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But... couldn't anyone understand?


Well, everybody, I really apreciate all this noise about speed, the implausible bike, the distance and the matter on "was it a pro, it was not, he isn't good enough, the vehicle is not that fast", etc, etc

What is it all about? Seems very clear with just a few time thinking over it that we're talking about angry, anxiety, emptyness, the woken up and the sleepers, the destiny and the north on the compass, the final arrive and the desire of getting there as sooner as possible. Things almost never certain to many of that wandering in the streets.

Come on, please, don't you think filmmaker would give a damn on this discussion, the point running through this short is so, but so, so beyond all this questions!

It's a movie pulling us to face the needs of "getting there", specially when "you know where's there", and "why to go" and "how vital and tortuous and anguishing is to arrive..."

Guess it's a movie about time, surely, concerning to love, we could agree, showing life that's passing by us and may to finish at any corner, seems obvious...

But it's also and mainly an idea steered as an screaming scene of old feelings taking place in an old city, frequently recognized as an old stage of struggles and contests, populated in each crossroad with lost souls of History and stories.

See it. That place doesn't exists anymore, that angry isn't so touchable as it it was then, but we're all still running, aren't we??? Who knows where... Burning now not to fade away, as used to be preached in an antiquated song.

A rendez-vous in the morning of ancient Paris... To us, a rendez-vous with what?? How many of us wouldn't just run like that, if we only knew how. Time to wake up...

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Everyone who spends time arguing about the car or the driver is missing the point. It's about temerity and risking everything for a brief moment of perfection, not about going 140 miles per hour through Paris.

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Damn, you made IMDB good again. After so many hours of useless threading, about every single movie made in the world, I finally got called back to senses with both your comments. What a relief! It's pretty idiotic to go "easter egg hunting" about this, like it is some kind of playstation adventure. How about the smile on the girl's face, the whiteness of her clothes? How many analogies can you get out of that? Couldn't it be just a metaphor for humans, speeding thru life during wrong hours, running red lights and over sidewalks, almost wrecking it all up so many times, and in the end stopping for some peace, some silence? Yes, about the sound: the loud pitch of the screaming engine is so intelligent. It could have been a heartbeat, a song, whatever. No: it's a disturbing, confusing gas gulper of an engine that makes you stand on the tip of your chair. Then in the end, it's peace and quiet. Man, makes me wanna cry. I'm dreaming about getting this on a DVD and watching it properly in my house, lights off, on a big screen.

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I agree: this movie is about risking it all for a brief moment of perfection. But isn't driving the streets of Paris at 100 and something miles/hour itself part of this perfect moment? That's the impression I get: living the perfect moment.

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What are we racing for ?

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My mistake.
Fruitmouse.

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I think it is just a cool film about a Playboy who drives like a nutter.

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well said Fruit...

and

...'Hear Hear' Dakkio


Just rollicking good fun.

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Hey, fruitmousse!

I guess you choosed a good nickname for introduce your beautiful words to us. Does that refers to the present state of your brain? Maybe Lelouch car has passed over it, are you sure you weren't there in Paris and got caught by the driver??

Keep cool, my friend! Unfortunately (or fortunately, I dont know...) english is not my native language, sorry, I'm really sorry for mistakes, I just wanted to express what I felt moments after seeing the movie since a long time...

My point was just an attempt of telling someone about it. I apologyze my style, but trust me, I wish you could feel what I did during the shots of the film, the places, the angles, the morning city...

Perhaps your interpretation would be nearer of mine and we could be just good friends debating Lelouch.



p.s.: well, I'm 28, sorry if I frustate you, fruit. And dom-11, think of it, are all playboy's acts heedless or we could think a little bit about why they do that? This, of course, if we see this movie simply like "a cool film about a Playboy who drives like a nutter"...

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Well I didn't realise that English was not your first language so I guess I was out of order.

Fruit.

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I'd like to answer you, luke, but I guess I'm really sooo beneath you, as far as it could be, that you certainly won't understand me. Mainly because, as I said, english is NOT my native language, but... No, it's not an excuse.

But, please, keep posting on!! We need your wisdom!

"If always read our friend luke
Someday you'll become a language duke!"

That's what I always say...

(yeah, awful, i know it... But wait! Maybe that's why I am one of the 99.98!!!

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Well, apparently my IQ puts me in the top 0.50% percentile so this thread should be right up my street!!!

Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive.~ Robert M. Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

There is a real aesthetic beauty and simplicity about this film that speaks to me. Part of me will always be a hardened petrol-head, and to me the sound of a 275GTB is just about as perfect a sound as man has created.

There is a sheer unadulterated pleasure in driving, possibly to do with the idea that you are in control of your own destiny etc etc....

Has anyone on this thread had the chance to catch Nissan's new online ad "The Run" - the 350z on the streets of Prague, its a thinly veiled homage to this film, albeit a little less hairy chested, but its still worth a look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p87SA_OSl-4

Also the "Getaway in Stockholm" series, with the 911 Turbo, which really is red blooded.

http://www.getawayinstockholm.com/

There seems to be a whole raft of "illegal" driving movies to view on YouTube, I guess you can make your own mind up on them.

Marge, is Lisa at Camp Granada?

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poqw - One of the best postings on this entire web site! :-)

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Agreed, thank you poqw for a post with some real understanding.
And I also have to agree with corporate playboy; "the sound of a 275GTB is just about as perfect a sound as man has created".
Brilliant.

"Film is a mosaic of Time."
-A. Tarkovsky

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