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10 April 2010

O PENSAMENTO FILOSÓFICO PORTUGUÊS (XLVII)

Pedro Arroja




Outras reflexões em torno de uma teoria sexual do catolicismo:

"Eu deixo ao leitor, se é suficientemente maduro para já ter vivido alguns anos com uma mulher, a faculdade de fazer um teste por si próprio. Decida dedicar um dia da sua vida à especulação metafísica, filosófica ou teológica, e anuncie a sua intenção à sua mulher. Depois, feche-se num quarto sozinho, eventualmente rodeado de livros, para cumprir a sua promessa. Vai ver quantas vezes ela o vai interromper durante o dia a propósito dos mais variados assuntos. (...) Um homem ligado a uma mulher está sempre a ser puxado para o lado prático da vida, e a voltar costas ao seu lado metafísco. Um homem ligado a uma mulher está sempre voltado para ela, e a atender as solicitações dela, e fica de costas voltadas para Deus. Um homem que se queira dedicar inteiramente a Deus, não pode, por isso, ter mulher. Tem de ser celibatário. Mais do que isso, não pode sequer experimentar ter mulher porque, se experimenta, não vai querer outra coisa e fica agarrado para sempre. Tem de ser casto. É esse o sentido do pecado original. Adão caiu nos braços de uma mulher. Voltou as costas a Deus".








(2010)

10 May 2008

A PROPÓSITO DE GODARD E TRUFFAUT



Greatest ending ever! Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (À bout de Souffle). Godard's first feature-length film is one of the inaugural and best-known films of the French New Wave. He wrote it with fellow New Wave director, François Truffaut, and released it the year after Truffaut's The 400 Blows and Alain Resnais's Hiroshima, Mon Amour. Together the three films brought international acclaim to the New Wave.

Michel's death scene is one of the most iconic scenes in the film, but the film's final lines of dialogue are the source of some confusion for English-speaking audiences. In some translations, it is unclear whether Michel is condemning Patricia, or alternatively condemning the world in general.

As Patricia and Detective Vital catch up with the dying Michel, there is the following exchange, according to the transcript published in Dudley Andrew's book on the film:

MICHEL: C'est vraiment dégueulasse.
PATRICIA: Qu'est ce qu'il a dit?
VITAL: Il a dit que vous êtes "une dégueulasse".
PATRICIA: Qu'est ce que c'est "dégueulasse"?

In his book, Andrew translates the dialogue thus:

MICHEL: That's really disgusting.
PATRICIA: What did he say?
VITAL: He said, "You are really a bitch."
PATRICIA: What is "dégueulasse" [bitch]?



Andrew's translation obscures the point of the original French, which is that policeman Vital misquotes Michel. This could either be bad intention or due to a mishearing on part of Vital. A mishearing could stem in part from the similarity between Michel's first word, "C'est" ("It is/That is") and the word "T'es" ("You are"), which are hard to distinguish audibly. In this case, it could also stem from the ambiguity of the word "dégueulasse", which can either be an adjective ("disgusting"), or a noun ("disgusting thing", rendered as "bitch" by Andrew); however, even "vous êtes vraiment dégueulasse" ("you are really disgusting") would have had the same meaning, without any change of adjective and noun. By hearing "T'es", Vital may understand Michel's line as a condemnation of Patricia, but if, in fact, Michel says "C'est", he could be referring to his situation in general, and not specifically blaming Patricia.

Other translations have made Vital's misquotation more obvious. In the English captioning of the 2001 Fox-Lorber Region One DVD, "dégueulasse" is translated as "scumbag", producing the following dialogue:

MICHEL: It's a real scumbag.
PATRICIA: What did he say?
VITAL: He said, "You're a real scumbag".
PATRICIA: What's a scumbag?

The 2007 Criterion Collection Region One DVD uses a less literal translation that renders the French into a familiar American colloquialism:

MICHEL: Makes me want to puke.
PATRICIA: What did he say?
VITAL: He said you make him want to puke.
PATRICIA: What's that mean, "puke"?

(comentário de OzuKardozi no Youtube)

(2008)