Just Kill Yourself by Percy Kachelhoffer

Maybe it even encouraged the remarkable creative burst that followed. Perhaps thinking about suicide was cathartic and somehow some level of unhappiness out of his system. Car town usa san angelo, Computer only turns on when sideways, Google barbie. The final result was one of his breakthrough movies, Smiles of a Summer Night (1955). 'I postponed my suicide and returned home.' He threw himself into creation with unparalleled vigor. Nobody would have to feel sad or guilty.” Before Bergman could carry through his plan, he received a phone call requesting that he come back to Stockholm to work on a film. I was going to get in my car, take my foot off the brake, and drive over the serpentine roadway leading up to the hotel. He goes on to say “ I surrendered myself completely to the idea that the moment had arrived. He tells us “I have often toyed with the idea of suicide, especially when I was younger and my demons threatened to overtake me.”īergman explains this in Images: My Life in Film. Thinking about suicide doesn’t seem to have harmed Ingmar Bergman, the famous Swedish film director, who died at age 89 of old age.

Imagining suicide for Jeanneret is socially therapeutic. It’s on a par with Reflections of a Starving Man or Social Contrasts but it is more convincing because it is more frightening. Sans espoir is an unpleasant, shocking, and at the same, an effective plea for social justice. Poverty is what bothers Longoni and Jeanneret. Jennifer Michael Hecht’s beautiful invocation Stay is not the point here. Emilio Longoni didn’t care very much about restaurants and I’m sure that Gustave Jeanneret didn’t care all that much about suicide. Does Sans espoir, rather than saving the poor, encourage or even trigger suicide by its graphic representation? Is it more dangerous than helpful? Might the painting urge us to take our own lives rather than looking to the poor? I doubt it. I think that suicide better conveys social protest. But being excluded in this way from a plush restaurant is, like suicide, more of an idea than a real situation. Like Jeanneret, Emilio Longoni is saying that enough food and a little respect might make all the difference.

Just Kill Yourself by Percy Kachelhoffer