Maurice Ronet is Alain Leroy in "The Wisp" (Louis Malle, 1963)
Ersadi Homayoun is Mr. Badii in "The Taste of Cherry" (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997)
- "There are fears, doctor. It's a heartache, continues ... The evil is in the heart of the will, is it to you heal ..."
Dr. Alain Leroy The Barbinais, in "The Wisp"
- "The word suicide is not made only for dictionaries ..., must have a ... practical application, the man has to decide when to do it ... "
Mr. Baddi the seminarian, in" The Taste of Cherry "
Dr. Alain Leroy The Barbinais, in "The Wisp"
- "The word suicide is not made only for dictionaries ..., must have a ... practical application, the man has to decide when to do it ... "
Mr. Baddi the seminarian, in" The Taste of Cherry "
recently called my attention to the figures provided by the Imelga ( Institute of Legal Medicine of Galicia ), according to which in 2009 took their own lives in our region 362 people, 57 more than in 2008. Probably not influence the increase economic and social crisis that is affecting us all. Experts say suicide every 40 seconds, a neighbor on this planet ...
The mathematics of suicide should be treated with reservations because it is subject to certain inaccuracies. In all ways, always in general terms, the WHO data ( World Health Organization ) reveal that the suicide rate is higher in Europe in Latin America, and that within this geographic highest figures correspond to Cuba, Brazil and Colombia , p or this order. Nor should we dismiss the suicide attempts are 20 times more frequent than accomplished.
If there is a profile of suicide that would be the subject of a male, aged 60, who lives alone and has since retired. Among young people are also men (between 14 and 29 years) who kill themselves over.
This statistical brief introduction serves to introduce two essential films revolving around a topic still taboo. And they do from two perspectives completely divergent.
"The Wisp" ( Louis Malle, 1963) is based on the eponymous book by French writer Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, who committed suicide on March 15, 1945 after ingesting barbiturates and inhalation of gas. Intentionally shot in black and white, has an impressive cinematography due to Ghislain Cloquet. The protagonist, Alain Leroy (the once attractive lover Maurice Ronet ) is a being troubled, disillusioned with life, which wavers between alcoholism and the fear of failure of treatment. We are faced with the living image of a patient anxious and depressed ...
turn, "The Taste of Cherry" ( Abbas Kiarostami, 1997), a paradigm of auteur cinema, is a pure exercise of minimalist poetry, a term chosen by critics to ponder the Iranian filmmaker's work.
Unlike the predictable Alain Leroy, the Mr. Badii (Homayoun Ersadi ) never reveals what are the reasons that led him to think about suicide. Only search someone you can trust to help you in your task.
If there is a profile of suicide that would be the subject of a male, aged 60, who lives alone and has since retired. Among young people are also men (between 14 and 29 years) who kill themselves over.
This statistical brief introduction serves to introduce two essential films revolving around a topic still taboo. And they do from two perspectives completely divergent.
"The Wisp" ( Louis Malle, 1963) is based on the eponymous book by French writer Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, who committed suicide on March 15, 1945 after ingesting barbiturates and inhalation of gas. Intentionally shot in black and white, has an impressive cinematography due to Ghislain Cloquet. The protagonist, Alain Leroy (the once attractive lover Maurice Ronet ) is a being troubled, disillusioned with life, which wavers between alcoholism and the fear of failure of treatment. We are faced with the living image of a patient anxious and depressed ...
turn, "The Taste of Cherry" ( Abbas Kiarostami, 1997), a paradigm of auteur cinema, is a pure exercise of minimalist poetry, a term chosen by critics to ponder the Iranian filmmaker's work.
Unlike the predictable Alain Leroy, the Mr. Badii (Homayoun Ersadi ) never reveals what are the reasons that led him to think about suicide. Only search someone you can trust to help you in your task.
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CONSIDERATIONS ON SUICIDE ...
The detailed study of both films we can find some clues that could shed light on the message that the authors tried to give us the viewers, which differs markedly from elected in his day, example, in the case of "Two Cassidy " (George Roy Hill , 1969), Mishima (Paul Schrader , 1985) or " Thelma and Louise " ( Ridley Scott, 1991).
there in" The Wisp " a significant scene, in which Alain roams his room at the sanatorium of Dr. La Barbinais , an elegant mansion situated in the nineteenth century Versailles, where he voluntarily entered for a rest cure and alcohol detoxification. On the walls of the room hang newspaper clippings and photographs. One of the pieces of paper up to Le Parisien and announces the unfortunate death of a 5 year old, hanged man accidentally while playing bird.
Among the photographs, we see more of the ill-fated Marilyn Monroe , died August 5, 1962 in mysterious circumstances, most likely a suicide by overdose of barbiturates. We also note the profusion of portraits of Dorothy , the beautiful wife of Alain, who lives in New York and religiously paid the monthly bill processing her husband. The breakdown of the couple was motivated precisely by alcoholism. Out of these frames, Dorothy never appears in the movie ... But it does his attractive friend Lydia (Léna Skerlos ), Alain alleged mistress.
For Dorothy some argue that in reality it is a very young Margarethe Von Trotta, German actress and director , bride filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff , Which in turn worked on this film as assistant director.
In a snapshot of the happy times, we can see Dorothy and Alain front of the post of second-hand books that proliferate on the banks of the Seine. He holds in his hands a copy entitled "Baudelaire" paradigm of damned poets, winners of drunkenness and big fan of alcohol and drugs ...
The protagonist of this film suffers from two major autolytic risk factors: firstly, its alcohol dependence, which only takes 4 months of abstinence, but always under a sword of Damocles called relapse, and if little, well suffers adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety - depression ... To all this, you must join the cruel loneliness of living. We could say without fear of error that "The Wisp" is the story of a bye, a slow parting of a neighbor who is tired of living an empty existence, vicious, helpless and without love ... To accomplish its goal, Alain stored in a briefcase a pistol, a Luger P08, perhaps in his time as a military ...
While the mirror Alain has written "23 July" ("the deadline has lapsed?) On the shelf packages abound " Sweet Afton ", their favorite cigarettes: it is an Irish brand of snuff blonde became very popular during the post-World War among the bohemians, artists and philosophers of the Rive Gauche . They were also the favorite of Jean Paul Sartre and filmmakers of the Nouvelle Vague .
Perhaps intentional presence of the brand of snuff has the purpose of referring to atheism philosophical father of Existentialism , for whom suicide meant the culmination of one's freedom (as long as there were no underlying disease). Something similar happens when choosing the terrace Louis Malle Café de Flore (which Sartre had a fixed table) to the scene of the brief encounter between right-wing brothers Alain and Minville ... Just here we see how Alain takes a drink of alcohol for the first time in the film.
also proliferate in the fourth books, among which we found two very significant titles: "Babylon Revisited" and "This side of paradise" , both F. Scott Fitzgerald. In The first, considered by critics a sincere autobiographical, the controversial American writer recounts the devastation that alcohol has on the protagonist's life. precisely the script "The Last Time I Saw Paris" ( Richard Brooks, 1954) was based on this novel ...
not seem to free philosophical references. At lunchtime, in the sanatorium who directs the Dr. The Barbinais (Jean-Paul Moulinot ), patients discuss Aquinas and Aristotle . Both parents of philosophy Classic had a very similar concept of suicide:
CONSIDERATIONS ON SUICIDE ...
The detailed study of both films we can find some clues that could shed light on the message that the authors tried to give us the viewers, which differs markedly from elected in his day, example, in the case of "Two Cassidy " (George Roy Hill , 1969), Mishima (Paul Schrader , 1985) or " Thelma and Louise " ( Ridley Scott, 1991).
there in" The Wisp " a significant scene, in which Alain roams his room at the sanatorium of Dr. La Barbinais , an elegant mansion situated in the nineteenth century Versailles, where he voluntarily entered for a rest cure and alcohol detoxification. On the walls of the room hang newspaper clippings and photographs. One of the pieces of paper up to Le Parisien and announces the unfortunate death of a 5 year old, hanged man accidentally while playing bird.
Among the photographs, we see more of the ill-fated Marilyn Monroe , died August 5, 1962 in mysterious circumstances, most likely a suicide by overdose of barbiturates. We also note the profusion of portraits of Dorothy , the beautiful wife of Alain, who lives in New York and religiously paid the monthly bill processing her husband. The breakdown of the couple was motivated precisely by alcoholism. Out of these frames, Dorothy never appears in the movie ... But it does his attractive friend Lydia (Léna Skerlos ), Alain alleged mistress.
For Dorothy some argue that in reality it is a very young Margarethe Von Trotta, German actress and director , bride filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff , Which in turn worked on this film as assistant director.
In a snapshot of the happy times, we can see Dorothy and Alain front of the post of second-hand books that proliferate on the banks of the Seine. He holds in his hands a copy entitled "Baudelaire" paradigm of damned poets, winners of drunkenness and big fan of alcohol and drugs ...
The protagonist of this film suffers from two major autolytic risk factors: firstly, its alcohol dependence, which only takes 4 months of abstinence, but always under a sword of Damocles called relapse, and if little, well suffers adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety - depression ... To all this, you must join the cruel loneliness of living. We could say without fear of error that "The Wisp" is the story of a bye, a slow parting of a neighbor who is tired of living an empty existence, vicious, helpless and without love ... To accomplish its goal, Alain stored in a briefcase a pistol, a Luger P08, perhaps in his time as a military ...
While the mirror Alain has written "23 July" ("the deadline has lapsed?) On the shelf packages abound " Sweet Afton ", their favorite cigarettes: it is an Irish brand of snuff blonde became very popular during the post-World War among the bohemians, artists and philosophers of the Rive Gauche . They were also the favorite of Jean Paul Sartre and filmmakers of the Nouvelle Vague .
Perhaps intentional presence of the brand of snuff has the purpose of referring to atheism philosophical father of Existentialism , for whom suicide meant the culmination of one's freedom (as long as there were no underlying disease). Something similar happens when choosing the terrace Louis Malle Café de Flore (which Sartre had a fixed table) to the scene of the brief encounter between right-wing brothers Alain and Minville ... Just here we see how Alain takes a drink of alcohol for the first time in the film. also proliferate in the fourth books, among which we found two very significant titles: "Babylon Revisited" and "This side of paradise" , both F. Scott Fitzgerald. In The first, considered by critics a sincere autobiographical, the controversial American writer recounts the devastation that alcohol has on the protagonist's life. precisely the script "The Last Time I Saw Paris" ( Richard Brooks, 1954) was based on this novel ...
not seem to free philosophical references. At lunchtime, in the sanatorium who directs the Dr. The Barbinais (Jean-Paul Moulinot ), patients discuss Aquinas and Aristotle . Both parents of philosophy Classic had a very similar concept of suicide:
- Aristotle is opposed to suicide, considering it as an attack against life itself. One who commits a coward, is disgraced as a person and his "Nicomachean Ethics" considers that the suicide also hurts the rest of the citizenry.
- St. Thomas understands suicide as a particularly perverse act, first by going against human nature (which would be provided to preserve and perpetuate life), second because it undermines the common good (depriving the family and society one of its valuable members) and finally, because it defies God, the giver of life, the owner and ruler of the same.
melancholy music of Erik Satie , represented in this soundtrack for the cream of their "Gymnopedies" and "Gnossiennes" , gives images of a depressed and lonely halo consubstantial as the meat attached to the bone forming a common whole.
When Alain leaves the hospital he returned to Paris in pursuit of his old mates raids. First visit the Hotel Du Quai Voltaire . There is reunited with Charlie the bartender ( René Dupuy) who tries to update you as he serves a Scotch Sour , his old first drink. The next stop is the house of Dubourg ( Bernard Noel), a former comrade now a parent bourgeois student of Egyptology. Both criticize their flaws and mediocrity. By the way, Dubourg wearing a fleece jacket identical to that carried on Alain rehab ... Alain
continues its journey to meet Eva (Jeanne Moreau ), disillusioned and melancholic artist for all time lost. Interestingly Alain, who has decided to take his life, regarded as absurd death in traffic accident Carla, mutual friend of both ...
While stormy rain washes the streets of Paris indolent, Alain reaches the luxurious home of Solange ( Alexandra Stewart) and Cyrille Lavaud ( Jacques Sereys ). There is here a brief reference to "King Ubu" , the iconoclastic play by Alfred Jarry . Alain
end their pilgrimage in the company of Michel Bostel Milou ( Bernard Tiphaine ), a handsome young man who strongly resembles what he was just 10 years ago. Thus the circle closes narrative, the wheel of life turns permanently ... Once reading "The Great Gatsby" (F. Scott Fitzgerald again!) Alain end up shooting yourself in the heart.
So far, the Western perception of suicide. Let's see what are now digging in "The Taste of Cherry." The warm morning light of Tehran is captured brilliantly by the director of photography Hormayon Payvar . The time puts us sometime between 1980 and 1988, interval during the Iran-Iraq war .
Kiarostami often works with non-actors, which brings its air of documentary films. A man travels the wheel of his vehicle on the city streets looking for someone. Anonymous faces offer to work as laborers. Aridity is taking over the landscape while the driver is wandering the hills surrounding the Iranian capital.
Looking for Tehran ...
A young man who runs a small construction establishment is the first choice, but wary the driver when he offers her money. The following is a laborer who collects plastic bags in a landfill and sell them later at a recycling plant. He wears a red sweatshirt with the letters "UCLA" ( University of California Los Angeles ) on the chest, although their significance is unknown. Neither accepts the offer of Mr. Badii.
The third candidate is a young recruit native of Kurdistan . The Kurds are a stateless nation, a people punished widely throughout history, and that inhabit a large area shared by Armenia, Turkey , Iran, Iraq and Syria .
Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari is the soldier
Old farmer, the boy returned to his camp from Damavand, a mountainous area 50 kilometers northwest of the capital. His meager welded barely covers her personal needs and not enough to help his extended family. Therefore, be tempted by Mr. Badii, who finally tells him what the work involved and generous pay. In its simplest form we learn of the protagonist's suicidal.
simply note here that after the successful initial attack Iraqi in 1983 the Iranian military began to regain ground lost in the war through the recruitment of young soldiers and 200000 100000 militants. The recruit tells Mr. Badii which only takes 2 months of military service (we imagine that he was recruited by force).
Mr. Badii has decided to end his life. He has dug a grave at the foot of a tree, amid the rugged landscape. Intended to return the soldier at the scene at 6 am the following day and that in the event that Mr. Badii is dead, cover the burial ground with 20 strokes. The recruit gets scared and runs away across the field.
Ochre Land, the vast rocky, desert and dust we are and where we become are present at all times. Continuing this kind of road movie initiation, Mr. Badii drives his Range Rover up a cement plant, guarded only by an Afghan immigrant. This speaks of the visit of a friend seminarian and then Mr. Badii cleric decides to propose to help you in your particular purpose.
Mir Hossein Noori is the seminarian
While Louis Malle introduced philosophical elements in his film, Kiarostami clearly now added religious component, reminding us through this character that the Koran strongly condemns suicide, in its most orthodox (taking one's life) but we would be getting into areas cumbersome when it comes to fight the Jihad or Holy War against infidels (suicide bombers to self-destruct the hope of reaching the Garden houris).
In this case, Mr. Badii tries to convince the cleric future arguing that suicide is a mortal sin such as being unhappy, because if you can suffer harm to others: "I believe that God is so merciful suffer not see any of your creatures is so great that I can not believe you want to force us to live. So the man offered this solution ... Mr. Badii not get the help of the seminarian.
The old Mr. Bagheri crossing the threshold of his work ...
His last hope is the Mr. Bagheri ( Abdolrahman Bagheri ) working in Tehran in the Department of dissection the National Museum of Natural Sciences , someone who is accustomed to working with dead bodies, but these correspond animals. This naturally wise man tells Mr. Badii than in the past the taste a simple cherry was able to make him abandon his own thoughts of suicide. He talks about the beauty of each evening and the fullness of the full moon. It also promises to do the job, burying the body of Mr. Badii if you finally decide to kill themselves by overdosing on sleeping pills.
The unexpected ending of this film contributes to its more grandiose, a fade to black as we will not know what was really troubled the fate of Mr. Badii ...
In closing, a few lines of Cesare Pavese , which ended its existence on August 26, 1950 with an overdose of sleeping pills!. Correspond to different moments of his work "The task of living ":
When Alain leaves the hospital he returned to Paris in pursuit of his old mates raids. First visit the Hotel Du Quai Voltaire . There is reunited with Charlie the bartender ( René Dupuy) who tries to update you as he serves a Scotch Sour , his old first drink. The next stop is the house of Dubourg ( Bernard Noel), a former comrade now a parent bourgeois student of Egyptology. Both criticize their flaws and mediocrity. By the way, Dubourg wearing a fleece jacket identical to that carried on Alain rehab ... Alain
continues its journey to meet Eva (Jeanne Moreau ), disillusioned and melancholic artist for all time lost. Interestingly Alain, who has decided to take his life, regarded as absurd death in traffic accident Carla, mutual friend of both ...
While stormy rain washes the streets of Paris indolent, Alain reaches the luxurious home of Solange ( Alexandra Stewart) and Cyrille Lavaud ( Jacques Sereys ). There is here a brief reference to "King Ubu" , the iconoclastic play by Alfred Jarry . Alain
end their pilgrimage in the company of Michel Bostel Milou ( Bernard Tiphaine ), a handsome young man who strongly resembles what he was just 10 years ago. Thus the circle closes narrative, the wheel of life turns permanently ... Once reading "The Great Gatsby" (F. Scott Fitzgerald again!) Alain end up shooting yourself in the heart.
So far, the Western perception of suicide. Let's see what are now digging in "The Taste of Cherry." The warm morning light of Tehran is captured brilliantly by the director of photography Hormayon Payvar . The time puts us sometime between 1980 and 1988, interval during the Iran-Iraq war .
Kiarostami often works with non-actors, which brings its air of documentary films. A man travels the wheel of his vehicle on the city streets looking for someone. Anonymous faces offer to work as laborers. Aridity is taking over the landscape while the driver is wandering the hills surrounding the Iranian capital.
Looking for Tehran ... A young man who runs a small construction establishment is the first choice, but wary the driver when he offers her money. The following is a laborer who collects plastic bags in a landfill and sell them later at a recycling plant. He wears a red sweatshirt with the letters "UCLA" ( University of California Los Angeles ) on the chest, although their significance is unknown. Neither accepts the offer of Mr. Badii.
The third candidate is a young recruit native of Kurdistan . The Kurds are a stateless nation, a people punished widely throughout history, and that inhabit a large area shared by Armenia, Turkey , Iran, Iraq and Syria .
Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari is the soldier Old farmer, the boy returned to his camp from Damavand, a mountainous area 50 kilometers northwest of the capital. His meager welded barely covers her personal needs and not enough to help his extended family. Therefore, be tempted by Mr. Badii, who finally tells him what the work involved and generous pay. In its simplest form we learn of the protagonist's suicidal.
simply note here that after the successful initial attack Iraqi in 1983 the Iranian military began to regain ground lost in the war through the recruitment of young soldiers and 200000 100000 militants. The recruit tells Mr. Badii which only takes 2 months of military service (we imagine that he was recruited by force).
Mr. Badii has decided to end his life. He has dug a grave at the foot of a tree, amid the rugged landscape. Intended to return the soldier at the scene at 6 am the following day and that in the event that Mr. Badii is dead, cover the burial ground with 20 strokes. The recruit gets scared and runs away across the field.
Ochre Land, the vast rocky, desert and dust we are and where we become are present at all times. Continuing this kind of road movie initiation, Mr. Badii drives his Range Rover up a cement plant, guarded only by an Afghan immigrant. This speaks of the visit of a friend seminarian and then Mr. Badii cleric decides to propose to help you in your particular purpose.
Mir Hossein Noori is the seminarian While Louis Malle introduced philosophical elements in his film, Kiarostami clearly now added religious component, reminding us through this character that the Koran strongly condemns suicide, in its most orthodox (taking one's life) but we would be getting into areas cumbersome when it comes to fight the Jihad or Holy War against infidels (suicide bombers to self-destruct the hope of reaching the Garden houris).
In this case, Mr. Badii tries to convince the cleric future arguing that suicide is a mortal sin such as being unhappy, because if you can suffer harm to others: "I believe that God is so merciful suffer not see any of your creatures is so great that I can not believe you want to force us to live. So the man offered this solution ... Mr. Badii not get the help of the seminarian.
The old Mr. Bagheri crossing the threshold of his work ... His last hope is the Mr. Bagheri ( Abdolrahman Bagheri ) working in Tehran in the Department of dissection the National Museum of Natural Sciences , someone who is accustomed to working with dead bodies, but these correspond animals. This naturally wise man tells Mr. Badii than in the past the taste a simple cherry was able to make him abandon his own thoughts of suicide. He talks about the beauty of each evening and the fullness of the full moon. It also promises to do the job, burying the body of Mr. Badii if you finally decide to kill themselves by overdosing on sleeping pills.
The unexpected ending of this film contributes to its more grandiose, a fade to black as we will not know what was really troubled the fate of Mr. Badii ...
In closing, a few lines of Cesare Pavese , which ended its existence on August 26, 1950 with an overdose of sleeping pills!. Correspond to different moments of his work "The task of living ":
- only way to explain my current life suicide. And I know I'm doomed forever to think of suicide for any discomfort or pain. This is what scares me: my first suicide is never consummated, consumaré not ever, but that caresses my sensitivity.
- must have felt the mania for destruction. I do not speak of suicide: people like us in love with life, the unexpected pleasure of "telling" suicide can only recklessly. Besides, suicide appears as one of those mythical heroism of those great statements of human dignity to the fate that statutory interest, but they leave us abandoned to ourselves. The self-destruct is a more desperate and time utility. The self-destruct is working to get inside any plague, any cowardice, and promote these provisions to the cancellation, searching, getting drunk with them, enjoying them. The self-destruct is definitely more confident than any winner of the past, knows that the thread of attachment to the morning, if possible, the wonderful future, a stronger cable-case of the last push, I do not know what faith or integrity . The self-destruct is primarily a comedian and master of himself. He does not waste any opportunity to feel and to prove. Is an optimist. Hopes all of life, and goes to produce refined under the hands of future event sounds sharp and significant. The self-destruct can not bear solitude. But he lives in constant danger, that it surprised a hobby of building management, a moral imperative. Then suffer without mercy, and could even kill.
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