"ballet of surreality and repetition"--ruminations
from "Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture ":
concept from Kristin Ross (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin_Ross): to target women (comercially speaking) is to hit at the core of civilization itself. hmmm.
from "le petit soldat":
"force is stronger than intelligence" I have a terrifying feeling that in many cases this might damn well be true.
in a scene from "The Battle of Algiers," women of Algeria are used as bomb placers by dressing like the mainstream and smoothly gliding past hardcore security. which only confirms my suspicions that sometimes
the least dangerous ones are really the most dangerous
it seems the ladies' delicate sensibilities combined with the guards' acute sensitivities result in
thunderous destruction. how wrong you can be.
during one scene a woman wearing intricate veils hides a gun and supplies an assasin with it at just the right time. why is it exactly that they didn't think she could very well
pull the trigger?
important notations:
"Let's try to be precise. The word 'torture' is not mentioned in our orders."
"We are soldiers. Our duty is to win."
"Human consideration only causes despair."
"Why are the Sartres always born on the other side?" (to news that Sartre was publishing against the war with Algeria)
I think we cannot let the indecipherable quality of our world alienate us from the humanity in each other. I think other people cannot be obstructions but we must be interested.
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