Denys Arcand – Le confort et l’indifférence (1982)
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If you ever wanted to understand the debate about the independence of Québec, this is likely the best documentary made on the subject. Sadly, it comes without subtitle. A few may find it somewhat demagogical… it mostly is once it enter the popular opinion, the average man take on it. But the politicians are also abhorrent and you hear it loud and clear. Those against it are very vocal, screaming anger and anguish, always yelling. Using the same scare tactics that always are used to defeat the opposition. Showing it to be dangerous, irrealistic, etc. Even, as a testament to how little have changed, taking the oil price as a measure of achievement, saying Canada have it the cheapest and that the independence of Québec would double it’s price.
So, it’s demagogical on both sides but you can’t help, even if you are against the independence of Québec, to feel disgust for the kind of arguements used against it. There is basically no way to be in favor of those colonised pricks, especially the clown that is Jean Chrétien. He was basically yelling: “I’m an idiot, I use english and french at the same time, watch me, I’m your future”… and indeed, he was our future and became the PM of Canada. I think both Canada and Québec would have been better countries divided than together. I even have a hard time understanding why the rest of Canada can disagree so wholeheartedly.
One of my favorite scene have Greeks working-class people speaking english and saying they will vote Yes… Saying the No is the capitalist option. “I can understand I’m not suppose to go with the Boss and the Capitalists who all tell me to vote No”
There is however a good argument against it from an immigrant social worker… which emerge from a perception of racism within the nationalist movement. It’s stronger than anything the politicians may have said. Recycling the far-right France slogan “La France aux français” for “Le Québec aux québécois”, that’s obviously a naive and one-dimensional approach that have played against the movement through out it’s history. I can agree with this person, so far as her perception hold true for a few extremists within the movement and may well appear scary to the immigrants.
The rationalization of a man like René Lévesque are very hard to argue, that is why the opposition had to act like raving-maniacs and scream bloody murder. If you seperate, you will die, there will be no more food on the table, no more gas to run your car, no more job, old folks will be left to die in the gutter, no more nothing. You don’t want to die, do you?
The whole of the movie play on parallel with quotes of “The Prince” of Machiavelli. Which work flawlessly, but is one of the part that make it play against it’s objectivity.
Le.Confort.et.l.Indifference.1982.DVDRip.AAC.2.0.x264.mkv
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Container: Matroska
Runtime: 1 h 48 min
Size: 1.52 GiB
Video
Codec: x264
Resolution: 716x480 ~> 716x537
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Frame rate: 23.976 fps
Bit rate: 1 836 kb/s
BPP: 0.223
Audio
#1: French 2.0ch AAC LC @ 161 kb/s
https://nitro.download/view/ABC76C074BB68E8/Le.Confort.et.l.Indifference.1982.DVDRip.AAC.2.0.x264.mkv
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Language(s):French, English
Subtitles:English
