We Spin Around the Night Consumed by the Fire
1978 · 100 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 323 VOTES · DIR. Guy Debord
Overview
A Latin palindrome is the title of Guy Debord's last film, in which he, as narrator, explains that he will make neither concessions to the tastes of his viewers nor to the dominant ideas of his day. After extensively insulting the audience that goes to the cinema to forget its heteronomous life, the film becomes autobiographical, using images from the world of spectacle: advertising brochures, clips from feature films (Les enfants du paradis), comics, aerial footage of Paris, tracking shots through Venice, photographs of friends – all commented on by Debord, with an at times melancholy undertone: "This Paris no longer exists." His assessment is that one of the great pleasures of his life has been the sensation of the passage of time, and as a witness to the disintegration of social order, he has loved his epoch.
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00:02:02 I will make no concessions to the public in this film.
00:05:11 that are gloomy, ugly and unhealthy;
00:08:13 In this regard they are more like serfs
00:11:35 they serve themselves in the supermarkets...
00:14:26 this public grumbles about change only when it affects the cinema...
00:17:49 our continually increasing happiness and the ever more diverse...
00:21:32 to monopolize the stage under the present social conditions.
00:25:22 The petty people of the present age seem to believe...
00:28:46 that I began to lead a fully independent life;
00:33:32 and all the buildings that have since been built out of dull sophisms
00:37:11 A society which was already tottering, but which was not yet aware of this
00:41:19 and occasionally a few murderers
00:46:01 which continually pressured us to disperse
00:49:36 To every thing there is a season
00:53:25 You have to discover how to live the days ahead...
00:56:56 choosing those who would accompany him?
01:02:35 In either case they are waiting to access...
01:06:51 Our agitators disseminated ideas that a class society cannot stomach.
01:12:30 The charge begins slowly
01:15:55 Risks must be taken
01:19:37 they remain in the throat of the reigning system of lies.
01:23:03 As someone not without abilities once put it
01:27:59 the rest were turned away at the door.
01:32:23 And word is getting around that those who've been expropriating that life...