I didn't have the strength to get to the bottom of it

Non ho avuto la forza di andare a fondo - March 10, 2016

“I didn't have the strength to get to the bottom of it.“ Tommasso (Bernhard Wicki) tells Lidia (Jeanne Moreau) this at the beginning of La Notte, from the bed of his Milanese clinic. I know, sometimes I give the impression of having seen only one film, but as I said: I dig deeper. 

"Quante cose si finiscono per sapere se si resta un po' soli. E quante cose restano da fare [...] Mi viene il sospetto di essere rimasto un po' ai margini di un' impresa che invece mi riguardava. Non ho avuto la forza di andare a fondo." - Tommasso, La Notte, Antonioni

(“How many things we end up knowing if we stay a little alone. And how many things remain to be done [...] I have a suspicion of having remained on the margins of an enterprise that actually concerned me. I didn't have the strength to delve deeper.”)

And the question of margins resurfaces. It's also about lines. And I've been circling around it for a few posts now. For me, it's mixed with the words of talvera, termièra, border that also means language. Of this space that precisely has no bottom, that remains linear like the road Ives Roqueta talks about in Verd Paradís, so well foreshadowing this internet.