Word: intercuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modern times Griffith moves to the political intrigues of Catherine de Medici, to religious conflicts in Christ's Palestine, and to the grand movements of the political civilization of Babylon. He calls the injustices of each social system "intolerance." Consequently, the film's climax-with the four stories intercut-lacks any thematic synthesis. Griffith turns largely to the human interests in his four endings...
GODARD then offers and rejects some solutions. After a period of wandering slaughter in which the political basis of their situation ("From the French Revolution to weekends with De Gaulle") is made explicit, the couple encounters two third world revolutionaries. The ensuing lecture on guerrilla warfare is intercut with shots of a wild intellectual who had earlier attacked them for being so bourgeois. The point becomes yet clearer when they are captured by the Liberation Front of Seineet-Oise, a bunch of kids freaked out by bourgeois society. Like the heroes of La Chinoise, they are naive revolutionaries and senseless...
...narrative is more pattern than plot. In a train compartment, a student named Hans (Erik Wedersoe) eyes a blonde dancer (Harriet Andersson) and dreams of his fiancee and his mistress. Suddenly, scenes of the train's pistons pounding are intercut. A title flashes "Could anything be more erotic than a train?" Hans and the dancer have a quick assignation in the W.C. He goes to see his fiancee, who has turned into a whore. She leaves for America with a man whom Hans has recently cuckolded. In a hectic burlesque of Schnitzler's La Ronde, every character...
...takes off back to the city in his MG. At film's end, the two have paid a joint visit to a delousing clinic and have effected a kind of Pirandellian reconciliation, applying less to their roles in the movie than to their extracurricular relationship. Intercut with this dreary dramaturgy are endless man-on-the-street interviews conducted by Lena ("Do you think that Swedish society has a class system?" "Do you belong to the labor movement?") and lots of shots of Sjöman making the film. But the political issues have little meaning or relevance for American...
...monolith has previously guided man to major evolutionary and technological progression, it leads Bowman now into a realm of perception man cannot conceive, an experience unbearable for him to endure while simultaneously marking a new level in his progress. The frozen shots intercut with the light sequences show, debatably, Bowman's horror in terms of perception and physical ordeal, and his physical death: the last of many multi-colored solarized close-ups of his eye appears entirely flesh-colored and, if we are justified in creating a color metaphor, the eye is totally wasted, almost subsumed into a pallid flesh...