![]() Now he's free to wander the world which the man in Escaped had struggled to break free to. ![]() So what does he do in this next one? The same youth once more, but now he's not bound by duty to truth or has any work set out before him. It was Bresson peeling away the romanticizing of suffering of Diary, what was left was simply the work of breaking free from that prison- world, stoicism in place of romanticism. In Man Escaped the same youth becomes a prisoner, also endures a life of anguish, but now endures quietly, without torment and piety. In Diary he was a pious young priest who wanted absolute sincerity in the face of life but people were complicated beings, the journey caused spiritual torment, questions of angst abounded. It's once more about a lone youth who struggles with a life that suffocates. More revealing is another trajectory being delineated, human- based. Even more sparse, even more laconic, removes flourish and leaves bare floors so that we endure something being revealed in the pacing. Already, since Diary of a Priest, I can see him moving in a direction, growing that philosophy. He's all about striving, the question is what for? If it's purity, as most would agree, and purity always seems like something to aspire to, is it a purity that we can take as a base for living? I don't think I will have conclusions before Balthazar, perhaps his most famous. More interesting than any individual film, it's Bresson's philosophy that I feel is worth examining.
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