“Une nuit hantée par les fantômes et les spectres de l’Europe contemporaine…”

Am ales fraza de mai sus pentru a-mi incepe recenzia la acest film… Care, evident, nu va fi o recenzie.

…si spunea:

Language is a powerful means of propaganda. It’s the most public and the most secret at the same time. The effect of this propaganda isn’t produced by speeches, articles, and flyers. It seeps into the masses’ flesh and blood. Did you know we don’t have poor people anymore? Only people on modest incomes… words emptied of all meaning. It’s a break down of the language. A dead language. Neutral. Invaded by technical words. A language which gradually absorbs its humanity. Understand?

(Arie Neumann)

Acest fragment de conversatie mi-a adus aminte de un altul, din alta parte, dar la fel de dureros, la fel de adevarat:

In choosing the goals of modernity, an intellectual and practical agenda that focused on the XVII c. pursuit of mathematical exactitude and logical rigor, intellectual certainty and moral purity, Europe set itself on a cultural and political road that had led both to its most striking technical successes and to its deepest human failures. These failures are often ascribed to the rise of instrumental rationality, to a new regime of strict discipline, scrutiny, and control, and to the refashioning of cultural geographies and their associated anthropologies that directed the Enlightenment project. Enlightenment project informed and driven by a language of nature founded upon mechanist natural philosophy, which reduced nature to a mechanism and human to machines or automata.

La question humaine este un film care merita ascultat, vazut si, poate, dat mai departe.

Acest post este dedicat lui Stephen Toulmin, trecut intru cele pure anul trecut.

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Pentru cei interesati in dansul contemporan, happening & stuff, la un moment dat in film are loc o rave-party. Dupa ce i-a sfarsit, un tip improvizeaza, cu castile pe urechi, un dans haotic printre cei adormiti… Superb!