Teorema (1968)
Andrés José Cruz Soublette: Pietro, the son
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Quotes
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Pietro, the son : I no longer even recognize myself. What made me like the others has been destroyed. I was like everyone else, with many faults, perhaps, mine and those of the world around me. You made me different by taking me out of the natural order of things.
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Pietro, the son : We must try to come up with new, unrecognizable techniques resembling nothing that's come before to avoid the childish and the absurd. One must build one's own world that allows no comparisons where previous standards don't apply. The standards too must be new, like the techniques themselves.
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Pietro, the son : No one must realize that the artist is worthless, that he's an abnormal, inferior being, squirming and slithering like a worm to survive. No one must ever witness his lapses into clumsy artlessness. Everything must appear perfect, based on unknown and hence unquestionable rules. Like a madman.
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Pietro, the son : The artist is a poor, trembling idiot, a second-rate hack who lives by taking chances and risks, like a disgraced child, his life reduced to the absurd melancholy of one who lives debased by the feeling of something lost forever.
