Sous le vent

1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 2 00:01:39,058 --> 00:01:40,738 Here's how it started. 3 00:01:41,097 --> 00:01:42,963 When I got back from Vietnam, 4 00:01:43,556 --> 00:01:45,236 I was a good soldier. 5 00:01:45,593 --> 00:01:47,827 I'd never said a word. 6 00:02:22,838 --> 00:02:25,292 Travel is useful, it exercises the imagination 7 00:02:25,476 --> 00:02:28,376 All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. 8 00:02:28,403 --> 00:02:31,171 Our journey is entirely imaginary. 9 00:02:31,352 --> 00:02:32,552 That is its strength. 10 00:02:33,374 --> 00:02:35,174 It goes from life to death. 11 00:02:35,225 --> 00:02:36,371 People, animals, 12 00:02:36,749 --> 00:02:39,229 cities, things, all are imagined. 13 00:02:39,858 --> 00:02:42,758 It's a novel, just a fictitious narrative. 14 00:02:42,918 --> 00:02:45,518 Littré says so, and he's never wrong. 15 00:02:45,770 --> 00:02:48,490 And besides, in the first place, anyone can do as much. 16 00:02:48,616 --> 00:02:50,550 You just have to close your eyes. 17 00:02:50,582 --> 00:02:52,358 It's on the other side of life. 18 00:03:05,935 --> 00:03:08,756 There's a moment between two brands of humanity 19 00:03:08,807 --> 00:03:11,398 when you find yourself thrashing around in a vacuum. 20 00:03:11,481 --> 00:03:16,013 That's what exile, a foreign country is, inexorable perception of existence 21 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:19,022 as it really is, during those long lucid hours, 22 00:03:19,077 --> 00:03:21,657 exceptional in the flux of human time, 23 00:03:21,798 --> 00:03:24,982 when the ways of the old country abandon you, 24 00:03:25,038 --> 00:03:29,026 but the new ways haven't sufficiently stupefied you as yet. 25 00:03:54,725 --> 00:03:58,894 The loneliness in Vietnam had been pretty rough, 26 00:03:58,945 --> 00:04:01,765 but my isolation in this American anthill 27 00:04:01,816 --> 00:04:04,537 was even more crushing. 28 00:04:27,567 --> 00:04:30,058 From that moment on we saw, rising to the surface, 29 00:04:30,098 --> 00:04:32,739 the terrifying nature of white men, exasperated, 30 00:04:32,739 --> 00:04:36,655 freed from constraint, absolutely unbuttoned, their true nature, 31 00:04:36,706 --> 00:04:38,160 same as in the war. 32 00:04:38,583 --> 00:04:41,453 That tropical steam bath called forth 33 00:04:41,541 --> 00:04:44,344 instincts as August breeds toads and snakes 34 00:04:44,394 --> 00:04:46,498 on the fissured walls of prisons. 35 00:04:47,211 --> 00:04:50,309 In the European cold, under gray, puritanical northern skies, 36 00:05:06,951 --> 00:05:09,353 we seldom get to see our brothers' festering cruelty 37 00:05:09,411 --> 00:05:11,593 except in times of carnage, 38 00:05:12,047 --> 00:05:14,270 but when roused by the foul fevers of the tropics, 39 00:05:14,321 --> 00:05:17,191 their rottenness rises to the surface. 40 00:05:18,557 --> 00:05:22,662 That's when the frantic unbuttoning sets in, when filth triumphs. 41 00:05:25,913 --> 00:05:27,392 It's a biological confession 42 00:05:27,896 --> 00:05:30,871 Once work and cold weather cease to constrain us, 43 00:05:30,921 --> 00:05:34,979 once they relax their grip, the white man shows you 44 00:05:35,251 --> 00:05:37,196 the same spectacle as a beautiful beach [...] 45 00:05:47,048 --> 00:05:49,056 when the tide goes out: 46 00:05:49,446 --> 00:05:52,228 the truth, fetid pools, 47 00:05:52,300 --> 00:05:54,988 crabs, carrion, and turds. 48 00:05:57,673 --> 00:06:00,479 As long as we're young, we manage to find excuses 49 00:06:00,530 --> 00:06:02,836 for the stoniest indifference, the most blatant caddishness, 50 00:06:02,887 --> 00:06:06,056 we put them down to emotional eccentricity 51 00:06:06,572 --> 00:06:09,742 or some sort of romantic inexperience. 52 00:06:10,979 --> 00:06:15,994 But later on, when life shows us how much cunning 53 00:06:16,294 --> 00:06:20,063 cruelty, and malice are required just to keep the body 54 00:06:20,124 --> 00:06:23,386 at ninety-eight point six, we catch on, 55 00:06:23,475 --> 00:06:26,504 we know the score, we begin to understand how much 56 00:06:26,564 --> 00:06:28,851 swinishness it takes to make up a past 57 00:06:29,533 --> 00:06:33,019 Just take a close look at yourself 58 00:06:33,077 --> 00:06:36,110 and the degree of rottenness you've come to. 59 00:06:44,154 --> 00:06:46,449 There's no mystery about it, no more room for fairy tales; 60 00:06:46,500 --> 00:06:48,031 if you've lived this long, it's because 61 00:06:48,081 --> 00:06:49,745 you've squashed any poetry you had in you. 62 00:06:49,850 --> 00:06:51,709 Life's become a lot of pork and beans. 63 00:07:08,757 --> 00:07:10,998 The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget 64 00:07:11,054 --> 00:07:13,202 especially the things that have done you in, 65 00:07:13,253 --> 00:07:15,044 and to die without realizing 66 00:07:15,102 --> 00:07:17,392 how far people can go in the way of crumminess. 67 00:07:18,470 --> 00:07:22,242 When the grave lies open before us, let's not try to be witty, 68 00:07:22,293 --> 00:07:25,459 but on the other hand, let's not forget, but make it our business 69 00:07:25,522 --> 00:07:27,852 to record the worst of the human viciousness 70 00:07:27,902 --> 00:07:29,958 we've seen without changing one word. 71 00:07:30,257 --> 00:07:33,022 When that's done, we can curl up our toes and sink into the pit. 72 00:07:33,046 --> 00:07:35,710 That's work enough for a lifetime. 73 00:10:56,029 --> 00:10:58,712 Far in the distance the tugboat whistled; 74 00:10:58,752 --> 00:11:01,552 its call passed the bridge, one more arch, 75 00:11:01,606 --> 00:11:07,134 then another, the lock, another bridge, farther and farther... 76 00:11:07,419 --> 00:11:10,258 It was summoning all the barges on the river, 77 00:11:10,385 --> 00:11:14,509 every last one, and the whole city and the sky and the countryside, 78 00:11:14,591 --> 00:11:17,400 and ourselves, to carry us all away, 79 00:11:17,459 --> 00:11:21,432 the Seine too, and that would be the end of us. 79 00:11:22,305 --> 00:12:22,454 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm