Although at first glance it may seem that this film is about class struggle, this is not true at all. The film is actually the viewer's struggle against boredom, nervous breakdown and existential crisis, while trying to convince themselves that it was worth watching an hour and a half of Godard's deconstructed, yet somehow mystically didactic and uninteresting propaganda film. Nearly everything's bad about Everything's good. Characters? Lifelikeness? A coherent story? Dialogues? Let's not even dream of such things. If "failure" is an artistic self-value, then we have really found a gold mine here: Godard breaks the most basic rules of filmmaking, makes his characters talk to the camera, shows nothing for 10 minutes, makes narration of the lack of events in a monotone voice devoid of the will to live, and I could go on and on. If the goal was to alienate the viewer from the social/political message it wanted to convey, it succeeded. Of course, there are excellent technical achievements here, the "dollhouse-like" side view shots of the factory building is excellent, and the shopping center scene is also lavish, but even with these, I don't feel that it would have been worthwhile to waste the creative genius in such an unworthy way. It's an experimental film, yes. We took note of that. Personally, I don't have a problem with this, just like I don't have a problem with art films, slow pace, European film language, or the atmosphere of older movies. In fact, these are things that I really like. But we should also note that not all experiments end in a eureka moment. And not all experiments blow up in the scientist's face. There is an experiment where the chemicals do not actively interact with each other and the reaction does not occur. This was one such case. I would be intellectually dishonest if I were to rate this largely unbearable and unenjoyable work higher, either out of respect for Godard or out of a fondness for old movies.
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