ok, so he knows she cheated, and she knows she cheated. also, there is the possibilty of her being pregnant with the other guys kid (which they discuss). so why are they suddenly okay with it all at the end of the film. i think im missing something.
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The ending has nothing to do with morality. it's just a chance to make a pun on the word 'infâme' (infamous, bad) and 'une femme'.
Godard only cares about signifiers. He doesn't care about characters, thank god.
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well the way i see it, the guy cheated on her too, so hes willing to let it slide for her. then at the same time, they sort of (ridiculousy) rationalized her actions by saying, lets *beep* now so we can forget about the guy you *beep* 10 minutes ago. sort of a bizarre ending, but not that bad really. i think you can say the same thing about the movie in general.
shareYou seem to have missed the part where Emile sleeps with a prostitute while Angela is sleeping with Belmondo. Through the movie, Emile and Angela have been awful toward each other. She says it best when she says (something like) "when we're together, we're not together and vice versa." Relationships can be complicated, especially in their formative stages. So this relationship has a rocky start, which we see in the movie. By the end of the movie, maybe they realize that they do love each other. In real life people really do forgive each other for awful things, and then go on to make their relationship work.
sharein the bed, they say to each other: let's make love, so when I'm pregnant the baby will be yours. its a joke... the fact that they cheated on each other doesn't really matter. the point is that she, la femme, gets what she wants: getting pregnant. As to say that women in the end always get what they want.
"I collect blondes and bottles" - The Big Sleep
in addition to the fact that he was sleeping around himself, i think emile is genuinely surprised that she actually goes through with it and sleeps with someone else looking to get pregnant, he seemed to think she wouldn't and was just full of hot air. i think partly he was jarred a little and would prefer to gloss over the alfred thing, get her pregnant thus giving her what she wants, if that means they stay together. underneath the name calling and ugly words and dalliances with other people, these two were in love. besides, despite the question of "comedy or tragedy?", the playfulness of the movie was leading up to this being a comedy, the whole time.
It's yet another in a long series of diversions in an attempt to avoid responsibility.
It also shows how foolish young people in love can be- I think it tries to capture this sort of 1960's youth in paris vibe. I enjoyed the film.
shareI thought it was much more satirical than that... they rationalize that if they have sex right now, then the baby will definitely be his, which doesn't make any sense. Similar to Breathless and Band of Outsiders, I think these characters are stuck in the conventions of their genre... *SPOILER* Jean Seberg turns in Belmondo not because she doesn't want to be with him, but because she's been cast as a femme fatale who must bring about the end of the male protagonist. *END SPOILER* In a similar vein these characters must come to a happy ending, even though it doesn't make sense.
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