Phantom Limb

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Is one ever in fact innocent or guilty?

Beyond appearances, what are guilt and innocence? Is one ever in fact innocent or guilty? If, in the absolute, there is an answer, it can probably only be negative; to each, then, to create for himself his own truth, however unreasonable it may be. In the final shot, the hero finally conceives himself innocent or guilty. Rightly or wrongly, what matter to him?

Remembering the last lines of Les Voix du Silence, "Humanism does not mean saying: what I have done, etc... " let us salute that scarcely wrinkled hand in the penultimate shot, ineluctably at rest near to pardon, and which does not cause even a tremor in this most secret form of the power and the glory of being man.

posted by Daniel Pereira at 5:23 PM

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