1. Although Godard's film is not based on narrative, there is still a clear main line development in this film, that is, two young men Arthur and Franz, who are fascinated by American culture, plan to burglary, use The feelings of the girl Uldir who lived in the house were able to implement the original plan, but in the end Arthur, who was favored by Odil, was killed, and Franz and Odil continued to drive north to wander. Everything is so absurd, full of the director's mockery of capitalism and existential doubt and rebellion. 2. The film uses a lot of jump cuts, and even shoots directly off-axis. This sudden interruption allows the audience to jump out of the plot and is actually closer to the true essence of phenomenology. Life is so trivial and boring, and there is nothing to do in the modern world. People wandering on the streets lost their past pursuit of faith or truth, and turned to hope for money, but this pushed them into the abyss of no solution, making it even more impossible for people to communicate with each other. Cigarettes, cars, and pistols are all symbols of subjectivity. The characters in the film use these props to try to reconstruct subjectivity. They wander outside the "law". Always in a state of pursuit and confusion.
3. Merleau-Ponty's review of the overall perception model of the world represented by films, and his identification of the fit between the motion of film images and the inner feeling of life, had a subtle ideological influence on the later philosophicalization of French New Wave films. In Godard's film, Godard not only reflected Merleau-Ponty's philosophical quotations directly on the film screen, but also turned the film "picture into thought, into a mechanism capable of grasping thought". In "Outlaws", especially in the two scenes of dancing on the subway and in the restaurant, Godard contrasts the movement of the image outside the window with the stillness in the subway, and uses the method of sound and picture to keep playing By separating the unifying relationship between sound and picture, the narration sound can go beyond the space of the subway, and the accompaniment music when dancing also stops abruptly.
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