Jasmine

“Terayama Shuuji once said “Throw away your books, rally in the streets”.
But back then, I thought — rally in the streets, and then what?”
― Tomihiko Morimi, 四畳半神話大系

“Every film is political. Most political of all are those that pretend not to
be: 'entertainment' movies. They are the most political films there are
because they dismiss the possibility of change. In every frame they tell
you everything's fine the way it is. They are a continual advertisement for
things as they are.”
― Wim Wenders

“I dislike the manipulation that's necessary to press all the images of a
film into one story; it's very harmful for the images because it tends to
drain them of their 'life'. In the relationship between story and image, I
see the story as a kind of vampire, trying to suck all the blood from an
image. Images are acutely sensitive; like snails they shrink back when you
touch their horns. They don't have it in them to be carthorses: carrying
and transporting messages or significance or intention or a moral. But
that's precisely what a story wants from them.”
― Wim Wenders

“Life has become the ideology of its own absence.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life