#dernier jour

[cookie-nigel-dolan]

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (2000)  –  Last Day

[dandanjean]

Le jour dernier

Un jour viendra où le futur et le passé vont disparaître. Même le présent va se dérober. Pour certains, ce sera le grand voyage, pour d’autres, le retour à la condition originelle ou la disparition pure et simple de la vie. Il est possible de vivre dans le déni de la mort et de disparaître sans trop en avoir conscience. Moi j’aime faire le point de temps en temps et me rappeler ce que je veux…

[hayaomiyazaki]

Gaspard Ulliel and Thibault Vinçon LE DERNIER JOUR — 2004 dir. Rodolphe Marconi

[fhtagn-and-tentacles]

LE DERNIER JOUR DE HPL

Art by Jakub Rebelka

[fidjiefidjie]

“La conclusion de l’été pourrait être douce-amère alors que nous réfléchissons à tout ce que nous avons fait cette saison.” 🍃🍂

Blog de Callie

Gif de Ginnie Hsu

[nando161mando]

Antifascist Mobilisation in Sheffield against racist riots.

Mobilisation antifasciste à Sheffield face aux émeutes racistes de ces derniers jours.

[empirearchives]

Napoleon hallucinates Josephine a week before his death in 1821

From the timeline based on the St Helena notebooks of General Henri Gatien Bertrand, Cahiers de Sainte-Hélène. Les 500 derniers jours (1820-1821)

28 April 1821:

Napoleon was no longer himself, was becoming anaemic because of internal bleeding, was becoming less and less lucid, indeed occasionally delirious. During the night he said that he had seen Josephine and spoken to her, he thought he had been walking in the garden at Longwood, he kept requesting oranges. The doctors began to fear the worst. The Grand Marshal Bertrand exclaimed: “I kept thinking about how great the change was! Tears kept coming to my eyes as I looked at that man, so awe-inspiring, who had commanded so proudly, so absolutely, beg for a coffee spoon, asking permission, obedient like a child… “Voilà le grand Napoléon”: to be pitied, brought low!”

(Fondation Napoléon)

[terresdebrume]

Charles: It's like. It's like they're stuck on repeat.

Edwin: That's exactly what it is. If I'm right, it's a loop. And they've been stuck in it since 1994.

Crystal: He's been killing his family over and over again since 1994?!

Ce dialogue est présenté 100% sans ironie.

[dolphin1812]

I've been reading Hugo's The Last Day of a Condemned Man, and the edition that I have comes with a preface from 1832.

It's from before the June Rebellion (March), but it still feels quite ironic!

And Hugo's love of Louis-Philippe feels different here, too. The close relation may have played a role, just as it did in his other work, but when he writes this:

"Yet we admit that if ever a revolution appeared capable and worthy of abolishing the death penalty, it was the July Revolution. It really seemed to fall to the most humane popular movement of modern times to do away with the barbaric punishment of Louis XI, Richelieu and Robespierre, to stamp the inviolability of human life into the law's brow. 1830 deserved to break the blade of '93."

I actually don't view this purely cynically? He may have genuinely thought this at the time (especially since he was more conservative then than later in life, as is reflected in his greater skepticism of the French Revolution; he may have remained against the death penalty, but I feel like his portrayal of it here rings much more negatively than it does in Les Mis). I just think it's interesting to reflect on the difference between a Hugo who admired Louis-Philippe as a patron and who was watching his policies in the moment than a Hugo reflecting on the consequences of those policies, rejecting the institution that the man represented, and still praising the man himself.

At the same time, the expectation of greater conservatism made me forget that this is still a predecessor to Les Misérables in many ways, and his condemnation of "gentlemen" (Hugo's word) who only wanted to abolish the death penalty when it affects them -- not when it affects ordinary people, who suffer the most from it -- was a striking reminder of that. Hugo's class-related issues are present, too (he makes some strange comments about slang that I can see that digression growing out of, and while the narrator's education is important in establishing the possibility that he could have written all of this, he also links it to being "civilized"), but I think I expected it to be worse than it is? He also describes the suffering of families left behind after the death penalty takes the person they depend on, which reminded me a lot of Valjean's sister and her children. Interestingly, he also stresses the suffering of those executed who have no families, arguing that their status as orphans of society is equally tragic. It made me think of Gavroche and his lack of options if he had grown up because of his marginalization, but it was also just moving to read on its own, particularly since it argued for caring for people beyond merely the strictures of the family.

It's fascinating to see how the narrator is and isn't like Valjean as well. On the one hand, he's extremely different in that he's our first-person narrator; we rarely get insight into Valjean's thoughts, instead seeing him through the eyes of others, but here, everything comes from this one man. At the same time, I do feel like Hugo's trying to find a way towards the "everyman?" I haven't finished, but so far, we don't know what the specific crime that brought this man to the scaffold is. We do know that he's leaving behind a mother, a wife, and a daughter, and that his daughter is his chief concern. With Valjean, we knew the details of his crime, but we also had time to delve into the different facets of his life that led to such a harsh sentence, and empathy for him on the basis of his "crime" was important in critiquing poverty. Here, we need to empathize with our narrator in spite of his crime, so keeping it vague is powerful. Whether he killed or robbed to support his family like Valjean did, it doesn't matter; what matters is his life.

(And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that there's a bread thief in the novel).

Justice is also terrifyingly routine. The judges who sentenced him care less that he will die and more that they stayed up late deliberating his case. As he's being transferred, the usher drops his snuff, and when the prisoner says that he's losing more than him (as he will die), the usher complains that he'll not have any snuff on the trip to Paris, not processing that the man he's speaking to is going to lose his life. It's insensitive, of course, but it also illustrates how desensitized everyone involved in this process is.

[locura-azul]

Le Dernier Jour (2004)

[briselegeredansletemps]

Le dernier jour a Hanoï je me suis arrêté au bord du "lac de l'épée restituée" où se trouve, je crois, "la tour de la tortue". Je me fie à internet.

J'ai dessiné deux heures.

En fait, j'étais la depuis peut-être 15 minutes, une petite fille s'est assis à côté. Jennie, 7 ans, s'est présenté à moi et elle a tapé la discute pendant le reste du temps en dessinant avec moi. "T'es un artiste? Quel âge tu as? Moi ma maman m'a dit d'aller te parler et de dessiner parce que comme ça je parle anglais. "

Sa maman est venue dire bonjour. Puis elle a disparu un bon moment.

Jennie m’a fait dessiner des trucs en mode "et ça tu peux le faire?". A chaque fois elle prenait des feutres et en 5 traits elle traçait les lignes que je m'étais 25 minutes à faire apparaître.

C'était peut-être le meilleur moment de ses deux semaines.

[we-can-be-heroes]

[hayaomiyazaki]

LE DERNIER JOUR (2004) dir. Rodolphe Marconi

[apodicticdotnet]

"The Last Days of Disco" grande size movie poster (1998).

[adrastee-rpg]

juste..c'est trop.

respect

nom masculin 1. Sentiment qui porte à accorder à qqn de la considération en raison de la valeur qu'on lui reconnaît. Inspirer le respect. 2. Ce que certains rpgistes ne connaissent pas ou plus.

Foutage de gueule

1. Expression familière, voire grossière, qui fait référence à l'expression se foutre de la gueule de quelqu'un et qui s'emploie pour désigner une moquerie ou du dédain vis-à-vis d'autrui.  2. Ce que de trop nombreux rpgistes devraient arrêter de faire et appliquer un peu plus le nom masculin défini juste au dessus.