific shape or kind that corresponds, that is relatif to everyone, his individual lacks. What everyone prefers it's what everyone needs, because it would be like a physiologic wisdom that identify what elements our body must get to recover a lost ideal state.

Absence and Presence

Maybe the question of objectivity is not relevant in this case. Is not the will of truth what compels P.A. to talk about his father, it's a deeper need related to Life and Death, linked with Absence and Presence. Maybe is the need to talk enough to be able to let it behind forever more.