"Film Socialisme" (Directed by Jean Luc Godard), at TIFF 2010

Godard reminds us that cinema is images and sound

that the history of cinema can be other

as well as the history of mankind can be seen from other perspectives

Godard reminds us of the words of the critical idealist

Godard is a revolutionary cynic

Godard makes a film that follows the defeat in struggle

only to continue its existence

Godard is a master

years of creation through images and sound

years of thinking in images and sound

Godard shows us images and sounds

Sounds that are murky for some

unintelligible to others, 

difficult for all

Words and phrases

simple images, 

textures of simple images, 

simple people in simple images 

weaving a structure based on sadness, 

disappointment at the ideals of socialism, 

the ideals of the words people and freedom,

the struggles of those who do not speak of patriotism or nationality

or democracy

the horrors of what happened on the chosen path

and what will not be forgotten

A set of fantasy, a set of stupidity and cheap jewelry;

a ship

containing a few disillusioned and outdated passengers

and bringing them to a journey through history.

His film is the eternal sadness of what has been lost

and the illusion lost in the waters of the Mediterranean,

in its wars and its diasporas that have crossed it

Godard reminds us that cinema has changed

and now is part of something that not all of us fought for it.

His film, this film, is a film that doesn't recognize,

denigrating to some and not praising anyone. 

His film bothers anyone who speaks the language of those who have won 

The heirs of the victorious don't want to stay longer watching it and tend to go away 

not because of being against it but because they are unable to understand it 

Because they do not understand!

because it is not possible to understand a world that does not have the codes to understand others

In the beginning this world we now call Cinema was one of the Cinemas

and today it is all ... it seems everything.

It is already in our mind, we edit our thoughts with the way it is edited.

This is a closure only read for who lives outside.

Godard makes this evident to a few ones

most are lost when watching

irritated

they don't enjoy neither the words

nor poetry

nor the images, beautiful images of our time

They can not see the thought of the other,

nor their life reflecting in a mirror that have never before seen.

No one enjoys the last will of an old man

disappointed

continuing to work in his Art

satirizing with ironies that no one can understand.

Godard is a language about to die!

As that Socialism he intends to speak of in his film,

as the pure ideals of some living,

beyond the mistakes of social ideologies in the past.

Godard is one of those last speakers of that endangered language

who speaks it only not to forget it

and it is no longer understood;

with a mythology of gods that no one worships anymore;

and is proud, excessively proud.

Because that language,

he won't teach to speak

to anyone.

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"Film Socialisme"

Directed by Jean Luc Godard

Screening at Toronto International Film Festival 2010 (TIFF 2010)
Bell Lightbox 2

September 19th, 2010