Week 4, but here’s the list for LD https://boxd.it/1362yQuoting DFA1979 (view post)
Week 4, but here’s the list for LD https://boxd.it/1362yQuoting DFA1979 (view post)
I only have one Criterion on Laser:Quoting DFA1979 (view post)
If you're only gonna have one, that's a pretty awesome one to have.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
I didnt even have a player hooked up when I bought it. I couldn't pass it up.Quoting megladon8 (view post)
Turns out Jen had already seen Breathless, so we ended up watching Every Man For Himself for Godard week.
Will post thoughts tomorrow...
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Ok. Thanks!Quoting Zac Efron (view post)
Blog!
And it's happened once again
I'll turn to a friend
Someone that understands
And sees through the master plan
But everybody's gone
And I've been here for too long
To face this on my own
Well, I guess this is growing up
Hell yeah. I only own it on a SE DVD from Double Dragon.Quoting Skitch (view post)
Blog!
And it's happened once again
I'll turn to a friend
Someone that understands
And sees through the master plan
But everybody's gone
And I've been here for too long
To face this on my own
Well, I guess this is growing up
Every Man for Himself - Jean Luc Godard, 1980
Sex can be beautiful, but it can also be very ugly. We mostly get the latter in this film from Godard, which he called his "second first film", as it was his second foray into commercial filmmaking.
The lives of three people intrersect through the ugliness of abuse, divorce and prostitution. Paul and Denise are a couple who have been dating off and on since Paul's divorce, and are perhaps even more toxic than the relationship Paul had with his wife (and mother of his child). Isabelle is a prostitute who Paul sees once in the film, then runs into later through coincidence.
Paul is one of the most reprehensible characters I've seen in some time. From the opening frames he is an arrogant and deeply unhappy asshole. But when he and a friend begin openly discussing wanting to molest their own 11 year old daughters, I could barely look at him for the rest of the film.
Child molestation and rape is something that is approached several times in the film, but to what end I really don't know. Every man in the film is some kind of sexual predator of deviant - either a closeted child molester, or a physical abuser. And if I recall correctly, every father in the film either makes sexual advances towards his own daughter, or voices that he has fantasized about her.
It made me deeply uncomfortable at times.
Also interesting to note that the prostitutes in the film are arguably the most noble and wholesome characters in the film.
I have now seen three Godard films (this, Contempt, and Band of Outsiders), and feel I can firmly sya Godard is not for me.
However, I will say I disliked this one the least.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
By my count, this was Godard's third "second first film" after Bande Ã* part (Godard reportedly told the film's backers he was making a sequel to À bout de souffle) and Numéro deux, and there may be other "second first films" that I've missed.Quoting megladon8 (view post)
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
I wish I could get more out of his films.
He occupies the same space as Michael Haneke for me. I don't find myself feeling the things I think he wants me to feel while watching his films.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
If you felt deeply uncomfortable watching Sauve qui peut (la vie), I think it's safe to say you felt what Godard wanted you to feel. The film isn't exactly fun to watch because it's meant to shake the viewer up rather than comforting them (shock and disgust are characteristic effects of modernist art in general). The film's form and style intentionally make comprehension difficult in order to defamiliarize its subject matter and thereby, in Brecht's words, "free socially conditioned phenomena from that stamp of familiarity which protects them against our grasp." In other words, the point of the film in so many words is that capitalism is disgusting but everybody's gotten used to it, and everything Godard does stylistically is designed to make us feel how disgusting capitalism is by making us feel as if we were encountering it for the first time.Quoting megladon8 (view post)
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
But see, I didn't connect any of the events in the film with any kind of anti-capitalism message.
It felt much more interpersonal, and about sex and relationships.
Perhaps the fault is on me, the viewer, for not picking up on this.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
I haven't seen the film in about five years, but the way I'm remembering it, the film is about what capitalism does to sex and relationships (hence, the emphasis on prostitution and other forms of domination: e.g., child abuse and domestic violence).Quoting megladon8 (view post)
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
Wouldn't guess in a million years Every Man for Himself would be the most popular movie for Godard week.
I don't see that connection at all. While it has been 5 years since you saw it, do you remember any specific scenes, situations, or lines of dialogue that communicated that as a theme?
That reads like something the director said about the film, and people just went with it.
The closest I can see is that we have women selling themselves for money, thereby cheapening the act of love making by making it a financial transaction. But even that seems thin as a reading.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Limited to what is on Criterion Channel.Quoting Idioteque Stalker (view post)
In all honesty we started with 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, and had to turn it off after about 20 minutes. Neither of us had any interest in going further.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
I was thinking particularly of the proto-human centipede scene.Quoting megladon8 (view post)
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
Again, I don't see the connection between that and the film having an overall anti-capitalism message.Quoting baby doll (view post)
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
The logic of money--and commercial filmmaking--is one of domination: I pay you and you do what I tell you to do (on camera). During the centipede scene, the rich guy says something to the effect of, "We have image. Now let's add sound," implicitly linking the cinematic apparatus to prostitution. Likewise, Paul's relationships are all based on him trying to control women, either through money (prostitution) or physical force (domestic violence and rape). In other words, the film implies that healthy relationships between men and women are impossible under capitalism.Quoting megladon8 (view post)
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
It could very well be that I couldn't connect with the material, due to having been on the receiving end of sexual abuse for a good chunk of 2019.
And no, it wasn't Jen. For those who didn't know, we split up for a long while during that year.
I found the film very icky, which as you said it was intended to be. But maybe I had a bit of a mental block in seeing past the surface.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Damn dude, sorry to hear that.
Quoting Skitch (view post)
Thanks.
But I honestly wasn't saying that to garner sympathy. Just talking about the film and how / why I might not have connected with it the way I was supposed to.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Holy revelation Meg.
Are you guys back together at this point?
Yep. Have been for over a year.Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Well that's good at least. Still I had no idea, either.
Blog!
And it's happened once again
I'll turn to a friend
Someone that understands
And sees through the master plan
But everybody's gone
And I've been here for too long
To face this on my own
Well, I guess this is growing up