There is a line in this movie that makes absolutely no sence what so ever. It was completely ridiculous it made me and m
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Aulic Exclusiva — 19 years ago(February 25, 2007 08:17 AM)
Paul Verlaine, who was himself a very great poet, is traditionally seen as a weak, bourgeois namby-pamby in this scene. But he risked and lost everything, everything, for the love of his friend. Perhaps people now-a-days do not realise what it was for a married man and a father to be incarcerated for sodomy and attempted murder of his male lover in the Nineteenth century. Verlaine was like a dead man, when he came out of prison.
But he survived, proving the truth of Rimbaud's dictum. That Verlaine, his lust intact, could have survived his own destruction, like an undrownable cockroach, disgusted Rimbaud. Yet that's what men do. It's their filthy immortality.
Cosmic irony, Verlaine survived to make his lover's reputation, out of his precious cache of Rimbaud manuscripts.
But let no one call Verlaine a coward. This was the man who set his wife on fire, as a gift to his lover.
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johnnyx_xcat — 18 years ago(December 29, 2007 11:02 PM)
the line is a bit goofy, but it makes perfect sense. some things are unbearable: a bullet to the head, a Mack truck, cancer, etc. however, it's bizarre that we are able to inflict death/pain to others without dying. Aside from our physical limitations, there are no limits to our mental experiences. he seemed to lack a conscience like many sociopaths. without a conscience how does one know there is a god. he was searching for significance through pain and guilt. he was searching for Pandoras box by indulging. after indulging he felt empty. there was no divine hand limiting what a man could mentally experience. Its as though God lets us experience any thought, perform any act, and we never cross a line of any consequence, at least not in this life. Its dependent on your religious beliefs if judgment comes after life and if death is a reflection of sin in the world. Its as though Rimbaud wanted to know that there was some form of mental anguish that could lead to a person's demise. the existence of un-crossable lines would have gave him a sense of purpose. he appears to be an atheist that is proactively searching for God's judgment. most passively seek God's existence through signs of his mercy. since he can find no consequence to anything he does, he concludes god doesn't exist or like us feels numb to most everything. Rimbaud didn't believe in hell or heaven. he was searching for his judgment and pleasure on earth. he found neither. if nothing could mentally kill him he figured his mental state was incapable of life. He felt that was unbearable, and suicide was redundant. You cant kill what is already dead. He looked at the mind as inanimate clockwork. Committing suicide would do as much good as trying to kill a watch. that's a hard pill to swallow for someone so cerebral.
these thoughts have been presented more eloquently, but i thought the search for god's existence was left out. -
Ikari9 — 17 years ago(May 20, 2008 11:59 PM)
Makes perfect sense, really. There are various ways to interpret that, but it comes down to the same idea that no matter how much pain you are in, you continue to bear it. You continue to live on, hence why he stabs his hand when he says it. It demonstrated that he was suffering great emotional pain, and then even greater physical pain. Two extremes occurring at once, but he was still enduring them to their fullest extent. The fact that your body does not block or shut these pains out is the only unbearable aspect to life, but it is unbearable in the sense that it is unfortunate.
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chibifiedeyes — 17 years ago(December 16, 2008 04:34 AM)
I haven't seen this film [yet..] but I would probably interpret that line as having gotten to such a point in your life that nothing seems terrible or disgusting because everything in your life has been that way and knowing this is an unbearable thought.
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danaabney90 — 16 years ago(June 23, 2009 08:10 AM)
I think it means that nothing in life has the ability to affect you so much that it is unbearable. It is unbearable that nothing is that powerful.
It is a paradox, a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. -
michey-eva — 16 years ago(March 20, 2010 03:10 PM)
haha it's a contradiction, therefore, you are right, it doesn't make sense.
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