Is it at all possible to change one another and the world we live in? Can we? Can we change ourselves? That's why Aristophanes wrote [Lysistrata]. To get things moving, to make people care. And to make us... to stop us sitting around believing we can do nothing. There are things we can do! And above all, he wants us to stop our thinking we're so marvelous. Here you sit, now, perfectly satisfied with yourselves. What you've just seen was a trifle. A comedy, nothing to take seriously. A real classic, nice and scholarly— yet nothing worth any reflection. You're sitting there like stuffed creatures. Say something! Don't you see? We've got to talk to each other. Please stop being so embarrassed and critical. People must be able to talk to each other. Don't you understand that it's we who make the world what it is?
THE GIRLS | FLICKORNA 1968, dir. Mai Zetterling
