"The movie is like a battlefield, love, hate, action, violent death, summed up in one word, emotion." This is a line of Godard in "Pierro the Madman". The film is poetry of emotion, a hodgepodge of ideas. Through the story line of a pair of lovers eloping, the film expresses the director's diversified values through chaotic dialogue and lens splicing. It is a rare film form in the 1960s and has become a classic masterpiece of the new wave of French cinema.
The most prominent in the film are the dialogues and confessions of the hero and heroine. Focusing on the three aspects of identity, emotion and freedom, it shows the social status of France and Italy at that time. The director showed that at that time, people's sense of helplessness about their own identity and belonging, people's hypocrisy and selfishness about their emotions, and the contradiction between people's pursuit of freedom and self-restraint.
My interpretation of the scene of "Fire on Water" is the contradiction of people's cognition of self-identity. The most repeated dialogue between the hero and heroine in the whole film is "Pierro" and "My name is Ferdinand". But in fact, at the end of the film, we don't know what the hero's name is. Marianne's line "I know who you are, but you don't know yourself" is even more straightforward. The repeated dialogues bring dark humor to the audience, but also an externalization of the man's self-perceived confusion. Judging from the clothes of women, after wearing camouflage caps and military caps, Marianne will do behaviors that break the bottom line of the law - rob cars and kill people. We don't know anything about the heroine's profession, so the design that confuses the audience is more humorous and ironic and has a unique charm. Women were the first to put forward the value concept of "orderly life", and in subsequent lines, "what should I do" and "this eternal mystery is life" appeared repeatedly, and they were the first to break the laws of life and break the boundaries of life. Yes, it is also Marianne, whose contradictions between words and actions also illustrate the subject of ambiguous identity.
Judging from the storyline of the film, most people would consider this a love movie. From the whole film, the love between men and women is selfish. The cheating of men is obvious. In the song and dance segment of the heroine at the beginning, the lyrics mainly express the superficiality of the promise, and the closeness of the skin is the weight of love, which directly clarifies the director's view of love. For the superficial promise, the director used a metaphorical lens to connect the fox's lens with Marianne's promise of "I will never leave you" to produce a so-called "romantic" effect. The director put the scene of the hero and heroine making love in the sand. The two are naked and covered by sand. They are exposed to the sun. They are the true emotions that are integrated with nature. There is no hypocrisy or selfishness. , is the natural thing of desire.
Some people think that this is a road movie. This inevitably brings people to the theme of "freedom". At the beginning of the film, the male protagonists are all wearing striped clothes, which have a sense of restraint. Until the crazy behavior of the two people appeared, the two seemed to be free. On the straight road, they could also rush to the lake, grab the car and throw the car, and just go with the flow. In fact, they are still bound to each other. After the hero and heroine burned down the crime scene, a thick black fog shrouded the camera, but no matter how deep the two of them went, they couldn't get out of the frame, like a huge cage, and there was no possibility of escape in the face of the bewildering reality. . Even though the bad behavior of the two people was not punished by the law, there is a line that reveals the true meaning of it, "the police let us destroy ourselves", is this the freedom they seek? In the end, the death of the protagonists, with a moving lens, shooting the calm sea, maybe death, became the last relief for the two.
The director used a lot of novel shooting techniques and a unique perspective. The alienation effect, the form of interviews, the narration in the style of your words and my words, mural transitions, chapter-style narration, diary interspersed... All of them were the bold use of film techniques in that era, a hodgepodge. The chaotic, absurd and bizarre feeling created by the director for the audience is the externalization of people's psychological emotions in that era, and it was deliberately created by the director. On the contrary, it is such a "madman's diary" that is incomprehensible to the world, which has made Godard's film career and the entire film history. He turned the film into the main battlefield of self-consciousness, the ideological weapon of the self.
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