Cinema Sex Politics: Bertolucci Makes 'The Dreamers' Page #3

 
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2003
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I'd like to know why.

I was just-- I was fidgeting

with Isabelle's lighter...

and... I wasn't

really realizing it...

then I noticed,

and I thought it was rude...

so I put it down on the table.

But I put it diagonally across

one of these squares.

Do you see?

Look.

That's when I noticed

that the lighter's length...

is exactly the same length

as the diagonal itself.

So I put it lengthwise,

along the outside edge.

- Look. It fits there too.

- Yeah.

But it fits there.

And it fits like this

and like this...

and this way too.

And I bet you if

I just split it in half...

you know, it's

got to fit somewhere.

I mean, it really

fits anywhere. Look.

See?

I was noticing that the more

you look at everything--

this table, the objects on it,

the refrigerator, this room...

your nose, the world

Suddenly...

you realize that there's some

sort of cosmic harmony...

of shapes and sizes.

I was just wondering why.

I don't know why that is.

I know that it is.

You have an interesting

friend here.

More interesting, I suspect,

than you know.

I mean, when we look around us,

what is it we see?

Complete chaos.

Yet viewed from above...

viewed, as it were,

by God...

everything suddenly

fits together.

My children believe that

their demonstrations and sit-ins...

and happenings...

what, they believe that these possess

the capacity...

not only to provoke society,

but also to transform it.

What is it you're saying?

If Langlois is dismissed,

we shouldn't do anything?

If immigrants are deported,

if students are beaten up,

we shouldn't do anything?

What I'm saying is that

a little lucidity would not go amiss.

So, uh,

everyone's wrong but you?

In France, in Italy,

Germany, America?

Listen to me, Theo.

Before you can change the world...

you must realize

you yourself are part of it.

You cannot stand outside

looking in.

You're the one

who stands outside.

You're the one who refused to sign

a petition against the Vietnam War.

Poets don't sign petitions.

They sign poems.

A petition is a poem.

Yes! And a poem is a petition.

Thank you, but I'm not gaga yet.

I don't need you to remind me

of my own work!

- Hmm?

- That's right.

A petition is a poem,

a poem is a petition.

- Yes.

- Those are the most famous lines you ever wrote.

And now look at you.

I hope I'll never be like him.

Theo.

We should say good night, darling.

We got a long day

ahead of us tomorrow.

George.

Yes, sorry. You were saying?

We should go to bed.

You had something

to tell the children, didn't you?

Yes, of course.

I'm sorry.

The cheques

are on the mantelpiece.

Don't cash them

until you need them, all right?

Good night, everybody.

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