To have and not to hold

Dump for all the movie and book quotes I liked. Occasional clouds, cats, and streetlights.

[nikita6145]

Sometimes I think I'm a genius. And I wish I could just fast-forward my life to the part where everyone knows it.

-Mistress America, Noah Baumbach

[nikita6145]

Being a beacon of hope for lesser people... is a lonely business.

-Mistress America, Noah Baumbach

[warningsine]

[nikita6145]

[fourorfivemovements]

Un Beaut Matin/One Fine Morning (2022) - Dir.  Mia Hansen-Løve

[nikita6145]

“In January 1997, I finally arrive at the end of the world. This is the southernmost lighthouse in South America. Beyond this is South Pole. Suddenly I feel like going home. Even though home is far away, at that moment it feels very close. I promised Fai to leave his sadness here. I don’t know what he said that night. Maybe the recorder broke. I can’t hear anything on the tape. Just some strange noises, like someone sobbing.”

-Happy Together, Wong Kar Wai

[nikita6145]

"Did you get enough love, my little dove

Why do you cry?

And I'm sorry I left, but it was for the best

Though it never felt right

My little Versailles"

[nikita6145]

July 2021

[dyingenigma]

Great Freedom// Große Freiheit (2021) dir. Sebastian Meise

[albertserra]

Great Freedom / Große Freiheit (2021) dir. Sebastian Meise

[nikita6145]

"Love him,’ said Jacques, with vehemence, ‘love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters? And how long, at the best, can it last, since you are both men and still have everywhere to go? Only five minutes, I assure you, only five minutes, and most of that, helas! in the dark. And if you think of them as dirty, then they will be dirty— they will be dirty because you will be giving nothing, you will be despising your flesh and his. But you can make your time together anything but dirty, you can give each other something which will make both of you better—forever—if you will not be ashamed, if you will only not play it safe.’ He paused, watching me, and then looked down to his cognac. ‘You play it safe long enough,’ he said, in a different tone, ‘and you’ll end up trapped in your own dirty body, forever and forever and forever—like me."

James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

[nikita6145]

[663 finds his apartment is flooded]

Cop663: Did I leave the tap running, or is the apartment getting more tearful? I always thought it would cope okay. Didn't expect it to cry so much. When people cry, they can dry their eyes with tissues. But when an apartment cries, it takes a lot to mop it up.

-Chungking Express

[nikita6145]

“Actually, really knowing someone doesn't mean anything. People change. A person may like pineapple today and something else tomorrow.”

-Chungking Express

[nikita6145]

“If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries.”

-Chungking Express

[nikita6145]

It is accomplished by the oppressors depositing myths indispensable to the preservation of the status quo: for example, the myth that the oppressive order is a "free society"; the myth that all persons are free to work where they wish, that if they dont like their boss they can leave him and look for another job; the myth that this order respects human rights and is therefore worthy of esteem; the myth that anyone who is industrious can become an entrepreneur—worse yet, the myth that the street vendor is as much an entrepreneur as the owner of a large factory; the myth of the universal right of education, when of all the Brazilian children who enter primary schools only a tiny fraction ever reach the university; the myth of the equality of all individuals, when the question: "Do you know who you're talking to?" is still current among us; the myth of the heroism of the oppressor classes as defenders of "Western Christian civilization" against "materialist barbarism"; the myth of the charity and generosity of the elites, when what they really do as a class is to foster selective "good deeds" (subsequently^ elaborated into the myth of "disinterested aid," which on the international level was severely criticized by Pope John XXIII); the myth that~the dominant elites, "recognizing their duties," promote the advancement of the people, so that the people, in a gesture of gratitude, should accept the words of the elites and be conformed to them; the myth that rebellion is a sin against God; the myth of private property as fundamental to personal human development (so long as oppressors are the only true human beings); the myth of the industriousness of the oppressors and the laziness and dishonesty of the oppressed, as well as the myth of the natural inferiority of the latter and the superiority of the former.

Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the oppressed

[nikita6145]

The same divisive effect occurs in connection with the so-called "leadership training courses," which are (although carried out without any such intention by many of their organizers) in the last analysis alienating. These courses are based on the naive assumption that one can promote the community by training its leaders—as if it were the parts that promote the whole and not the whole which, in being promoted, promotes the parts. Those members of the communities who show sufficient leadership capacities to be chosen for these courses necessarily reflect and express the aspirations of the individuals of their community. They are in harmony with the way of living and thinking about reality which characterizes their comrades, even though they reveal special abilities which give them the status of "leaders." As soon as they complete the course and return to the community with resources they did not formerly possess, they either use these resources to control the submerged and dominated consciousness of their comrades, or they become strangers in their own communities and their former leadership position is thus threatened. In order not to lose their leadership status, they will probably tend to continue manipulating the community, but in a more efficient manner.

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the oppressed

[nikita6145]

Young people increasingly view parent and teacher authoritarianism as inimical to their own freedom. For this very reason, they increasingly oppose forms of

action which minimize their expressiveness and hinder their self-affirmation. This very positive phenomenon is not accidental. It is actually a symptom of the historical climate which (as mentioned in chapter 1) characterizes our epoch as an anthropological one. For this reason one cannot (unless he has a personal interest in doing so) see the youth rebellion as a mere example of the traditional differences between generations. Something deeper is involved here. Young people in their rebellion are denouncing and condemning the unjust model of a society of domination. This rebellion with its special dimension, however, is very recent; society continues to be authoritarian in character.

Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the oppressed