The Joy of Learning (Le Gai Savoir)

12,247 images speak of her.

22,843...

72,000... 127,000...

444,000 males speak of her. About 2,600 meters.

127,000 will be faithful.

Ouch!

No, don't move. I'm also stopping.

It's an anti-atomic umbrella.

Yes, but I use it as a reflector of consciousness.

Who are you?

Where are you going?

Where do you come from?

She comes from underneath the sea.

She was a third world delegate for the new Citroën factories in the North Atlantic.

She was fired for giving pocket tape recorders with printed circuits

to the employees.

So that they could record all the abuse from the French bosses.

Her name is Patricia.

She's the daughter of Lumumba and the Cultural Revolution.

Said he.

- Émile Rousseau. - Said she.

We know, in fact, that the opposition to the left

obtained from its accomplices in the government

that schooling in France be obligatory until the age of 55.

This morning, 25,000 urban youths, including Émile,

happily presented themselves to the opening of classes

at the College of Sciences in the city of lights.

But there was a sign that said classes were full

and the doors were guarded

by the 118.4th Armored Regiment of Parachutists.

Since Émile and his schoolmates wanted to enter by force,

the dean of the college called the minister of civil war

for him to order the parachutists to fire on them.

The works of mathematician Laurent Schwartz,

which had been presented to the Russell Tribunal two months before,

served to calculate the angle of firing,

since it was the same used by the B-52s

when their white phosphorus bombs

destroyed the silk factories of Hanoi.

That's how Émile was shot in the heart.

Luckily, he carried under his sweater

the latest issue of Les cahiers du cinéma.

His injury was minor.

Why did you do that?

Question of method. And yourself?

Me...

Me.

Me. Learn.

Make them learn.

And it's up to me to turn the weapon against the enemy

with which they attack our language.

Yes, learn. All we wanted was to learn.

To have the three To's.

- Which are? - To read. To write. To count.

In the end, it's not a very funny problem.

Nope.

- We have to find a solution. - We're not going to stay here.

And naturally, as always, we're all alone.

Obviously, since we're in the Middle Ages.

France is still a democracy,

and the Party isn't ready to take over.

After all, maybe we're not as alone as we think.

After all, yes. We're on TV, right?

Yeah, so?

Television is in all households. Why couldn't we be as well?

A home, isn't that an optical thing?

And in South America, there are the homes of the revolution.

So we should go into people's homes and ask, so that we can learn more.

First, to learn more. Then we'll see.

Yes.

First, to learn. That's not bad.

Okay.

To learn.

A society, in church.

Rousseau.

Until the end of the earth.

And I searched.

At its simplest expression.

SOUND

So, his call...

And finally, we...

People have decided to...

We can't really understand.

Of course, they're speaking out of order.

We're all German Jews! We're all...

We can't really understand.

Of course, they're speaking out of order.

- And for the rest... - Solida...

- We can't really understand. - And for the first time...

Of course, they're speaking out of order.

I think that...

- I had gone... - To the ends...

knowing

- Of the earth... - Searching for...

What Rousseau calls...

Progress almost unaffected...

- Its... - Beginnings.

- And I... - Looked for a society...

- Reduced to its simplest... - Expression.

The society of the Afranics was at the point where all I could find were men.

- The Afra-what? - Afranics.

A-F-R-A-

N-I-C-S.

N-A-F-A...

R-I-C-S.

F-R-A-N-C-A-I-S,

French.

Yes, it's the French of the year 2000, the Afranics.

the re-action

- After the mutations of the computers. - Yes.

the one-dimensional man

In the universities, we can meet...

This disorder is really getting annoying.

No, listen,

we study links, relations, differences.

Organized like this, we can put into function

the factories and universities

for the profit of the national collectivity of all.

This disorder is really getting annoying.

No, listen,

we study links, relations, differences.

The armed forces of the state can do nothing against them.

Well, then, off to work.

Might as well study that.

We'll start over from scratch.

No, before starting over, we must go.

We'll go back to zero.

And once we get there?

Well...

we'll look around...

see if there are any traces.

Deep down, we're going to search for what's left.

It's true, for social studies,

it's not about composing man, but to dissolve him.

- Is that it? - Yes, of course.

Of course. To find the solution, whether chemical or political,

one must dissolve.

Dissolve hydrogen, dissolve parliament.

Here, we're going to dissolve image and sound.

- C-I? - T.

- E. - N.

- E. - L.

- M-A. - E.

V-I-S-I-O-N.

T-E-L-E-

V-I-S-I-O-N.

C-I-N-E-M-A.

C.

I-N-E.

M.

A.

T.

E.

JOY OF KNOWING

L-E.

V-I.

S.

I.

O-N.

Images, do we choose them? Or do we encounter them by chance?

By chance, since we don't know exactly what they are.

Any image.

That's not very scientific.

I don't agree. Chance is structured just like unconsciousness.

The mentality of education is... As well in...

Our unions have... We're made to...

- Student! Unity! - Well, everything went...

- The protest that... - The president...

Equality!

So, in an image, we must discover a method.

Yes, we must find the discourse of its method...

and ours as well.

But then we must not forget to self-criticize ourselves afterwards.

And if we find this method, it will give us laws of fabrication.

At the very least, reference points.

Therefore, maybe one day, the fabrication of images

will be based off known things, as opposed to unknowns,

as they are currently created in Hollywood, in Moscow,

in the RTF studios in Paris, at the BBC in London,

at the Rai in Italy, at the Shochiku in Tokyo, etc.

The first image.

You're only speaking of images. You've forgotten sound.

No, I haven't forgotten.

It's the same thing.

But we can isolate them.

In isolated, there is "isle."

We are also isolated.

An isle.

- Robinson. - Yes, Robinson.

We must absolutely not imitate him.

- He was a fascist. - Robinson?

Yes.

In evidence, he immediately made Friday his slave.

What we need to discover are images and sounds

that are free.

For example, say, "Oh."

I told him say, "Say," and now, Stalin.

I told him, "Say," and now, Stalin.

Theoretically, these two sounds have nothing to do with one another.

No.