Although I am not sure I would consider it my favorite film we have watched this semester, I did really enjoy Godard’s film. I really liked that it had such a natural feel to it. This natural feel is probably due to the fact that he improved rather than staged the film. I feel like an improved film would be much more genuine simply because you can develop it as you go and you are not set to one specific path. The main character, Julitette really fascinated me and almost depressed me. When people picture their life from a young age, noone imagines that they will grow up to become a part time prostitute housewife and I cannot imagine what that would do to a person’s sense of self worth. She just becomes completely cold and indifferent to the world as a sort of coping mechanism and this indifference begins to seep into all aspects of her life. A technique employed in the film that I really enjoyed was that of the whispering voice over. Godard’s philosophies on language and life as he becomes the “I” mentioned in the title. These opinions and philosophies greatly contrast the cold indifference of Juliette. I like the film because it is the first film in a while that has elicited any sort of strong emotion from me in the form of my sympathy for Juliette.
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