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Going Places
Les Valseuses
1974 · Film · 117 min
Directed by Bertrand Blier
Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeoisie holds dear, whether it’s cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She’s on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.
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To add more water to this article: for anyone reading books, papers or recordings dating before the very last years it is obvious that public morality is changing, rapidly and a lot.
A simple qualification of an human group (think women, Chinese, Jews, kids) was just a good joke yesterday and is now an offense. Contrary to what we may believe, our times are not more free than before on many topics, and many books (eg. Trois filles de leur mère) or movies (eg. Going Places/Les Valseuses, but even 007) could not be created today.
So keeping indefinite records is very dangerous for this reason too: you may believe your behavior is proper today but who knows what public morality will look like tomorrow?
(Just as a thought experiment: maybe watching horror movie will be considered a completely crazy thing to do and horror movie watcher will be asked to cure themselve in special detox centers. I, for one, have never understood what kind of pleasure one can get from watching an horror movie.)
(Thought experiment 2: In 20 years the animal defense movement become prominent and crazy, gets over the top, becomes the governement, and start legally killing human who showed disrespect for pets in their past life, checking the "logs". As a reaction a bunch of less crazy humans pull them out and instigate a defensive law against "over-loving animal", and then any blogger who's sent a caturday pic is suspitious forever.)
(Ok, that's imagination, but some recent event did show reality can be worse than imagination.)
edit: fixed a few words