There are countless themes of computer-controlled people, but they are generally more entertaining than artistic. People are oppressed by things, the concept of human nature is blurred with the gradual demise of words, the iron curtain of centralized control shrouds the city, and where is the future of mankind? What Godard's films lack most is depth, and he uses a detective-fiction-esque mode to conceive the film, with the vulgar and fearless detective characters and typical anti-hero character setups. Eluard's poetry collection "The City of Pain", the originator of surreal poetry, becomes another embodiment of the whole film. The lens of the master photographer Raoul is cold and restrained, and the use of dark and sad lighting turns the whole brightly lit Paris into a metaphysical "city of pain".
At the end of the movie, the hero and heroine fled by car after destroying the computer rule of Alva City. When the heroine Anna murmured the closing words: "I...you...love...I love you", a kind of dark feeling The haze situation was swept away, which is probably also a rare bright ending in Godard's films that uses the proposition of love to rescue the human nature in distress.
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