Notre Musique - Jean Luc Godard (by icsprks)
“Goodness is fire. When we’re closer to it, we feel warmth. This is love. That’s why finding favorite people to be with, a favorite place to be, or a favorite thing to do, is important. It funnels all the joy we get from being in a big world of great stuff into one thing we can understand, like a family, a home, or a passion. It gives laser-beam focus to our love.”
“There’s something to be said, I suppose, about curating oneself. At our core we are a collection of what we hold dear. Along the way we discard that which we do not need, or what drags us down, or what we are simply done with.”
Humanity, how fucking dare you fuck with this koala!
“It was to the nose that the street made one of its strongest appeals, and Mrs. March pulled up her window of the coupé.”Why does he take us through such a disgusting street?” she demanded…
“This driver may be a philanthropist in disguise,” he answered, with a dreamy irony, “and may want us to think about the people who are not merely carried through this street in a coupé, but have to spend their whole lives in it, winter and summer, with no hopes of driving out of it, except in a hearse…Should we be as patient as they are with their discomfort? I don’t believe there’s steam heat or an elevator in the whole block. Seven rooms and a bath would be more than the largest and genteelest family would know what to do with. They wouldn’t know what to do with the bath anyway.”
“His world, like most worlds, had been superficially a disappointment. He was no richer than at the beginning, though in marrying he had given up some tastes, some preferences, some aspirations, in the hope of indulging them later, with larger means and larger leisure. His wife had not urged him to do it; in fact, her pride, as she said, was in his fitness for the life he had renounces; but she had acquiesced, and they had been very happy together. That is to say, they made up their quarrels or ignored them.”
“The spirit of social reform, based on new forms of industrial manufacturing and consumption, was translated into the first master plans for housing developments, and these concepts for urban planning became schema that were used strategically for very different social groups, having in common only their use as a tool for governing life and the living being. As spatial organization and urban planning served to strategically control and mobilize a population, and appropriate its territory, so did it also claim to shelter this same population.”
LOOKATTHISFUCKINGCORGIPUPPPY! Yeah, internet, I know you’re jealous.
n. a kind of psychological exoskeleton that can protect you from pain and contain your anxieties, but always ends up cracking under pressure or hollowed out by time—and will keep growing back again and again, until you develop a more sophisticated emotional structure, held up by a strong and flexible spine, built less like a fortress than a cluster of treehouses.
“Nations have a way of creating their own cages. The promise of mobility found its limits in the fiskal tax (of around $100) imposed on anyone hoping to leave the country. It found its limits in the longtime domination of national airwaves by a government monopoly, by an ingrained regime of self-monitoring and censorship. And it found its limits in an unstable local economy unable to fulfill its promise of progress.”
