Chapter 12 Put down the camera, pick up the gun

The VCD version of "FIRST NAME: CARMEN" was sold as a tertiary film, and the name was changed to "The Attic Collection".Two weeks after listing, saw DDVD. French film master Jean-Luc Godard's 1983 work, won the Venice Golden Lion Award and the Jury Award.Godard's films are really difficult to write. Godard, some people say that the history of film should be divided into "before Godard" and "after Godard", because his appearance not only brought out a whole generation of French film new wave with "Exhaustion", but also his works are all related to the film language. Have a revolutionary impact. After 1968, when he stumbled into Maoist theory, he was no longer interested in movies, and he proposed to make movies politically. He has been giving lectures in Canada since the late 1970s, and also produced TV films. The 1983 "Famous Carmen" should be said to be his first return to the big screen.

The main line of the film obviously has something to do with Merimee and Bizet. It tells the story of the contemporary French female thief Carmen who seduces the policeman Joseph during the robbery. The two start a love affair, which ends in tragedy. It is difficult to read Godard's films. His films are full of destruction and innovation of traditional film techniques, and so is this film.Appearing almost parallel to the main line is the person playing "Beethoven's Ninth String Quartet", as well as the shot of the sea and the sky appearing a dozen times.I'm a layman in music, so I don't understand.But judging from the development of the film, there must be a certain point of integration between the music and the plot.The waves should be easier to understand. These empty shots not only symbolize the psychological changes of the heroine, but also bear the author Godard's illustration of the theme of desire.

It is worth mentioning that when Godard returned to the film industry, he still chose his favorite crime film genre, and played the role of Carmen's uncle himself-a film director who is a bit crazy and commented on social phenomena from time to time!Although it still maintains the exuberant critical spirit of the past, it is different from his mid-term works that downplay the plot and make more political comments, reflecting his ambivalence in the face of today's world. "Carmen" is not a perfect masterpiece, but its creativity and awareness are still ahead of many film directors of its generation.

Godard’s best films are generally recognized as his works before 1968. His avant-garde, subversive, and prophetic features have repeatedly proved to the world that he is always the most avant-garde in the history of world cinema. Now some directors often say that they are avant-garde. I believe that none of them have seen Godard well. This version is printed on the disc as the Liaoning version, 1 hour and 25 minutes, divided into 8 sections, and the 9th section is the AC-3 test.English subtitles cannot be hidden, but Chinese subtitles can be hidden.It is recommended to only watch the English subtitles, because there are many translation errors in the Chinese subtitles, such as "I am not doing well" translated into "I am not doing well", the picture is slightly better than the VCD, but it is still highly recommended for people who like art movie friends.

Note: The title is a line from the film, I thought it was interesting, so I used it.