Favorite
Quote (French
Me for the New Year)
From :
Happenstance by Laurent Firode.
“You only have to piss in the ocean to make the level rise.” In French it’s: “Il suffît
pisser dans la mer pour faire monter le niveau de tous les océans.”
This is from the film Audrey Tatou made
before Amèlie, and many people
like the latter better, but not me. The film is a kind of illustration of the
butterfly effect example used to try to explain chaos theory to those untutored
in advanced physics. But what it winds up being, in the words of a fine review by James
Berardinelli is, "the cinematic equivalent of a
Rube Goldberg machine - a twisting, winding string of coincidences piled one
upon another, all leading to a very simple event - a woman meeting a man."
The lines above are spoken by a narrator of sorts who only appears briefly in
the film, and serves as the unsentimental presentation of a simple truth, a
rendition which incidentally, makes it a warning about ecology as well a reminder
of how to live your life.
Other quotes:
Views on Literature in the New Millenium.
College Professors as the Lamp that Gives Light to our
Culture.
Fascinating Fasteners.
A Propos the September 11th Tragedies
See also:
Less kind but amusing review of Happenstance by Slant’s Ed Gonzalez: he could be French himself.