experientia prima
(note: this is copied from the entry in the Chinese blog)
lorem ipsum. IN PRINCIPIVM CREAVIT DEVS CAELO ET TERRAM. the rest is the story of the babel. nam ipsa scientia protestas est, but in the real world the equally real realpolitik reigns. non possum vivere cum te, nec sine te. that’s why i’m singing you “con te partiro.” no, everything is unträgbar, insupportable, in short, unbearable. but arthur rimbaud never said, in his real life, “what is unbearable is that everything is bearable.” that was only a line fashioned by leonardo dicaprio, in agnieska holland’s total eclipse.
please do not mistake me as a cult film fetish, for the example that i have just given can be hardly called as cult. the real cult film belongs to that of, for example, krzysztof kieslowski, who is already dead. but yet, let us pay hommage to his “decalogue” — the ten commandments — series, and his “tricolor” series, bleu, blanc, rouge.