- "The persons of their world lived in an atmosphere of faint implications and pale delicacies, and the fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to the young man to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done."
- The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
Back then I was a college student, a terrified and terrifying product of the social system I belonged to; a young girl who knew nothing and expected everything. Then one day, she began to think about the world where truth was never said. The moment I knew, I had left the buoys of false promises and tumbled along the wild waves , unleashed, powerful and fresh, full of tastes of new hopes. There, in the 80s, in China, began my voyage towards uncharted seas...
Already feeling all at sea? Good, because I'm not going to leave you alone. Here below I have put together a film review plus trailer, a collection of old photography, and a song to show you the Age of Innocence -- my age of innocence -- and how I would feel when I wake up in Beijing today, if I were there.
* In search of sex and politics: a cinema review published yesterday in Brave New World.
(I place here another trailer, which is better than the one I chose for the published article. It's in French.)
** Here is a slideshow of images from the past. I'm in none of these, but it's definitely me you see in there. Click on image to play.
And finally, this is the song of ...loss. I don't know exactly how, but it is.
I hope that through words, colours and sounds I have brought a remote time and place closer to your world. This feels like a diary. There, you have just had a peepshow into my heart. Not bad, huh?