Vivre Sa Vie
My Life to Live, Jean-Luc Godard
To communicate, one must talk, that is our life
Yes, but it is very difficult
I think life should be easy
Your talk of The Three Musketeers may make a good story but it's terrible
Yes, but it's a pointer
I believe one learns to talk well only when one has renounced life for a time
That's the price.
-So, to speak is fatal?
Speaking is almost a resurrection in relation to life
Speech is another life from when one does not speak
So, to live in speech one must pass through the death of life without speech
I may not be putting it clearly, but there is a kind of ascetic rule that stops one from talking well until one sees life with detachment
But one can't live everyday life
with... I don't know
With detachment
We balance, that's why we pass from silence to words
We swing between the two because it's the movement of life
From everyday life one rises to a life we call superior
The thinking life
But this life presupposes one has killed the everyday
too elementary life
Then thinking and talking are the same thing?
So I believe
Plato said so; it's an old idea
One cannot distinguish the thought from the words that express it
An instant of thought can only be grasped through words
So one must talk and risk lying?
Lies, too, are part of our quest.
Errors and lies are very similar
I don't mean ordinary lies
Like I promise to come tomorrow, but I don't, as I didn't want to
You see, those are ploys
But a subtle lie is little different from an error
One searches and can't find the right word
That's why you didn't know what to say
You were afraid of not finding the right word. That's the explanation
How can one be sure of having found the right word?
One must work
It needs an effort
One must speak in a way that is right, doesn't hurt
says what has to be said,
does what has to be done
without hurting or bruising
One must try to be in good faith
Someone told me: "There is truth in everything, even in error."
That's true. France didn't see it in the seventeenth century
They thought one could avoid error
and what's more, that one could live directly in the truth
It isn't possible
Hence Kant, Hegel, German philosophy: to bring us back to life
and make us see that we must pass through error to arrive at the truth
What do you think about love?
The body had to come into it
Leibnitz introduced the contingent
Contingent truths and necessary truths make up life
German philosophy showed us that in life, one thinks with the
servitudes and errors of life
One must manage with that,
that's true
Shouldn't love be the only truth?
For that, love would always have to be true
Do you know anyone who knows at once what he loves?
No. When you're twenty you don't know
All you know are bits and pieces, you make arbitrary choices
Your "I love" is an impure affair
But to be completely at one with what you love, you need maturity
That means searching.
This is the truth of life
That's why love is a solution,
on condition that it is true.
What an amazingly tailored film. Anna Karina is beautiful beyond words. The film moved at a pretty consistent pace until that amazing piece of dialogue in the cafe between Anna's character and this old man.
"Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself."
Maybe a real update soon.
To communicate, one must talk, that is our life
Yes, but it is very difficult
I think life should be easy
Your talk of The Three Musketeers may make a good story but it's terrible
Yes, but it's a pointer
I believe one learns to talk well only when one has renounced life for a time
That's the price.
-So, to speak is fatal?
Speaking is almost a resurrection in relation to life
Speech is another life from when one does not speak
So, to live in speech one must pass through the death of life without speech
I may not be putting it clearly, but there is a kind of ascetic rule that stops one from talking well until one sees life with detachment
But one can't live everyday life
with... I don't know
With detachment
We balance, that's why we pass from silence to words
We swing between the two because it's the movement of life
From everyday life one rises to a life we call superior
The thinking life
But this life presupposes one has killed the everyday
too elementary life
Then thinking and talking are the same thing?
So I believe
Plato said so; it's an old idea
One cannot distinguish the thought from the words that express it
An instant of thought can only be grasped through words
So one must talk and risk lying?
Lies, too, are part of our quest.
Errors and lies are very similar
I don't mean ordinary lies
Like I promise to come tomorrow, but I don't, as I didn't want to
You see, those are ploys
But a subtle lie is little different from an error
One searches and can't find the right word
That's why you didn't know what to say
You were afraid of not finding the right word. That's the explanation
How can one be sure of having found the right word?
One must work
It needs an effort
One must speak in a way that is right, doesn't hurt
says what has to be said,
does what has to be done
without hurting or bruising
One must try to be in good faith
Someone told me: "There is truth in everything, even in error."
That's true. France didn't see it in the seventeenth century
They thought one could avoid error
and what's more, that one could live directly in the truth
It isn't possible
Hence Kant, Hegel, German philosophy: to bring us back to life
and make us see that we must pass through error to arrive at the truth
What do you think about love?
The body had to come into it
Leibnitz introduced the contingent
Contingent truths and necessary truths make up life
German philosophy showed us that in life, one thinks with the
servitudes and errors of life
One must manage with that,
that's true
Shouldn't love be the only truth?
For that, love would always have to be true
Do you know anyone who knows at once what he loves?
No. When you're twenty you don't know
All you know are bits and pieces, you make arbitrary choices
Your "I love" is an impure affair
But to be completely at one with what you love, you need maturity
That means searching.
This is the truth of life
That's why love is a solution,
on condition that it is true.
What an amazingly tailored film. Anna Karina is beautiful beyond words. The film moved at a pretty consistent pace until that amazing piece of dialogue in the cafe between Anna's character and this old man.
"Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself."
Maybe a real update soon.