Weak film that offers little in the way of context for those unfamiliar with the French music scene. Moreover, the non-French may find the subtlety of the cultural references too obscure to be either meaningful or entertaining.
The eponymous character never comes alive as a character and we do not emotionally engage with him as we should - unlike Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose. This is little more than a parade of famous French celebrities without any real depth as drama - albeit with some rather good music.
The central theme of the negative psychological affects of White supremacism is never explored - as if it were a given requiring no elaboration. Having affairs with beautiful women was little more than a vain means of purchasing a sense of being attractive as a man when the White world likes to depict Jews as physically repulsive.
Wednesday 6 October 2010
Gainsbourg
[Vie héroïque]
(2010)
40%
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Science:
Sleep of Reason:
The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.
(1746-1828), Spanish painter. Caption to Caprichos, number 43, a series of eighty etchings completed in 1798, satirical and grotesque in form.
Humans & Aliens:
I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.
(circa 190-159 BC), Roman dramatist. Chremes, in The Self-Tormentor [Heauton Timorumenos], act 1, scene 1.
Führerprinzip:
One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves… There is no organ of conciliation or mediation interposed between the leader and the people, nothing in fact but the apparatus - in other words, the party - which is the emanation of the leader and the tool of his will to oppress. In this way the first and sole principle of this degraded form of mysticism is born, the Führerprinzip, which restores idolatry and a debased deity to the world of nihilism.
(1913-60), French-Algerian writer & philosopher. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt: New York: Vintage Books, (1984; page 182.)
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