The Quiet Illusion

the Quiet Illusion is a Documentaire of opinion Québécois left in 2006 with the cinema.

Synopsis

This documentary of opinion gives a progress report on the Québécois Modèle, bringing several criticisms there. One compares the model with an unattainable social democrat ideal but especially which directs all the governmental programs. One described there the industrial relations policies like supporting, in spite of them, the rich person with the detriment of the poor. One denounces also the omnipresence of the trade unions which, with the governments obsessed by the national question, are the shape of statute quo which slows down Quebec.

Distribution

Realization: Joanne Marcotte
Production: Denis Julien and Joanne Marcotte

Speakers

Marcel Boyer, Economist, University of Montreal
Breton Réjean, Specialist in law the labor, University Laval
Yves Chartrand, Fiscalist, Québécois Center of training in taxation Inc.
Alain Dubuc, Chronicler, the Press
Jean-Yves Duclos, Economist, University Laval
Robert Gained, Economist, HEC Montreal
Normalized Khozhaya, Économiste, economic Institut of Montreal (IEDM)
Philip Merrigan, Économiste, Université from Quebec in Montreal
Claude Montmarquette, Économiste, Université of Montreal
Frédérick Têtu, Professor de Philosophie, Collège François-Xavier-Garneau

In addition to these experts, 11 students and/or young adult share their opinion in group.

Reception

Hardly left in rooms, the film was the subject of a criticism very little eulogistic in the daily newspaper the Press. In its chronicle, the critic cinema Mario Cloutier compares the feature film with a " film of horror which makes really fear, sailing between the awkward exposure of political theses, the demagogy and pure and simple handling " , in particular because of the use makes " old techniques of handling of the spectator " and of coarse examples and awkwardly presented.

He results from it, with the eyes of the chronicler, a " repetitive film '' annoys most of the time. And when with semi-course, some ideas are well articulated on the universality of the programs and the education rights, these remarks are accompanied by music by elevator ".

Also the journalist to declare: " the problem with this too long televisual report, being made pass for a documentary big screen, is not that it appears drawn from the paperboards of the ADQ (democratic Action of Quebec) nor which it exposes several expensive theories to the right-hand side. Not more than he does not want to be provocative. The simple wrong of the Quiet Illusion is to be a bad film. Alarmist, demagog and manipulator, achieving exactly the opposite of what he preaches, us fascinating for bags. "

On the other hand, the leader-writer Mario Roy wrote in particular, in an article entitled the Crucifixion : “ the craftsmen who manufactured this film with pieces of string, without institutional assistance, are perhaps not themselves conscious. But the question that documentary the the quiet illusion raises is philosophical. It touches the report/ratio which the man maintains with reality. It relates to the irreducible thirst for the human being for the faith. ”. It continues further while writing: “(...) the description of the religious aspects of the dogmas which found the good old man models Québécois constitutes certainly the most attractive part of the quiet illusion . The image lends itself well, indeed with such a demonstration. Trade-union processions until the sermons of the social democrat clergy while passing by the “burial of social peace” (December 2003), the statue of the blue collar Jean Lapierre, the liturgy of the confrontation and other objects or ceremonies of the short worship, all that is shown constitutes a holy introduction to Québécois reality that one will crucifiera then briskly. ”. And he concluded as follows: “(...) it would not be useless that it is largely attended, in particular by the young people, once completed, of course, reading of the missal Parlons sovereignty at the school and of the trade-union breviary Parlons political! , available to gets of all the good institutions of teaching. ”

Eight days later, the chronicler Alain Dubuc , who appears besides in film, wrote this in an article entitled But where is thus the left? : “(...) there is an idea of this film that I divide without reserves, and on which I wrote much, and they are the perverse effects of the universality of the social programs. It is this idea which caused more the strong reactions of the guards of orthodoxy and the media elites, in particular radio-Canadian. And it is the most beautiful illustration of the ossification of the thought known as of left and its slip towards the line. ”. And he concluded by this observation on the concept of left and right-hand side in policy: “ Pourquoi the left directed is against these ideas? Because it is now the line, which incarnates the opposition to progress and the resistance to change. It sticks to the symbols, it defends of the assets, it clings to the status quo , it develops the past, it resists the debates which would lead to the change, it refuses ways which would enable us to go further on the way of the social progress. It is the definition even conservatism. ”

Far from equalizing the success and the impact of political lampoons such as the boreal Error , the film all the same involved a wave of articles and comments in a multitude of newspapers and blogists, in English and French, reaching even a top of more than 125.000 pages listed by the Google search engine after two weeks of presentation in the cinemas of Montreal.

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Exit into the room

The film being a private production, it was not deployed in several rooms. It was launched to Quebec the November 8th 2006, in the Room Dined-Bélanger on Sillery, then was found with the Clap later in November. As of January 2007, it presented to the Beaubien cinemas and Park of Montreal, at the House of the Cinema, in Sherbrooke, and a presentation with Bay-Comeau and Seven-Islands was envisaged. A remote transmission took place on the Channel D on April 1st, 2007. The DVD is also available on Internet dated February 28th, 2007.

External bond

Official site of the Quiet Illusion
Critical of the Quiet Illusion (the Press)

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