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wisp of Louis Malle. A fire that obscures

Wisp : small flame can be seen in places where organic matter is decomposition.

is often said that the wisps are normally and frequently, in swamps and cemeteries. No wonder, then, that the title of this film bears the same name as the phenomenon that refers, as it is told here is but a slow death and decay of the soul of a human being. Alain Leroy .

That obscure object of desire ...

For his fifth film, shot in an effective black and white, the interesting filmmaker Louis Malle opts for neglecting the aspect of designing the scripts of his films (as do for the first time in his previous film, "Vie privée" ) and prefers to adapt the novella "Le Feu Follet written by the late, bloody and controversial Pier Drieu La Rochelle, which focuses on telling the last hours in life a suicide called Alain Leroy (character inspired by the Dadaist poet Jacques Rigaut ).

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION!

Alain, a writer by profession, not entirely recovered alcoholic (shown he bluntly), recently divorced and tired of everything, is a helpless emotionally. Without any hope or reason to live every day. Do not empathize with anyone and do not let anyone glimpse or a part of your being. His life is extinguished and will not do anything about it ... And that is because it is embedded in a cold society, frivolous, deceitful and hypocritical in which neither can nor wants to join. Malle not explain at any time, although it is exposed to the public, why Alain takes refuge in drink and the reason for such negative feelings, however much we may speculate on it, which gives the film more devastation if possible, because when they go for comfort, an answer that away from the idea of \u200b\u200bdeath, in his supposed friends and acquaintances is only coldness and distance. It is sad but also very true and true. Most people know that we close, move from interest and appearances. Perhaps if we were seeing it in an extreme situation and acudiésemos to them, we happen as Alain . Horrified to discover we are alone in the world ... Or maybe not, who knows. But better, perhaps, would not try to prove ...

So many people ... And only! ...

Wisp pessimistic is a journey (to the music of the film, by Erik Satie helps a lot) and nothing purifier, a slow journey to the corners nihilist darkest of the mediocre and empty ghosts of its existence, its consumed feelings, as if the spirit of "Nausea" Sartre had been taken over Malle. A possible way trip. And how could it be otherwise, as we know from the beginning of the film, it ends with a fade to black eternal recorded in the eyelids of the protagonist.
careful not to burn with flames of fire, because there is only darkness in him ...

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