Chaosophy - autonomous learning

chair. And yet, his madness, the fact that he has a screw loose, etc.,
is constantly alluded to. For her part, Holly is presented as a steady
girl. For example, she says: ''I'll never let myself get carried away
with another daredevil again." Second negation after madness: love.
We are shown a love story which is totally beyond stereotypes, a
kind of extraordinary schizo love. For example, when Kit has just
lulled Holly's father, she says to him, "Don't worry," and gives him
a small slap that is both nagging and reassuring. Or again when they
flick for the first time, Kit pretends to smash his hand, a typical
schizo act. She tells him: "You're making fun of me, you don't care
how I feel." But his indifference is only apparent; one senses he is so
sure of his love that it never occurs to him to doubt her. It is only at
the end of the film, when she ends up leaving him, that there is this
very beautiful scene in which he angrily threatens to shoot her. But
finally, he makes an imaginary rendezvous with her knowing full
well he'll not see her again.
There are two ways of considering the world of schizo-desire: the
infrapersonal level of desiring-machines-how the world is organized
with systems of intensity of colors, impressions, appearances-and
the suprapersonal level, in direct contact with the socius.
I picked out several elements in these two categories. The
moment when he hits a can of food in the street, the moment
when he's in love, and the moment when he listens to seashells
and sees Holly coming as a white form. All this remains sort of
"normal." But there is also the moment when he shoots at the
fish, or shoots at the balloon, or shoots at the tires, and a series of
completely bizarre behaviors such as the theme of the stones that
one finds throughout the film. There are also explicitly crazy acts,
acts of agony: when he kills Holly's father and puts his body in
the basement, he takes up a toaster that reappears several times in
the film; when he puts Cato's body in a cool place and begins turning
round and round in a sort of military march with completely
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