Well maybe "everyone" would not hate it if Godard had actually managed to think of something to say before setting out to film this "excellence". Or had some kind of a story to tell. Or some kind of an aesthetically interesting vision to put forth. What we got instead is this so-called "essay" as his apologists seem to put it - a bunch of banal, incoherent, sophomoric rambling that has apparently something to do with the perils of American imperialism and urban alienation. How unfortunate then that there´s no rhyme or reason to the way these soul deadening tendencies are translated onto film; making vague gestures is, according to Mr Godard, apparently all that´s required to constitute an ideological statement. And then them buggers wonder why he´s so often called "pretentious"... It´s just bloody awful. Awful.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
I agree for the most part.. Unfortunately, 99% of the movies made in my lifetime (I'm 36) are crap, so I have to watch this.
I could have done without the common retarded questions and comments, one scene for example..
"Where were you?"
"At the garage"
"How do you know it is a garage? Maybe it is a pool or something else" -- this is probably why people run away when I mention a French movie. "Half of them are avante-garde, which means its French for BS."
"Avante-garde... Hmmm, that means it's good." or the typical, "That's-what-its-supposed-to-be" defense of everything.
But the lead actress might have been the prettiest woman I've ever seen in a movie, and most familiar names don't seem to be. I just saw a picture of Marina Vlady at 71 years of age, still very pretty. Must be a Russian thing?
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