The 83-year-old Godard did not appear in Cannes. Four unknown or even forgotten actors in "Goodbye Language" stayed at the photo spot for a few minutes, unexpectedly telling everyone that they don’t know what they are doing. The experimental film was "scripted", and then left in a hurry, becoming the first competition film at the festival without a press conference.
But even if there is a press conference, even if the great god arrives, what kind of questions can media reporters ask? "What on earth do you want to say?" Such a question will almost always be bounced back by the old man with his best nonsense puns, just like his TV documentary "Contemporary Filmmaker" 50 years ago. As I have done before. It was Annecy, a small city in southeastern France in 1963. When asked about the relationship with his already estranged family, the newly-known director replied: "The Godards are like the family of foxes (Il ya des Godards comme il ya des renards) "Like the annoying games that Godard used to play at home when he was a child, he used word games to change the essence of the problem. "Godard" (Godard) and "renard" (fox) are homophonic, and the interviewer and the audience can't get any certainty from it. Positive and negative meaning.
Shakespeare's escape words, or puns, are Godard's consistent attitude towards language, and it is also the manifesto-like sound that is frequently presented in his iconic jumper shots. As the theme of the new film, "Goodbye Language", although it dissolves all semantics in the extremely abstract experiment, it also continues the inexplicable game of escape words.
In the scene of the game, he grew up in Nyon, a small town on the shore of Lake Geneva (Lake Geneva) in the Swiss Canton of Vaud, where Godard grew up. He, whose nationality has been attributed to Switzerland in the publication, also returned to the lake to spend his old age. The puzzles of the game, in Russian writer Solzhenitsyn and literary investigation experiments, legal fraud facts and legal denial of their own violent attributes, Democratic Congo’s capital Kinshasa and the Congo River, the two great inventions of Infinity and Zero, etc. In a few indoor and lakeside performances, the two pairs of men and women raised many unanswerable questions such as "Do you want a child or a dog?", "Is it possible to create an African concept?"
Married women and single men, fall in love, quarrel, fight, dogs wander between town and countryside, the seasons change, men and women meet again, dogs seem to be one of them and can talk, the second movie At the beginning, everything went round and round, from the human being through multiple layers of metaphors, to the end of the barking of dogs and the crying of babies-this is the "introduction of the plot" given by Godard. After shooting such a "script", he used luxurious costumes to invite the British poet Byron, who wrote "The Prisoner of Chillon" near his residence in 1816, "A pleasant discussion about the revolution, friends Our good opportunity", English also played a pun game clumsy in French.
He embraces but destroys the 3D technology of the new century. This is not the first time Godard has used 3D to shoot a movie. In 2012, he worked with Greenaway and Pella to shoot the collection "3X3D" for Guimarães, a small city in northern Portugal, the European capital of culture. Abstract visual symbols, as well as old film material and prose reading, express the three disasters brought about by digital dictatorship. This time in "Goodbye Language", 3D has become a destructive force. Soon after the beginning, he simply and rudely wrote the word "2D" on a flat surface on a black screen, and will use two Canon 5D MarkⅡ. The created "3D" appeared in the middle of the huge theater. In the following time, the bows, dog noses, and human faces that were drawn to the front during the deformation were all completed with these two "invincible rabbits". He arbitrarily reversed the picture, filled the scene with completely distorted colors, and even used the 3D images of the left and right eyes to stimulate the audience's senses extremely unpleasantly.
The compliment that once applied to "Avatar", "If you don't watch 3D, you don't watch it", it also applies to Godard's experimental movie. Scorched eyes, deafening, and extremely discordant fragments. These words on Twitter should be criticized for other movies. When the movie gods are here, they have become praiseworthy words for worship. "In his usual dictatorship, the master The use of 3D media once again liberated the film image, and also made the film dead", some commentary imitated Godard's ambiguous pun statement.
The "Goodbye Language" written by this great artist in his later years may allow us to make some horizontal comparisons in various fields of art. For example, in the field of music, John Zorn, who uses experimental noise to subvert traditional auditory aesthetics and even science; in the field of painting, for example, the Spanish genius Picasso who "pursed the realm of painting for a 7-year-old child at the age of 70". So, if Godard is rejuvenating and splicing video materials as plasticine at random, what kind of response attitude will the audience show? Regardless of pretending to be cult or anti-intellectual criticism, it is just a paragraph of letters that can be eliminated in the master's escape game.
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