One day eight years ago, I woke up in a nap and remembered the dream I had just had. In the dream, a woman stood behind a man in a trench coat. Fingertips projected on the man's face, and they remained silent. After waking up, I drew this scene, ran to the next room and told my mother excitedly that I dreamed of a scene that could be made into a movie. Eight years ago, I didn’t expect this scene to be reproduced in Godard’s movie. It was a coincidence. When I was thirteen, I dreamed of a 20-year-old movie screen of my favorite director, the sixteenth in an hour. minute.
From exhaustion to contact Godard, at first I only felt a vague affection, and then saw the outlaw, the madman Pierrot, as he pleased, and completely fell into his pioneering world. Alpha City is more experimental than his other movies. It tells a sci-fi suspenseful story, but the core is still Godard's philosophy and poetry. I agree with this statement. Alpha City is the one created by Godard and the audience. joke. He doesn't need to be understood, his movie is just a game of his personal philosophy and light and shadow. Perhaps only people who stand at the same aesthetic level as Godard can truly understand Alpha City. We are just spectators.
Godard said that poetry turns darkness into light. He believes that conscience arises naturally in humans. In his world, words such as "autumn light" and "gentle" represent human nature, while the residents of Alpha City are called Controlled by false reason and logic, without poetry, and without humanity. Godard’s philosophy is very close to the poetry represented by the European philosophy. To me, it is a charming and empty existence. I have not yet come into contact with any poetic habitation of Heidegger, Sartre’s existence and time, and Foucault’s ideology. In a superficial view, the common denominator between European philosophy and Godard-style movies is that people in the world have an almost admirable fascination with them. When anyone approaches them even a little bit, they only feel the unprecedented fear, partly People are frightened by this fear, and then they spread remarks saying that they are lunatics and fake masters who seek fame. Some people find aesthetic empathy from them, and then become their researchers and followers.
In fact, I want to say that Godard's film is the closest platonic "perfect rationality" to film. No director treats filming as a game of light and shadow like him. The flickering of light in Alpha City movies, the negative effects of the picture, the avant-garde jump and montage, the strong emotional expression of the actors looking directly at the camera, make Godard not People like our world. A film that can be called art is a film like Godard that has originality beyond time and space, has a philosophical and poetic language, and has unique skills that he cannot have.
However, for a director who is ahead of the world like Godard, his end is still love. If not, the last shot of the film will not be his favorite Anna Karina saying "Je vous aime" every word, I love you.
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