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Joannie 2022-01-18 08:01:28

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Godard's Film Cultural Revolution

As a precursor to the May storm, the birth of this movie can be described as a historical event.

Love and philosophy have been replaced by revolutionary passion, and have expanded from the field of opposition to the expression of political stance.

Unlike the current society, the May Storm has clear targets for accountability, that is, the gap between the rich and the poor caused by the rapid development of the capitalist economy and the relative backwardness of public facilities. Now that the target of the attack has been set, the director's goal is to devote himself to it. The Maoist slogan is clearly opposed, and "Chinese Girl" is an ideal place for experimentation, but the film does not answer how to rebuild it after overthrowing the accountable object.

The film ignores traditional film narratives. The internal logic is that the couple’s deception of inheritance is the main event as a series. The character's personality is only supported by a few monologues and dialogue scenes, and is not the object of observation. This is inferred to be the director's contemptuous attitude towards the bourgeoisie.

The film cannot be separated from its historical background, and every passage can be seen as the voice of social issues.

Taking the residence of the hero and heroine as the first scene, the beginning of the movie is not used to establish the atmosphere and tone, and the plot is not based on the story afterwards. The dialogue between men and women on the balcony and the chaos of the car accident downstairs. At this time, the protagonist of the film is just a witness to the chaos, which can be used as an early warning for a series of events that will occur.

Discussion about 3p

It seems common for the heroine to tell her own experience under a single lens. Contemporary movies seem to be very common, but this kind of unedited lens can also be used by the director as a tool to protest against what he thinks is the Hollywood aesthetic hegemony. The question is whether it caused the rise of another hegemony). As the issue of sexual freedom is an indispensable part of the May storm, the director's intention cannot be more obvious in this scenario. The film environment at that time was not less strict than today's restrictions. The director did not specifically restore the scene at that time through images, but cleverly and elegantly presented this private process to the audience in the theater through the hostess's personal narration. Maybe the incident she told is well known to everyone, but in reality it will only unfold one-to-one in a private room, and the heroine’s costume (underwear), the curtains drawn, and the backlit figure all show this. The privacy may also be a bit of shame. The contradiction is that the things hidden in the box are shown publicly, which can be guessed at the time.

Traffic jam

Regarding the role of the plot, it is regarded as a transition to a completely chaotic road, with the first appearance of the corpse as an introduction. The inner meaning is that it was a mechanical tool that made people's life convenient, but it became a lead stone that dragged mankind, and its end was the brutal dragging of it into death. As a flashpoint to mobilize mania, the rural landscape along the way was invaded by large machinery. Farming livestock and modern transportation were intertwined, creating a surreal shuttle, and the end of the congestion was a car accident, which made the anxiety nowhere to rest. , Follow the hero and heroine to sprint past without a sprint.

Class struggle

A car accident triggered structural disruption. "We are all brothers and sisters, just as Marx said." The last group photo is a family portrait.

Breaking through the screen barriers through dialogue can produce thinking about whether the film is still realistic. The contrast between dramatic and realistic characters separates the audience from the hallucinations caused by previous mainstream movies.

Fictional character

The discussion of the fairy tale image on existentialism makes the audience feel ambivalent about the fictional characters in the film. As the protagonist said, "It's a terrible movie, all we meet are lunatics", that is, for the "right" movie A lunatic who doesn't fit the image of the movie has a double contradiction with the actualized male and female protagonists.

The political speeches of the French revolution, the romantic illusion of the Gaullists, similarly, through the intervention of the male and female protagonists, the fictional nature of the film is exposed and the entertainment is lost.

Black civil rights speeches

This speech became the background sound, an intuitive critique of the aforementioned scenes, and also served as a declaration of resistance.

Since the bourgeois society finally points to the burning ruins, the solution given by the film is to return to the ancient ocean. After being fought, the bourgeoisie became the proletarian’s meal, breaking the barriers of form, and the victorious proletarian became the philosophical class.

At the end of the film, the bourgeoisie represented by the heroine finally succumbed to fear, the distorted mask was completely removed, sociality was lost, and it began to chew on human flesh.

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Extended Reading
  • Jamil 2022-04-21 09:03:04

    Godard always finds beautiful women

  • Rickey 2022-04-19 09:02:43

    On the vanguard, I really have to obey Godard. Sixty years later, it is still so sharp. The ridicule of the bourgeoisie runs through the whole. The heroine's oral 3P and long shots of traffic jams are very impressive. But there is no doubt that the revolution has become the main theme, and the idea of ​​breaking the concept of class and race should be the ideal it wants to convey.

Weekend quotes

  • Saint-Just: [in the midst of a bourgeois' car collision] From French Revolutions to Gaullist weekends, freedom is violence.

  • Corinne: This isn't a novel, this is a film. A film is life.