Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux
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1:03:01
He has to place a bomb in a cellar
to blow it up

1:03:06
He does it
1:03:08
He places the bomb, lights the fuse,
then he runs away, of course

1:03:13
But suddenly he begins to think
1:03:17
What about? How it is possible
to put one foot before the other?

1:03:23
You must have thought about that, too
1:03:27
So he stops running. He can't go on,
he can't move forward

1:03:35
The bomb explodes, the cellar falls
on him, he bears it on his shoulders

1:03:41
But after a day, or maybe two,
he is crushed to death

1:03:46
The first time he thought,
it killed him

1:03:49
Why did you tell me that story?
1:03:53
No reason, just to talk
1:03:56
Why must one always talk?
1:03:59
Often one shouldn't talk,
but live in silence

1:04:04
The more talk, the less the words mean
1:04:07
Perhaps, but can one?
1:04:12
I don't know
1:04:14
I've found that we can't live
without talking

1:04:21
I'd like to live without talking
1:04:24
Yes, it would be nice, wouldn't it?
1:04:28
Like loving one another more
1:04:31
But it isn't possible
1:04:35
But why? Words should express
just what one wants to say

1:04:40
Do they betray us?
1:04:43
But we betray them, too
1:04:45
One should be able to express oneself;
it has been done in writing

1:04:50
Think: Someone like Plato...
1:04:54
- he can
1:04:58
Yet he wrote in Greek, 2,500 years ago

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