Au cœur des ténèbres

Une part de moi cherche à comprendre et ignore les avertissements de ma raison, une part de moi s’obstine à faire tomber les barrières de ma prison mentale et à trouver la clef qui ouvrira le verrou de ma rédemption.

« We could not understand, because we were too far and could not remember, because we were traveling in the night of first ages, of those ages that are gone, leaving hardly a sign--and no memories…

We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there--there you could look at a thing monstrous and free.

The mind of man is capable of anything — because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valour, rage — who can tell? — but truth — truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and shudder — the man knows, and can look on without a wink »  (Heart of darkness, Joseph Conrad, 1902)

Hommage à Peter Jackson et son film sur l’humanité révélée du primate Kong (King Kong, 2005).