Word: pinocchio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DUNSTER HOUSE. Pinocchio, plus Tweety and Sylvester cartoons, Mar. 24, 10 a.m., $.50. Chekhov's The Seagull, directed by Sidney Lumet...
...just as suddenly Jodorowsky is bored with such explanations. "Would you give me the great pleasure of speaking of Pinocchio for five minutes?" For various reasons, all grant his request. "What is Pinocchio? Pinocchio is our life. We are like a puppet. In a certain moment we finish our primitive life and we have consciousness. We have broken the strings. We think we are then free, but we are still machines, not humans. We must go to life and suffer in search for human life. We must become animal (and here Jodorowsky braws like a donkey), accept passions. Now Pinocchio...
...gravitated toward disaster out of stupidity, conformity, inertia, the need to run drug risks as a challenge to adults, and the dream that drugs are a short cut to truth and beauty. In their hopes and delusions, they resemble nothing so much as the poor, sad, small boys in Pinocchio who head for the land of free play and candy, only to end as whipped and harnessed donkeys...