This is Godard's most laissez-faire, unrestricted, culminating experiment in film form. If any film can represent Godard's artistic attainments and pursuits in the early days, it is undoubtedly "Weekend". The integration of Godard's elements, the insertion of a large number of illustrations and color subtitles blocked the continuity of the shot, and the continuity of segmentation viewing anytime and anywhere. A large number of text lines are spoken through actor monologues, either facing the camera or voice-over. The separation of text and picture is like PPT or visual perception. Godard's video experiment broke out completely in this film. At the same time, this film is also Godard's most expressive work.
At the beginning of the film, the camera focused on a woman, who told a man next to her in a dim room about her 3P fornication experience with a man and another woman. Next, a man and wife hurried out and started the car. This couple is the main character throughout the movie. They plan to get their mother's inheritance by unscrupulous means, so they rush to their mother's house eagerly. The husband is very anxious, afraid that there will be traffic jams at night. So he hurriedly started the car, and when he started, he ran into a neighbor's car. The two families fought. The neighbor's man shot the couple and the husband immediately drove away.
As the saying goes, they are in a traffic jam in the end. And it was the traffic jam scene that became the most talked-about genius of Godard's career. In the eight-minute traffic jam, Godard's lens slowly moved horizontally from left to right, colorful, different shapes, and different functions of cars appeared in the lens from right to left while honking the horn. The husband drove slowly through the long queue of traffic jams. In the end, the camera came to the scene of a car accident, where people died and blood was shed. The couple drove fast across the blood-stained asphalt road. Since then, the film has developed in the direction of surrealism and arbitrary collage. The places where the couple went were the scene of the car accident, with dead bodies, blood, and deformed vehicles. Godard used the ubiquitous car accidents to express his clear position: either traffic jams or car accidents. Then they had a bumpy road and were hijacked by a young couple. He grabbed someone's car and asked two neurotic philosophers for directions, but the answers were not what they asked. You need to answer political questions to get on the bus. Godard's unique sense of humor is everywhere. Listen to a pianist playing Mozart piano music in the messy factory yard. The camera rotates round after round to look around the people in the yard to listen, a total of three rounds. Time stops, art is the highest. The couple found two garbage workers to eat. As a result, the garbage workers were eating sandwiches while looking at the camera to express political opinions about white colonization and class exploitation. The husband killed the mother, and the dead chicken on the mother's hand fell to the ground, and blood was sprayed on the dead chicken. They got 5 million inheritance and became rich. As a result, the couple and friends holding the 5 million inheritance were caught by the Communist guerrillas during a picnic. (Godard really loves the Communist Party...) The husband was killed, and the pig was stewed into soup, and the wife and other guerrillas ate it. Another guerrilla was reciting words about class, beliefs, and ancient oceans from beginning to end under the rhythm of a drum set.
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