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Chaosophy - autonomous learning

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He wants to be Nat King Cole. It is not at all the same as James Dean.<br />

He wants to sing. That is the world of crystallized people. They are<br />

grimacing, like TV stars. But as soon as you go beyond that, then it<br />

is a marine or airy world, a world of intensities. One goes there<br />

because the air is purer; it is the sand, the colors, the caresses. They<br />

say (the critics) that he treats her like an animal. That's wrong, it's<br />

an absolutely marvellous love story.<br />

There's another aspect of the film we have to talk about, the political<br />

aspect. The young cop who arrests him acts exactly like him.<br />

Exactly. He arrests him, then he shoots at him just to be mean, to<br />

scare him.<br />

It's the same type of stupidity. At a given moment, society becomes<br />

completely crazy. Because they are on the run, sheriffi accompany the<br />

kids to school' troops guard the central bank because there are rumors<br />

that they were going to attack it. Holly says: 'It's as if we were Russians. ))<br />

It's a critique of American society.<br />

In Night of the Living Dead there was the same mass phenomenon.<br />

Good Americans all go out with their guns and end up shooting this<br />

poor black guy who had nothing to do with anything.<br />

At first, one doesn't have to see this guy as being crazy.<br />

He is no more crazy at the beginning than at the end, or he is crazy<br />

all the time, it's just the way you look at it. Amour lou is madness no<br />

matter what. He says: "Me, I can lay all the girls, I have no problem,<br />

but you are something else"; or he says: "Besides, fucking, fucking,<br />

who cares Yeah, yeah, it was very good." He doesn't give a shit for

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