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Changeling (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
Christine Collins: He’s not my son!
Capt. J.J. Jones: Why are you doing this, Mrs. Collins? Why are you doing this? You seem perfectly capable of taking care of the boy. Your job pays you enough to attend to his personal needs, so I don’t understand why you’re running away from your responsibilities as a mother.
Christine Collins: I am not running away from anything! Least of all my responsibilities! I am even taking care of that boy right now, because I am all he has! What worries me is that you have stopped looking for my son!
Capt. J.J. Jones: Why should we be looking for someone we’ve already found?
Christine Collins: Because you have not found him.
Cancer is not a death sentence. There is life beyond it.
Beyond Angelina there is a real world. Yes, indeed. I ll fully explain it tomorrow.
Unreal scientific life
Mr. Deeds goes to town (Frank Capra, 1936)
Lonfellow Deeds: People around here are funny. They work so hard at living they forget how to live.
Sin embargo, no existe ninguna razón por la que un hombre, y un hombre extremadamente inteligente por cierto, debiera conformarse a los criterios de los cuadros académicos de hoy día, y por la que no debiera intentar seguir su propio camino para promover sus intereses. Ciertamente, no deja de ser un extraño principio moral aquel que exige a un pensador ser un portavoz que sólo ‘exprese’ lo que crea ser ‘verdad’ y que nunca mencione lo que crea que no lo es. (¿Es esto lo que exige la búsqueda contemporánea de la autenticidad?). Un punto de vista tan puritano como el que acabamos de mencionar constituye una base demasiado ingenua para comprender a un hombre de finales del Renacimiento y principios del Barroco. Además, el charlatán Galileo tiene un carácter mucho más interesante que el estrecho ‘investigador de la verdad’ al que, normalmente, se nos incita a reverenciar. Por último, y como hemos visto, sólo por medio de juegos de manos podía conseguirse progreso en esta época.
Paul K. Feyerabend, Against Method, 1975.
Beyond the Rainbow: Life over troubled waters
In the good old summertime (Robert Z. Leonard, 1949)
Veronica Fisher: Psychologically, I’m very confused, but personally I feel just wonderful.
I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
I’m a woman who wants to reach out and take 40 million people in her arms.
As for my feelings toward “Over the Rainbow”, it’s become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all my dreams and wishes that I’m sure that’s why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.
Judy Garland (June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969)
LIVING WITH CANCER
Akira Kurosawa
These antithetical perspectives split me in two. The disjunction between lived experience, on the one hand, and scientific evidence, on the other, cleaves my spirit. It distresses me that my oncologist resides with truth, I with truthiness.
Susan Gubar
Yo quiero vivir!
IKIRU (Akira Kurosawa, 1952) – VIVIR
When faced with a death sentence,
how will you choose
to live the rest of your days?
And what if you do not possess
even a single
beautiful memory of love?
The Lost Reason in Science
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
Peggy Dodd: And this is where we are at. At the lowest level. To have to explain ourselves, for what? For what we do, we have to grovel? The only way to defend ourselves is to attack. If we don’t do that we will lose every battle that we are engaged in. We will *never* dominate our environment the way we should unless we attack! And the city, city’s just noise. I know the city. I know its rotten secrets, its filthy lies and secrets. They… invited us here and welcomed us. Only to throw us down. And kick us out. It’s a grim joke.
Most scientists simply bow to the authority of their specialist colleagues and one will see that common scientific wisdom is not very common and it certainly is not very wise. Lakatos is aware of the difficulty.
On the Critique of Scientific Reason (1976) P. K. Feyerabend.
Essays in Memory of Imre Lakatos.
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
Who would expect that one can climb Mount Everest using the “rational” steps of classical ballet?
On the Critique of Scientific Reason (1976) P. K. Feyerabend.
Essays in Memory of Imre Lakatos.
My voyage to Italy
Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)
[first lines]
Alexander ‘Alex’ Joyce: Where are we?
Katherine Joyce: Oh, I don’t know exactly.
Que el amor de Dios transforme al hombre, lo convierta o lo endurezca, no es su esencia, sino su efecto. Sería un amante extraño aquel que intentara medir el amor de su esposa por los efectos benevolentes o inquietantes que tal amor produce. Esto que Dios ha hecho por el hombre es “comprensible” precisamente en la medida que no resulta comprensible y justificable desde lo fragmentario humano y mundano; medido desde aquí tiene que aparecer precisamente como “locura” y “necedad”.
Hans Ur Von Balthasar, Only Love is Credible.
Read more (English posts): STROMBOLI
Di Roma (Febbraio 2013)
