The pinnacle of Godard's art!
This film is a very ironic reflection on Marxism, socialism. It ruthlessly satirized all kinds of socialism that existed in French society at that time... and also satirized China's cultural big xx...
In the movie, we can see that the young French Marxists didn't really understand what revolution was and what Marxism was. They were just thinking about it. They are confused, childish and fanatical. They not only rebelled against the French government, but also against the French Communist Party. To be precise, they rebelled against everything they could see, and only expressed their idealistic adoration to the far east, the invisible China. Godard himself in the film expressed a strong suspicion of such fanaticism and childishness.
Godard's suspicion of China is also reflected in this film. China's strength is not enough to threaten Soviet revisionism and American imperialism, just as the Communist group in the film has no strength to influence French politics. But Godard is still a red and professional Marxist, and he still expresses that he is moved and inspired by the Chinese people's movement. His dissatisfaction came from too much thinking. Although he was uncertain about how to carry out the socialist movement, his socialist position was firm.
The ideal socialism in Godard's mind should be stronger than the United States and as strong as China at the time. In the face of the real Communist Party, all reactionaries must be paper tigers, and this sentence must be an objective existence rather than a subjective wish. But in today's view, Chairman Mao's words are more like a subjective wish and a cry to inspire revolutionaries. Capitalism is so powerful that we have to adopt an idealistic contempt to have the confidence to fight it. Otherwise we would fall into Godard-like suspicion, dissolving the passion and power of the revolution in internal friction.
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