1. Other directors use similar languages to tell different stories, Godard is trying new vocabulary and grammar itself.
2. How the film becomes itself, not the audio-visual slave of literature. Just as literature is to be itself, it must not be a slave to stories, history, ideas, politics, but to create new experiences, new structures and new facts.
3. So Godard said not to make political films, but to make films with politics in mind. The film is about Hitler, Richelieu, and about the concept of the state from its birth to omnipotence, but it is not a political film, not a political film like "The Post".
4. "Quelle différence il ya entre une idée et une métaphore?" What is the difference between an idea and a metaphor? Very Wittgenstein question. New ideas are new metaphors, metaphors about the African continent, the French Revolution brought new metaphors about what Europe is and what Europeans are. Plato's metaphor of the real, the primitive tribe's forest metaphor of the world.
5. Rodin's "thinker" is the thinking while defecation, the moment connecting the filth and the sublime, the foundation of equality. Dao is drowning in shit, very Zhuangzi. Equality begins with untouchable pariahs and lepers excluded from civilization.
6. When the train came into the station, I wanted to cry when Bei Qi was on it.
7. Laurent Schwarz - Dirac curve: δ(x) = 0 if x≠0, δ(x) = +∞ if x = 0; int δ(x) = 1. Infinity and zero, two great inventions like Sex and death. Literary and artistic youths like to seek inspiration in mathematical language. Back then, I also had too many fantasies outside of mathematics about the Weierstrass function, which is continuous but not steerable everywhere, and the Dirichlet function, which is discontinuous but Lebesgue integrable.
8. "Don't paint what we see, because there is nothing in our eyes. And don't paint what we can't see, because we can only paint what we see. Paint what we don't see."
9. " On the prime number problem, Riemann reaches a point where every point becomes music". All numbers can be expressed as the product of prime numbers, and maybe even as the sum of two prime numbers. As early Wittgenstein thought, the world is built on true and false propositions as numbers are built on prime numbers, so that we all have a solid foundation.
10. But behind the world, below the language, there is still unspeakable love and pain.
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