Derrida

Derrida
by Amy Ziering, Kirby Dick

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Movie Review: elegant man probes,mines words,life-worlds,time,places,
Summary: 5 Stars

What about Love?
"I cannot speak in generalities about love" . . . "You must ask, pose a question".
This leads anyway to a brief excursion, "exergue" into what is BEing, that we love something, or someone, we love a person, but do we simply love things, qualities about that person,or the person him/herself eradicating the qualities, Tough question since "does he she make alotta of money"(end of quote)or have a fantastic body something Americans seem to be interested(obsessed)with/ in, especially when a film is being made.

The graphics the cinemagraphic feel(s) are fantastic the opening of the movement in a car it what looks like on-his-way-to work Paris it has a wonderful rhythm,the overweight apartment buildings (Six High, Ten across) slowing gliding on (the unseen road) like a wave. Derrida even probes the idea of "archive" what is testimony in the very act of making a film. He kindly explains to his Parisian class on this intrusion with a film crew to his left, " a gauche"

We see his library to the ceiling in a modest part of the home, the entire place is small,cramped, more contemplative.

"Did you read all these books?"

No "I read about four five of them, but I read those five very well"

We see him buttering a bagel or English muffin with sometransparent-like light-green/brown jelly anda large cup of black coffee,gently then returning the glass lid to the butter container: some breakfast! then saying good buy to his wife Marguerite also off to work.

Derrida has a wonderfully elegant glass office,computer dominating the desk with typical assortment of books mixed with writing ledgers with tablets,hard ansd softcards, scrap paper (S)outside; well with a glass ceiling and glass walls/windows to the front off his yard, no flowers just green; with interesting green elegant plants placed, mostly inside.

He visits Nelson Mandela's cell of 18 years on Robyn Island South Africa.Quite powerful boat ride. Then discusses "forgiveness" to a primarially white student body.Derrida believes in "irony" that it should challenge the commonsense, what we expect. We are always compelled to give the answer everyone already expects to hear. So "improvisation" is also important for it disrupts the stereotypical discourse we hear everyday.

We see him "thinking" as well, When asked a question like "Can/If your mother could have been a philospher and if she was how would that have changed things"

"Give me a moment. . . ." . . . it is a good question. . . "

There can never be "pure forgiveness" but "to forgive" to further a cause, or fashion change through forgeveness some part of reality,of time or the future(l'avenir) Derrida endorses.

There is some walking in this film as well as the opening crossing a street "Watch Out! Derrida exclaims (not shouting) to his hosts in New York University.". . . like the philosopher looking at the stars while falling into a well. . . "

If you are unfamiliar with Derrida, this is a good place to start, there are well tthought of excerpts spoken over the images and motions and movements, amnay from "Archive Fever"

His exposition of Echo and Narcissus was also interesting,, "all speech is blind" for it stops whatever else can be thought. And what then of philosophy, that it has wandered through history that it has always fed on its own anxiety, its own pain.

"I would have liked Hegel and Heidegger to speak about their sex lives"

Why?"

"Well it is something they never spoke about, they always kept their personal lives out of their texts."

Summary of Derrida