AMOUR

Michael Haneke (2012)

'Pragma is the mature love that develops over a long period of time between long-term couples and involves actively practising goodwill, commitment, compromise and understanding.'

BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

Benh Zeitlin (2012)

Hope is imagination.

REMAINS OF THE DAY

James Ivory (1993)

To serve is to be implicit.  

To respect is not to question.  

A stiff upper lip for what apathy cares.

At all costs ignore your feelings.

Life will pass you by.

HOLY MOTORS

Leos Carax (2012)

We are animals with large brains and big imaginations so we have created an overstimulating environment for ourselves which confuses our identities.  We have come to use technology to deliver and express these contradicting personalities; travelling through space in our isolated bubbles often crashing into each other.  Two separate atoms colliding; occasionally compounding, sometimes exploding but usually just bouncing off in separate directions.  

The old technology will be replaced with new - but the evolution of our genes cannot be moved on so quickly and we are stuck with what we have.  We trundle through life playing our different roles but ultimately the goal is to remove the masks at the end of the day?

In the end we are all just animals.

BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI

David Lean (1957).

'What have I done?'



Single mindedness is madness?



'Madness! ...Madness!'



'The conduct of each of the two enemies was superficially dissimilar' - Pierre Boulle



The enemy within.