Embodies the 70s Godard aesthetic of excessive stimulation not only because it employs it, but because that’s what it’s dealing with on the thematic level as well. Even in the bourgeois French home, the children watch TV, then do homework, then eat dinner—an itinerary with little room for deviation. The idea of overstimulation is similar: if we are being faced with an unending succession of stimuli, which will each naturally seem to build upon the prior given the simple fact of how these signals are interpreted, how can we deviate and watch/listen to something else.

By assaulting our senses and thoughts (is it possible to fully process such wordy musings given the speed at which they’re related to us?), Godard…

Não há mais imagens simples, apenas pessoas simples que serão forçadas a ficar quietas, como uma imagem. É assim que cada um de nós se torna mais numeroso no interior de sí próprio e insuficiente no exterior.

Pouco a pouco, nós vamos sendo substituídos pelas correntezas ininterruptas de imagens escravas umas das outras, cada uma no seu lugar, como cada um de nós no seu lugar na correnteza de acontecimentos sobre os quais perdemos todo o poder.

Práxis. Auto-crítica impiedosa do artista revolucionário.

Quando entramos em contato com uma imagem, nosso instinto é de tentar lê-la, analisando-a pelo caráter duvidoso da semiótica. Esse hábito infeccioso nos empobrece drasticamente com o que há de pior da cultura televisiva, afetando nosso intelecto…

Not to be performatively sanctimonious, but it's gross to have this rare footage of soon-to-die Palestinian revolutionaries, and to use it as mere grist for your postmodern despair. The movie self-flagellates on its manufacture and manipulative intent, such as when a summary "translation" is interrupted by a second narrator who rebuts the first summary for being too academic and then relays what the people in the footage are actually saying. This doesn't stop the filmmakers from, say, taking their footage of a guy making a long, mechanically-amplified speech that I must presume outlines a perspective on the war, and leaving it untranslated, again talking over it, satirically pontificating on the physical distance the audience has to keep from speakers, or…