Chaosophy - autonomous learning

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CINEMA FOU
Felix Guattari: What seems interesting to me with regard to this
film, Badlands [1973, by Terence Malick] , is that it shows us a story
of amour iou, which is precisely what the critics did not see. I think
that this makes people nervous. There are color elements, of blue,
that are really agonizing throughout. It is a film about mad love and
people refuse to accept these two dimensions of love and madness
in combination. If there weren't all the murders, everything that
makes one compare the film to Billy the Kid, The Wild Bunch,
Bonnie and Clyde, etc., this would be an avant-garde film and it
wouldn't get shown anywhere. In fact, the story is only there to support
a schizophrenic journey. At every turn, we are on the edge of
madness. It is this constant crossing of borders that seems perfectly
conveyed to me. What the critics retained, in short, was the idea
that this guy gets unhinged by dint of imitating James Dean. But
things don't happen like that at all. The first thing that one has to
realize is that the boy, Kit, should never be separated from the girl,
Holly. They make up a sort of double arrangement. Certain behaviors
of Holly belong to the schizo-process of Kit, although she herself is
not schizophrenic. Conversely, certain behaviors of Kit belong to
the completely avenge, normal world of Holly. Hence, it's absolutely
impossible to separate the normal and the pathological. What is
paradoxical is that the entire film is built around the idea that the
guy is not really mad. The proof is that he goes to the electric
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