Russia-Ukraine Invasion
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Jean-Luc Godard: "Zelensky's intervention at the Cannes festival is self-evident if you look at it from the point of view of what is called "mise en scène": a bad actor, a professional comedian, under the eye of other professionals of their own professions.
I think I had to say something in this sense long ago. So it took the staging of an umpteenth world war and the threat of another catastrophe to let us know that Cannes is a propaganda tool like any other. They propagate the Western aesthetic, what...
To realize this is not much, but it is something. The truth of the images advances slowly. Now, imagine that war itself is this aesthetic deployed during a world festival, whose stakeholders are the states in conflict, or rather "in interest", broadcasting representations of which we are all spectators... you and me.
I hear people often say "conflict of interest," which is a tautology. There is no conflict, big or small, unless there is an interest. Brutus, Nero, Biden, or Putin, Constantinople, Iraq, or Ukraine, there's not much that's changed, other than the massification of murder."
- https://www.apar.tv/…pablo28
- Fuck me, you really are tedious.Continuity
- Just to be clear, his last line in this article is better translated as "not much has changed, apart from the mass murder."garbage
- Loved your old stuff J-LG, but I think you're just bitter about getting the Jury Prize in 2014.garbage
- look at it any way you want, but when you strip it all back, it is a larger country attacking a smaller one for nothing but it’s own misjudged gainscruffics
- ^ More of authoritarian making a desperate landgrab because he's dying, and he's had fetishistic ambitions about the reunification of the USSR for decades.garbage
- Lot of history behind it, but it's naive to think any of this was a surprise, or that he was going to stop in Donbas.garbage