Just the end of the world

Abstract

Steve and Louis are tragic heroes of the present times, confronted with the “reality as it is”, this illness that poet Gérard De Nerval calls melancholy. Xavier Dolan translates the subjective depths of these contemporary heroes and it upsets us... But what agitates Steve and makes Louis silent? Dolan proposes to film these defense mechanisms against the violence of the world today: agitation or death, the cry or the silence, and the camera participates in these demonstrations, the square that Steve finally opens to breathe but which closes, inexorable, and the vagueness that often surrounds Louis’ gaze who will be absent forever. This world is not clear ... moreover we could bear this look on the darkness of the world today if it was not blurred in the manner of myopic gaze that has the advantage of being able to project on the world this that he can not find it?