JL Godard, You So Crazy

I really liked 2 or 3 Things I know About Her, but my feelings for it are pretty divided. For one thing, Jean Luc Godard interviews almost exactly like how the characters in this movie talk:



So there's that video if you guys want to watch it.

As much as I like the idea of people speaking their own thoughts as well as interacting with other characters, Juliette and her ennui/ her indifference really got on my nerves after awhile. I can understand it at the end of the day, when she realizes that she'll be doing the same thing over and over again until she dies, but in the middle it lags. I just want to slap her, really. It reminds me way too much of high school emo kids whining about the world at large.

In a larger sense, I felt like Godard was trying to convey how people are dissatisfied with lives in a post-industrial society, especially using examples like the new high rises and the Vietnam War to emphasize the characters' expressed thoughts about the drudgery in their lives. There' s a general sensation of disconnection with people, especially when seen in one of the restaurant scenes, when the conversations are mostly cut off, showing one person for the majority of the conversation. Especially when Juliette's husband is speaking to that one woman, who again shows another woman expressing ennui, then showing complete frustration when someone talks to her.

But that's a main risk when having characters really speak honestly is that the audience will not fully embrace them. Their philosophical thoughts spoken out loud are interesting, although rather disconnected as a whole... but that's also how they occur, in a rather disconnected surprising circumstance.