Eighty-four-year-old French new wave film master Godard has released a new film, and uses the current fashionable 3D technology, entitled "Farewell to Language" (Adieu au Langage). When I first saw it in Berkeley, I was slightly clouded by the continuous impact of complex sound and images on the senses and intellect; when I saw it in Chicago, I had a deeper understanding of the richness of its images, politics and metaphors. For some movies, every time you watch them, you will have richer viewing experience and thinking, especially Godard's movies. He is always experimenting with the expressive possibilities of new film technologies, from widescreen in the 1960s to video in the 1980s, from digital in the 1990s to 3D in the new century, constantly updating people's media perception, and is based on the use of A refreshing experiment with Hollywood-like techniques, creating a completely different style. For example, the 3D in "Farewell to Language" is by no means an industrial model for Hollywood commercial films to create stereoscopic illusion of equal distances, but sometimes 2D, sometimes 3D, sometimes 2.5D or even 3.1D, space can be distorted, and images seen by the left and right eyes may be different, resulting in a similar overprint effect. The sound also echoes the image, sometimes 2D (mono) and sometimes 3D (multi-channel). The same goes for colors, sometimes black and white, sometimes colorful, sometimes exaggerated and intense video colors. The viewer is constantly reminded that everything is artificially constructed through the mechanism of the camera, not just mechanical reproduction or reproduction of the illusory reality enclosed on the screen.
"Farewell to Language" has a "de-anthropocentric" perspective. One of the protagonists is his dog Roxy. Together with nature, flowers, lakes, woods, dogs listen to silent language. Godard said that humans are blinded by consciousness and cannot understand the world like animals do. Therefore, it is necessary to "say goodbye to language", but it is obviously impossible. The narration is full of language and jokes about Russia: "Russian cigars are healthier than American ones because there is almost no tobacco in them." Revolution and anti-war are common messages in Godard's films. In the film he mentions Mao Zedong and Guevara, and the film begins and ends with protest songs by Italian workers in the 1960s. Naughty as always Coexist with the industrial model of filmmaking.
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