"Exhaustion" is fragmented and light. The whispers of young men and women, soft limbs jumping in the summer breeze, even the little noisy quarrels seem to be showing off knowledge and style, so it is a bit close to "The Opera" Dreaming of Paris. But the two Paris are different. Bertolucci used the eyes of the Italian director to photograph Paris before June or August. The emotions are too strong and the colors are too colorful. The boys and girls are confined to a narrow room, with passion stuck in their chests, as if waiting for a stone. The ignited match hits at one point, like a moth fighting a fire. Godard is different, black and white tones disperse colorful colors, flirting and ambiguity can only use words to clash with each other, and can only survive in the light and shadow of different brightness. However, the color is subtracted, and the emotions show a kind of eternal Yuru in the easy light and shadow: in "Exhaustion", Jen Sibao wears a striped sailor suit, giving the audience an elf-like profile face, with a kind of mischievous kindness. . In "Alpha City", the woman who is facing the camera pinches a cigarette, and the man says outside the painting, "Across nine thousand kilometers, it is here to light a cigarette." The same line was filmed by Wong Kar-wai. I don't know if it is a tribute or a preference for the same "infatuation at first sight".
Pull back "Alpha City" from Paris. "Alpha City" is certainly not a sci-fi in the typical sense. It feels like a new wave of technical attempts to "fictional future world" and a heterotopian aesthetic shaping, behind which are the inner worries of new wave artists. Godard himself called Alphaville "a fable on a realistic ground", and he used typical images of the times, such as exaggerated neon lights, jukeboxes, and computer consoles, to prove that it seemed to reside in the bumpy sixties. He also used some anti-humane settings to insinuate his concern for real politics, such as "urging you to commit suicide", which was "used in a certain city thirty years ago"-the person in charge of order advises "heresy", Using a pretending and kind way to drive people into the mouth of a tiger seems to be no different from today's situation. For example, those people in Alpha City who could not adapt and did not want to commit suicide had to be forcibly executed. It is of course weird to look at the value of people outside the city: no "adaptation period" is given, and one jumps directly to the step of life and death; the essence is unreasonable-you will have to die if you don't listen to me!
Truffaut, who was at the same time as Godard, put forward the "Theory of Film Authors", and from then on, he can use the creative sequence to explain the theme of film repetition. Godard is a Swiss-French dual nationality. He was born rich. At the age of eighteen he was immersed in the Paris film scene with a bunch of friends. Later, they became the pioneers of the Nouvelle Vague. Godard is undoubtedly the most prolific of this batch of pioneers (one of them?). At the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, "The Book of Images" was screened. The organizer invited Godard, and he tremblingly said, "Making a movie depends on my legs, hands and eyes." During the 2020 epidemic, Godard's live broadcast on ins triggered a global fan carnival. Anyway, it’s okay if you don’t understand the language. Grandpa Pimple’s green vest is still selling well on the orange software!
……Compared with the mass-production and model-based Hollywood film industry, the proposal of "film author theory" seems to echo the European humanistic tradition. But not at all. In a period of total heterogeneity, the return of "human beings" no longer carries the aura of the enlightenment period. Instead, it seems to be rebelling against the boring stylized world and sniping the cultural imagination of objects. The same goes for the people in "Alpha City." On the one hand, he is bound by himself, falling into the shackles he has woven: the male protagonist finally finds the scientist who made the Alpha 60, and wants to take him away, but he gets a categorical denial. On the one hand, he was numb and cruel under the supervision of the "super high god": in the swimming pool, awakened people shouted, "The essence of mankind is love and hate, courage, tenderness, tolerance and sacrifice... and everything else is You developed it blindly and ignorantly." The bystanders were unmoved and pressed the trigger.
As for the core of "Alpha City", the "Super High God" Alpha 60 comes from artificial creation, but its consciousness and judgment standard comes from a higher, "unbreakable" criterion-"It is not Alpha 60 itself or the creator of it." Scientists started this revolution. Most ordinary people are not worthy of the positions they occupy in the world." While bringing legitimacy to the act of "killing the anti-order", it also suspended the "culprit" hidden behind the guidelines. Alpha 60 is very interesting. It is the product of Logos' madness ("a logical tool in this destruction"), muttering a hypocritical highest morality ("I do this with the ultimate goodwill") , Flattering an absolutely optimistic futurism (accusing him of nostalgia for the past when interrogating the male protagonist, thinking that the future is what it should be), and having dual obligations and responsibilities to Alpha City ("hostile to the invaders, but pride dominates All abilities").
Alpha 60 holds a cyclical view of time, "Time is like an endlessly rotating circle, the descending arc is like the past, and the ascending arc is the future." I think of it here that the cycle is "non-linear", which secretly eliminates the connotation of "progress". Since the 16th century in Europe, time consciousness has gradually expanded along with the expansion of space. Time "progress" and space "widening" are equally important. A round of landscape...). No matter what kind of "time" it is, in the 20th century when it is fully developed, they can enter the market and buy and sell freely. The boundary between public and private time is no longer clear, and entering the market is like an infinite loop, consuming each other. The helpless declaration here has curtailed the momentum of forging ahead, and is also the best footnote to an era that has suffered from the ills of technological expansion and has fallen into self-doubt.
However, Godard still believes in love. In the film, the male protagonist teaches the female protagonist to say "conscience" and "love" by using Eluya's poetry. At the end, the female protagonist does not easily piece together "Je vous aime". The solemnity of the word). It's like his love for movies, and Godard's determination and expectation of human intelligence and nature.
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