Challenging Godard's theory of "the truth of the movie 24 times a second". It seems to be the new DIRECT CINEMA of the 1960s, but to a greater extent, it shifted the subject to the reality of the essential record of the movie.
David's anger when he realizes the dichotomy between his audio-visual self and his real self is a sign of the hysteria that strips the symbol out of the human being. The movie gives an image, but this image is always at a distance from the self, and this distance is widened in the authenticity of the movie, and everything tends to become a staged picture rather than the real.
It is the severance of one's own image from oneself that creates this feeling of being deceived; we are deceived by Godard and we are deceived by the movie.
Especially in the part of the movie where he follows his girlfriend and then has her take a picture of himself, when the image of himself holding the camera is shown to the audience, this gives a sense of severance, this is not reality, this is a media processed reality, which is fundamentally different from reality.
This is a revolutionary exploration in the matrix of the nature of cinema, which seems to demystify the so innocent movie that Godard talks about, and in the end leaves a mess behind!
David's anger when he realizes the dichotomy between his audio-visual self and his real self is a sign of the hysteria that strips the symbol out of the human being. The movie gives an image, but this image is always at a distance from the self, and this distance is widened in the authenticity of the movie, and everything tends to become a staged picture rather than the real.
It is the severance of one's own image from oneself that creates this feeling of being deceived; we are deceived by Godard and we are deceived by the movie.
Especially in the part of the movie where he follows his girlfriend and then has her take a picture of himself, when the image of himself holding the camera is shown to the audience, this gives a sense of severance, this is not reality, this is a media processed reality, which is fundamentally different from reality.
This is a revolutionary exploration in the matrix of the nature of cinema, which seems to demystify the so innocent movie that Godard talks about, and in the end leaves a mess behind!