From the perspective of 2009, the moment of radical politics which this film enshrines has retreated into a form of historical camp. I think that much of what Godard did here suffers from having itself been commodified and now looks merely like self-indulgent artifice. Which is maybe what people didn’t want to recognise at the time. The hectoring Maoist tone, the faux-Socratic questioning are just callow and ugly. Only the female figures seem to have a connection to a reality beyond the frame and thereby achieve depth. I found this remark in Irigaray which seems pertinent: " the discourse of truth, the discourse of “de-monstration” cannot incorporate the sexual relation within the economy of its logic." (Cosi Fan Tutti)
2 Or 3 Things I know About Her over 2 years ago
From the perspective of 2009, the moment of radical politics which this film enshrines has retreated into a form of historical camp. I think that much of what Godard did here suffers from having itself been commodified and now looks merely like self-indulgent artifice. Which is maybe what people didn’t want to recognise at the time. The hectoring Maoist tone, the faux-Socratic questioning are just callow and ugly. Only the female figures seem to have a connection to a reality beyond the frame and thereby achieve depth. I found this remark in Irigaray which seems pertinent: " the discourse of truth, the discourse of “de-monstration” cannot incorporate the sexual relation within the economy of its logic." (Cosi Fan Tutti)
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