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  1. Jun 2021
  2. Sep 2020
    1. Because it wasn’t the real Louise Brooks that Casares was in love with, but the idea of “Louise Brooks”—the image of her produced by flickering light on a movie screen.

      C'est la même chose avec l'audience de films.....on devient obsédé avec ces gens, l'idée et le personnage de ces gens. En réalité, on ne sait aucune chose de ces acteurs en vrai DU TOUT. C'est une fantaisie totalement

    1. This bothers him, but he is confident it will not matter in the eternity they will spend together. At least he is sure she is n

      Also the characters in general have no consent or volition; they are merely puppets playing out someone else's fantasy, be it Morel or the fugitive. this is similar to the will of a director or film writer

    2. He learns how to operate the machine and inserts himself into the recording so it looks like he and Faustine are in love, even though she might have slept with Alec and Haynes.

      Use it to manipulate, perfect one's desires/reality; despite how these events transpire in real life; ex-woman you're into may never actually get with you

    3. Morel tells the tourists he has been recording their actions of the past week with a machine of his invention, which is capable of reproducing reality. He claims the recording will capture their souls, and through looping they will relive that week forever and he will spend eternity with the woman he loves

      cinema as a way of reproducing reality; making fleeting moments capable of reliving, re-experiencing, analyzing, for our own selfish desires; whether we're involved in them or not

    4. he fugitive decides to approach her, but she does not react to him. He assumes she is ignoring him; however, his encounters with the other tourists have the same result.

      he is the audience? Not in the same dimension perhaps?