In Praise of the Calm Before the Storm

Every week I will look for a postcard with an image on it and force myself to write a story that correlates with that photograph, small enough to fit on a postcard. You can find all the stories on my instagram @Boojorii .

This week's card, I can't perfectly remember where I got it from. I think I picked it up at my uni recently, they have this table there filled with advertisements or announcements and flyers for art exhibitions and cinema stuff (since it's a filmschool). What I do know is that it's a still from the movie 'the Southener' by Jean Renoir. This time, it's a very short story because there wasn't a lot of space on the card left. It features a beautiful quote from André Bazin which goes as follows:

'En un certain sense, le cinéma ne peut mentir, et tout film peut être considéré comme un documentaire social. Dans la mesure où il vient satisfaire les besoins de rêve de la foule, il devient son propre rêve.'

In English:
'In a certain sense, cinema cannot lie, and every film can be considered a social documentary. Insofar as it satisfies the crowd's need to dream, it becomes its own dream.'