Jean-Luc
Godard’s movie “Film Socialism”(2010) keenly observes the individual
lives against larger picture of the changing society. The message it
conveys is that the complexities in human character cannot be measured
by man made laws. In a transnational milieu , the film alters the
clarity, narration and exposition, and questions, where meaning can be
formed.In typical Godardian fashion the film manages to be both strident
and elusive, argumentative and opaque. The film begins on a cruise
ship, where passengers indulge in gambling and frenzied dancing in the
night club. Brilliant high definition cinematography is mixed with the
cell phone style visual treatment of shots to create a stunning collage
of imagery and sound. The middle part of the film moves from the sea to a
provincial gas station to examine the domestic politics of the family
that runs it. The final part revisits the cruise ship’s journey around
the Mediterranean, intercut with historic footage of the region, a
murky montage of clips from key films in Godard’s extensive world of
the cinema. It is his most difficult and troubling film and offers us a
different temporal and spatial-experience. The background score of
noises and the myriad colours make the metaworld of film more alluring
.Godard is a detached observer in the film , yet did not detract from
his vision.
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