I identified myself in masoca plan with a poem that began: "When nothing is expected personally exalting". It's a lie. For a few years, my godson and his brother, fortunately normal, smart, good people, teenagers, convinced me to watch a movie together every time I go to their house. And we practice that ritual with shared joy. I was embarrassed by my responsibility in choosing them. But I breathe when they laugh at With skirts and crazy, they perceive that The apartmentis funny but also sad, they shudder with restlessness and fear with Psycho, they wish that The Godfather never ended. I even dare to witness the perverse Dangerous Liaisons and they are also seduced by that sophisticated game. So far I have not been wrong. I'm telling you what cinema means to me. I am proud of the pleasant discovery it represents for them.
My dear children would think with alarm that I have returned to the drink, returned to the prohibited substances, or they would try to enter a frenopathic if one day I decided that they would watch movies like Everything at once everywhere and Jeanne Dielman. I doubt they held out for more than 10 minutes. Then I would assure you that I have not suddenly gone crazy. That I do it so that they understand the barbarities that can be committed in the name of cinema. I would reveal to you that Everything at once everywhere, that idiocy about the metaverse, has received seven Oscars this year. And that Jeanne Dielman, that endless swim, has been declared the best film in the history of cinema, according to the learned criteria of 1,700 critics, academics and scholars, surveyed by Sight and Sound magazine. My little moviegoers wouldn't understand anything. Me neither. But it's better to laugh than to hallucinate.
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