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Garnett 2022-03-25 09:01:20
This film is Godard's relatively calm thinking on love. It uses the structure of the play within the play to reflect the different understandings of love between men and women. Women use feelings to experience and express love, while men pay more attention to specific things themselves. The constant conversation is never a conflict over a single point. At the same time, it is translated as the translation result of the American director by a thousand miles to compare this kind of absurdity and estrangement, and at the same time, the story of "The Odyssey" is used to imply the occurrence of tragedy until the end. The female protagonist despised and abandoned the unfeeling male protagonist who ran away from an American director with a completely different language and died in a car accident. It was a Ulysses-like revenge with Godard’s strong subjective contempt, and it was like the “murder” repeatedly quoted in the film. It can't solve the problem", and threw the different love conflicts between men and women to every audience - what do you think?
Extended Reading
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Camille Javal: [voice-over] I've noticed the more we doubt, the more we cling to a false lucidity, in hope of rationalizing what feelings have made murky.
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Paul Javal: You don't want to make love?
Camille Javal: Listen to the jerk.
Paul Javal: Is that a mocking smile or a tender smile?
Camille Javal: A tender smile.
Paul Javal: So, answer me!
Camille Javal: If it were true, I'd tell you. A woman can always find an excuse not to make love. But you're really a jerk.
Paul Javal: Vulgar language doesn't suit you.
Camille Javal: It doesn't suit me? Listen to this: Asshole. Cunt. Shit. Christ almighty. Craphole. Son of a bitch. Goddamn. So, still think it doesn't suit me?