Although I like French films very much, I am more fond of literary films of the past 20 years, and I lack the courage to try the various waves of the earlier period. Until one day I saw Godard's Piero the Madman at the Film Archive.
What can I say, I watched this movie in awe, and it was in a movie theater, on film. I have the following impressions:
1. I don't understand. Totally didn't understand. The people next to me fell asleep when they saw it halfway through. Although I persisted until the end, I really didn't understand it. If you don't understand it, you just don't know what Godard wants to do, why he made this movie, or what he wants to express.
2. The plot of Piero the Madman has no sequence, that is to say, if the stories that happened in different scenes are edited separately, and then put together again, it is still a movie, and it is no different from before.
3. This is a very long movie, and there are countless times in the middle that I thought it was going to end, but it didn't end, and the next scene appeared; and when I did end it, I definitely thought it wasn't over until "Fin" appears on the screen.
Later I went to ask Pippi, this guy was familiar with foreign film history, I asked him what happened to Godard. He said, "In the past, there was a group of people who thought that the traditional film method was not very interesting, so they made innovations and made new ones, and developed into making movies that people can't understand, and they deliberately made people who watch the fun unhappy. Among them Godard has been insisting on being right with the audience all his life, which is commendable. Haha. I asked again, what about Truffaut? I think Truffaut is okay, his "The Last Metro" is very good! Pippi said: Truffaut defected from that position in the later stage, and she insisted on it. Later, she felt that it was okay to entertain the public, so she made some kitsch movies, "The Last Metro" is one of them. I'm down!
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