Marie pour mémoire (1968) - full transcript

Marie for Memory

Who are you?

Hieronymus Bosch, clairvoyant

I represent antics of the formless
and bleeding world.

And who are you?

I belong to the one and only movement

that tries to explain the place of the
human being in the contemporary world.

And who are you?

Jacques Lacan, an orthodox
psychoanalyst

who builds his theory
on the basis of Freud's ideas.

And who are you?



I work.

Cinema as a perfect
mean of communication.

and the way to prove you exist

It has deserved salvation

And who are you?

I am an immoralist,

all ideologies are alien for me.

I don't need any tricks.

I am bored.

Marie, can't you see, I'm bored.
Do you have cards?

This is really beautiful.

I saw you with him.
This is Gabriel.

No, no! You don't know him.

It's impossible. We don't
understand each other.???



She just tries you out.

I beg you, let's not continue.

We'll have to suffer a lot.

I'm 20 years old.
I live with my parents.

I am waiting for my coming of age.

I am 20 years old. I live with my
mother who has been taking care of me

since my father committed suicide
on the day I was born.

I do social and economic research,

Division of Criticism, Department of
Immorality and Comparative Bickering.

I am in my 7th year
at the Department of Philosophy.

I wanted to commit suicide
a couple of times.

You shouldn't hasten your
absence in this world,

it's a ridiculous collective crime
that you add to your own crimes.

Nevertheless it all
encourages it.

All the excuses
are not valid anymore.

And isn't the despair itself
feigned?

The only menace is
the boredom.

In this case I prefer
to be killed immediately.

Marie, please, stay,
I implore you.

Marie, please, stay,
I implore you.

Marie, please, stay,
I implore you.

I have to break away from this.

I am sure that rational reasoning
isn't inherent to women.

Why this at all?
To satisfy my needs?

This will not help.

Wait, I have an idea.

Why are you silent?

What's wrong with you?

Are you sad?

Say something!

Are you bored?

I am bored.

Talk!

This comedy has lasted long enough.

I am confused. But
my mind is clear again.

This heat is unbearable.

Cold and film.

A woman is a woman
and I can't change anything.

I can't calm you down
in any other way.

From now on I'll
treat your words as accusations.

Why should I make love to you?

If these accusations turn out to be true
in the nexy 7 years,

I will be able to free myself
quickly.

You are the only one
who knows about my illness.

So it is only you who can
hurt me with your reproaches.

It is necessary that the dialog that
is bringing us closer, doesn't stop.

Starting tomorrow we'll part
to take a dive into work.

So how can we preserve
the integrity of the dialog?

How will you be able to talk to me,
if you are not next to me?

It is necessary for every word,

every movement
to engender excitement in me,

as if it were you who is
talking or moving,

so that the signs of your presence
were everywhere.

It is necessary to find the
explanation of my mental illness.

You can go, I'm bored with you.

Talk.

Talk.

I saw them together often.

This nice girl

is confused.

Marie.

Marie could try
to save herself.

Yes, I am sure, but

Communicate, pronounce words.
I don't think so.

Maybe.

These are just fantasies.
Yes, just fantasies.

Yes, it's a question of tact.

When a girl is obsessed with you

you have to deal with it
with tact.

And so you begin
to believe in mysticism,

to believe that it is possible to gain,

to believe that it is possible
to attain,

to believe that it happens
due to the external forces.

I think this will lead

to almost complete ignorance.

And then the search for the
other person starts.

This is the goal of life.

But is not like that.

You spin and spin
in all directions.

One has to reconcile with it

One has to come to terms with
this illusion,

whose essence is that

one has to fall in love all the time,

to be able to respond to
the one who turns to you.

We have to break up.

I've stopped being objective,

you command my unconsciousness.

There is nothing I can hide from you

I am the only one to be fooled, because
I believed in the most flattering image

of myself I could have conjured up.

You depend on me

and every single one of your phrases
copies mine.

I'd like our consciousnesses
to be symmetrical.

Wake up! It's time!

I'm afraid.

I know. I hate it.

I go to cover and feed you.
All my other activities

are turned away
from their initial goal

At least when I look for the food
and cover for you

I treat the others from the point of
view of the survival of the fittest.

How can I support those who are
ready to succumb to my despotic will?

Wear this, it's cold outside.

- Good luck!
- Bye, Mom!

"Maidens of Golgotha"

This is amazing! Amazing!

In short, we are thinking together
that this is amazing.

And so

we begin to understand each
other a little bit.

We can't understand everything
at once,

but we'll understand
the necessary things.

That is, just a part of it.
A small part.

Nevertheless I realize that

it is necessary to come to it
as close as possible.

So one comes closer and closer.

But once we get there

we have not been able to advance

So we tell ourselves: maybe we have to step back

and as a result,
one way or another

we make 1 step forward
and 2 steps back

we won't achieve anything
in this manner

and yet

we have to understand it.
Maybe I'm just sleeping.

in the end, it's possible
that I'm just sleeping

It is like

like that philosopher,
Chinese philosopher

who dreams that he is a butterfly

and after he wakes up,
he asks himself

if he's not perhaps a butterfly that
dreams to be a Chinese philosopher.

I just wanted to say,

it is important to start
to learn how to understand now,

but when I say 'now'

the moment I say 'now'

is not a present moment anymore,
it is a past one.

What we need is ahead of us,

and I will reach it.

The only thing I have to say
is that we haven't reached it yet.

And sometimes really good ideas
come into my head.

I think about it

and one can say that etymologically I
understand, but this is too quick.

It is right in front of you.

All of it passes by.

I think we've arrived.

This makes

5 francs,
including heating.

Here you go, 5 francs.

Tell me.

No, no.

I've charged one stupid guy.

Yes, yes, that's why I laughed.

No, no, I'm all good, thanks.

I am perfectly fine.

It's picking my eyes!

Hello! I'd like to tell you
a good news over the phone

About the crimes
happening in France

especially in Versailles
and Saint-Denis.

I was shocked by one thing:

before the guilty one is found,

the people's anger becomes stronger,

and from every side
to begin with the press and radio

there aren't expressions strong enough
to describe the indignation

Then the search came to an end,
thanks to the police.

and the criminals are found.

Starting from this precise moment
the tone changes...

Explanations that diminish
the guilt of the prosecuted appear.

For instance, that he was sick or was
a victim of difficult family situation,

society's influence,
that he rebelled.

When he was young he was troubled

Of course, one has to be merciful,

but I ask myself, where
will it lead us

this kind of deculpabilision
of society and individual?

This does not help to protect
security of the regular citizens.

And for the believers the rising number
of the crimes committed

becomes a sign

that the world has entered

the final and decisive
stage of its history

and we are awaiting
Christ,

because we don't expect
from the state officials

police, economists,
moralists or scientists

to facilitate the establishment of
peace, love and absolute equality

of all the people. We expect it from
Jesus Christ, the Son of God,

who will be shortly among us
again.

This was a good news
over the phone.

Do you have the New Testament?

Hello, is this SOS-friendship?

Please, send someone over to me
as soon as possible.

You've called us.
What is bothering you?

You don't want to talk?

I am know how you feel, you want to
smash your head against the wall.

You have to say at least something
to start talking.

You don't want to talk.
I'm worried about you.

Don't move. I took
measures to detox.

I won't be doing anything.
I don't want you helping me.

Are you still here?

I'd like to stay.

I am busy.

- And?
- What 'and'?

Talk.

He is successful with his intrigues.

What are we to do then?

Well, at least tell me
about yourself.

You're jealous.

Yes, I'm jealous.

Well, tell me about him at least.

Jesus is possessed.

When he left me,
I lost everything.

Malicious, depressed.

- It was right, what you did.
- I am not sure now.

I didn't want to take pills.

I don't understand you.

You don't understand me anymore.

Andrien doesn't understand
me anymore either.

No one listens to me.

No one understands me.

Yes.

No, don't tell the things
I haven't said.

Well, no.

Wait a second.

You've forgotten to shave yourself.

It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter.

Just a second! No, no, no,
I'll be with you in a second.

We've read your report.
It is good, very good.

We like your violence a lot.

Your opinions are extreme.

It is possible to say that

you express extreme opinions
on the extreme issues

and this is extremely interesting for
us. Do you follow?

Hello! Hello! Please, don't hang up!

Don't hang up!
I'll be right back!

Yes, exactly!

But be careful, very careful! You have
to be a little bit cruel,

but only theoretically,

not to darken your research.

Do you understand?

This is a socio-economic
organization, not a...

Well, you understand what I mean.

Hello! Yes, yes, yes!

Very calm.

A lot calmer than usually

I don't know, I don't know.

Yes, yes, I'll tell you
as soon as I find out.

Please, don't hang up,
I'll be with you in a second.

And one more thing:
I have an impression

that you are not aware
that you are full of contradictions,

for instance, between
the essence and the form,

the means and the structure,
the development of the idea.

Do you understand?

But dialectics will forgive
you this mistake of the young age.

Hello!

Still nothing.

Yes, he is standing
with his arms crossed.

Yes, I'll keep this in mind.

I'll be with you in a moment.

You are basing this on the concrete
data, which is very good,

but don't be stuck in the statistics.

Numbers. Numbers can express almost
everything one would wish to express.

But please don't forget
about the human factor.

Human...

I'll dare a quote:
"Absorb all the human"

Spencer, the philosopher, has said this,
you've probably heard about him.

Human

Because, well, you understand

not only the observer
or the observed object are important,

but also the distance between
the observer and the observed object.

The right distances are
the basis of the good relations

and good report.
You understand me for sure.

In short, you should think in a more
abstract way despite the concrete data,

and make concrete conclusions
based on the blurry data.

Hello. I'll call you back in a moment.

Yes. I'll call you back.

I am giving you a new case.

Here it is.

Yes, yes, he's gone.

It's me who decides here.

The others speak on my behalf.

I am worried about my reputation.

It is difficult to go away
and to return.

And now I will... Careful!

You annoy me.

I have never talked
about the family.

Why don't you want
us to leave?

You don't even want to
look at me.

Yes, I know. I want
everything to be clean.

I don't have time.

This girl brings me a lot
of troubles.

I have a lot of things to do
and I don't have time.

It's my fault, I know.

this girl, she's very complicated.

Do I really love my daughter?

Do I really love my daughter?

Sebastian. I know this.

It is very difficult to bring up
this girl.

I have a lot of things to do.
This is too much.

Get out! Get out!

The life isn't a spectacle.

Damn!

-You won't even help me now?

Tell if I'm wrong

That which inspires me
is my vision

which preceeds reason.

I've came to Earth again

to tell you:

from now on, already,
time and space no longer please me

My soul is an open sky

The human being has created the God
to his own likeness

man's repressive conduct
worsens his state of regression

To break free,
regain our memory!

Depend extensively
on all these metaphors!

It brings nothing apart from
the excessive anxiety.

And the last thing:
the state full of affectation,

feeling responsible for the order
of my life,

this state is called madness.

Nevertheless, at any moment the research
may stop serving the purpose

to turn into a deception
in it's own turn.

In front of this phenomenon
of revelation

Jesus was sometimes telling
prophetic things.

And his atheism hangs on by a hair,

but this hair is very strong.

Because only the rapture
of the revelation

may allow a human being

to loose control of oneself.

The risk of culture.

The communication turns into
ideology

and ideology

is a feeling of security
that makes us blind.

It is also illogical to think
that someone, who knows

really feels a genuine need
to share this knowledge.

It is the same as
talking to an animal,

who can talk only
in a metaphorical sense.

But let's go back to our fantasy.

For those who decided
to put off things

that can be done today for tomorrow

this is the end of the news.

Why are you so beautiful today?

Is this day an important one for you?

Look, what Jesus gave me as a present.

I have something for you.

Drink more.

More.

That's enough.

Aren't you afraid?

You'll be in a lot of pain soon.

The pain will come in waves,

each time stronger and stronger.

You have to surrender to them,

help them, work
together with them.

This work will be very hard,
the one that starts.

It'll be against you and
with you.

You'll have a baby,

but it'll cease to be
a part of you.

It'll leave you.

It'll distance itself from you

and it won't be with you anymore.

I won't be by you.

I'll sort the guy who
invented a tie!

Careful, careful.

Careful.

Careful.

Careful.

And now this eternal comedy
will start again, I'm sick of it.

Such a presentation,
that's not alright!

Well, there's no alright alright...

It's part of the job

You know me.

You look ridiculous.

Don't pour gasoline on the fire

because I've had enough

I ask ya not to smoke

So what?

No, you always have it
your way

I don't care. I'll be on dole
pretty soon.

You'll see how much money
I'll get for the boy.

I'm not joking.

I don't care.

Damn, this is shit.

You can't even drive.

Learn how to drive.

Get out! Shut up!
Get out!

He's very handsome.

I'll call him...

I'll call him...

I'll call him Jesus.

Hurry up!

I feel sick.

I feel sick. Hurry up!

I don't know, I don't know.

Help! I feel sick!

Help!

Help! I feel sick!

Now there are two of you.

You are filled, closed.

You have to open up.

I feel sick.

My baby,

My baby!

My baby, my baby!..

Leave me alone!
My baby!

No, leave me alone!

There.

My baby

Be quiet.

I can't watch,
how people suffer.

I want my baby.

Tell me please,
how did your pregnancy start?

I want my baby.

When did you understand
that you were pregnant?

What about your belly?
Was it big?

We don't know,
we don't know.

I want my baby

Probably, you were thinking,
you believed...

I want my baby.

Sure.

Then in subway

you've been offered a seat because...

No, the last time I...

But it all turned out ok.

I tell this every year.

Quiet, like this.

Good.

She reminds me of her

We'll give you a good dressing down.

I want a baby because

Because I love my children

and because if you love someone,
you want to have his child

But I have always wanted
to have a child anyway.

But it was always related
to many problems.

It is very difficult to have a baby
and someone who would love you.

I think I was the same,
but I don't remember exactly.

But it had happened,
that's why I understand you.

Solitude is

an eternal state.

It relates to everyone to a bigger
or lesser extent.

No one feels solitary.

I don't know.

I don't understand anything
And I don't see any

I don't know what to do
with myself.

No.

No, I fell in love not a long
time ago.

I don't remember how it all started.

It starts when you meet someone.

And you either fall in love
or you don't fall in love.

Something either happens
or doesn't happen.

It is possible to meet the same person

but under different circumstances
and nothing will happen.

I don't know.

It all has started like this in my case.

But I have no idea
how it will end.

I can't understand
what have I done wrong.

It is always one and the same.

No, I don't think so.

I don't think so.

To have a life, to have a baby...

Am I afraid to lose someone I love

I believe, in any case

it is very probable that one day
I will loose him.

Yes, it is like that.

I don't know.

I've forgotten everything,
I don't know anything anymore.

Please, sit down.

I have to tell you,
I saw Marie.

She told us about her fears
that are connected with you.

Sure, sure.

Please, do not treat everything
so tragically.

It is not so important.

Of course, reality has
ceased to exist for you.

But believe me,
there's a teaching

it is based on the experience.
Besides,

you can tell yourself that this
has happened to you and no one else.

Every cloud has a silver lining,

as they say.

Please, make a report about this.

It is for your own good.

Do that!

We believe in you.

I'll go and shave myself.

Some girl has come to see you.

Talk to me, Marie.

Talk to me.

Your name is Blondine?

I've heard about you.

Marie, please, recall!

Talk to me!

Marie!

Talk to me!

Marie, please, recall!

Marie, talk to me!

Doctor! Doctor!

Marie, talk to me,
please!

Surname?

Isubis.

Name?

Gabriel.

Occupation?

Actor.

Political views?

I am a moralist, I hope
for the better.

Do you pay taxes?

Perfect. The young man
refuses to pay property tax.

Have you been drafted?

Perfect. The young man
Refuses to answer.

You were wandering in the streets
after consuming hallucinogen.

Perfect. The young man
Is using his family connections.

You ask me to free you from this,
but I see that you are suicidal.

There is a form.
Let's be through with this.

Gabriel Vit.

Let's run.

My tailor is rich.

My tailor is not rich.

Our doctor is good.

Our doctor is not good.

Your cigarette is finished.

Your cigarette is not finished.

My parents are poor.

My parents are not poor.

Our books are interesting.

Our books are not interesting.

Your flowers are beautiful.

Your flowers are not beautiful.

- Do you want it?
- No

What will happen when
your mum is no longer around?

There's alot of movies...

How will the film be?
Will it end?

No, I didn't have
enough courage.

[words in Russian] Father, madame,

drama, doctor, azotу ???, address,

acrobat, pineapple, anonym,

samovar, America, passport,

Alexander, baby, bar, million,

Stalin, Stalingrad,

cretin, alligator, Romanov,
Azov,

moon, aquarium,
allegro,

gendarme, jargon,

garage, phrase,
fakir,

fortune, coffee, Paris,

actor, amphitheater,
Cherkess,

receipt, camion,

Cheka, absolute,
charlatan,

chassis, tea,

chauffeur, general,
telephone,

medicine, cirkus,
rose,

brigade, consul,
cocoa,

museum, post office,

I, alley,
France.

The End.