What is Godard's film "China Girl" about?

Hehe, how did you come up with this movie?

English: China girl.

Chinese: Chinese

Alias: China.

Question: 1967

Directed by Jean-Luc Gueudar

Special Award of the Jury of the 32nd Venice International Film Festival

Director Godard is obsessed with preaching the Mao Zedong Doctrine, and his keen satire has angered the well-behaved critics. Anne wiazemsky, Godard's wife at that time, plays a philosophy student in the film. She sympathizes with four Maoist members on campus. Their goals are always interfered by external factors, such as posters, little red books, dogmatic carols and so on. And they always seem to be confused about the true meaning of their political beliefs. Nor can we give any ideological support to practical activities.

Godard is obviously on the students' side everywhere, although he tries to be close to the traditional style of revolutionaries when describing their fanaticism.

Introduction:

One day in the second half of the sixties. Some part of Paris. Veronica, the daughter of a banker, held a meeting of the "Marxism-Leninism * * *" branch in the house borrowed by her girlfriend who went on holiday with her parents. There are a lot of small red books piled up in the room, and some handwritten quotations from Mao Zedong are prominently hung on the wall. In the radio broadcast from Beijing, Villanika announced the formal establishment of the branch, and named it Adenis-Alavia, in memory of the novelist of the same name, Bohr Ni Zan, who was expelled from the party. Members of this branch include young actress Giraume, maid Ivona, painter kirilov and college student Henry. Vilani card to the branch's task is to "fight on two fronts". Just then, Henry, who had been absent, came in. His face was covered with blood, and he was injured while arguing with French party member about China's "Cultural Revolution". This gives Veronica more reason to declare the correctness of her "line", that is, not only not with France, but also as its main enemy.

For a long time, the film did not develop the usual plot, but let each character take turns to appear in a special shot and present himself in front of the camera lens.

First, the actor Giraume came on stage. He said, "Now I'll explain to you what a new play is. China students who distributed pamphlets on the streets of Moscow were naturally stopped. The next day, a press conference was held at the Embassy of China. They shouted to bourgeois reporters with bandages on their heads,' Look, this is what revisionists have done to us!' They happily met with reporters from Life magazine and Paris Evening News, and then untied the bandage. It turns out that their heads and faces are clean and there are no traces of being beaten. The reporters were furious after being fooled, but they didn't understand that this was a new play. "

Subtitles were printed on the screen: "What is a new drama? That is the experiment. " Giraume went on to say, "The real drama is thinking about reality. I want to say it is similar to Brecht (Brecht's photo appears on the screen) or Shakespeare (Shakespeare's portrait appears on the screen). Yes, yes, Mao's thoughts may not be helpful: what is needed anyway is sincerity and fanaticism! " Giraume is not talking at this time, but shouting at the camera. Then he shouted: "You will think that I make faces like a clown because they are filming me;" Not at all. I am sincere because the camera is in front of me. " At this time, photographer Cotard and his camera appeared on the screen, and the voice of director Godard came "Stop!" The words lens number appear again.

Ivona, the girl who works as a maid in this house, plays like this. She talked directly to the camera about the countryside where she was born and why she came to the city to make a living. Because she didn't earn enough wages, she had to be a prostitute in her spare time, saying that she was a living proof of the contradictions in capitalist society.

Then "China girl" vilani Ka herself appeared. She claimed that she had discovered Marxism-Leninism, just like Alice in Carol's fairy tale opened the curtain of fairyland. "If I have enough courage, I will blow up the University of Paris, the Louvre and the French Theatre ... Yes, I am well aware that I am out of touch with the working class, but there is nothing I can do, because I come from a banker's family."

At this time, a subtitle appeared on the screen for the first time, which was repeated in the course of the film: "The imperialists are still alive!"

Ivona continued to give a speech in front of her three audiences: "The revolutionaries taught us to study the situation from objective reality, not from subjective wishes." In order to illustrate her words, a pantomime with the theme of Vietnam War was performed: Guillaume wore glasses, and the flags of the United States, the Soviet Union, China, France and Britain replaced the glasses; Ivona changed into a woman's costume and acted like she was eating rice in a bowl. Several toy planes began to hover around her. Ivona painted his face with red paint and shot with a toy automatic rifle; Giraume read the lines about "two kinds of productism" in front of the camera: one is the decadent productism of Moscow revisionism, and the other is the productism of Vietnam. American imperialism is dressed as a man wearing a tiger mask. He is talking to the Kremlin on a red phone. In this play, the play ends with an interview with Wilanyi Card. She declared that she had completely despaired of France and wanted to find her ideal in Beijing.

The radio station played the Internationale, and the members of the branch who slept on the floor woke up in the broadcast of Radio Beijing. They sang this song and did exercises on the balcony. Then, another member of this organization, painter kirilov, came out to make his own declaration. In fact, he didn't create any paintings, but just repeated the experiment of a painter in Hamburg, hanging banners covered with various stains everywhere to protest against "suppressing the false freedom of modernist art". His political creed is, "If Marxism-Leninism exists, it means that everything can be allowed."

Kirilov chalked down the names of some politicians, poets and artists on the blackboard and then erased them one by one. From Sartre to Coca-Cola, Voltaire, Sophocles, Dumas, Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Racine, Rabiche and others, only the name of Morten Bertolt Andersen Brecht was left. Someone outside the camera read Mao Zedong's quotation: "We should fight on two fronts in the field of literature and art." Finally, kirilov hysterically shouted: "A revolutionary without a bomb is not a revolutionary! Give me the bomb! Although we are small today, there will be many tomorrow! "

At night, in soft music full of romantic feelings, Villanyi told Guillaume, who tried to woo her, that she could not have sex with him because love would hinder her revolutionary activities. The subtitle "Imperialists are still alive" appeared on the screen. The whole bow and arrow shot at the portrait of public enemies. Henry with glasses said a few words trying to defend the law and was immediately expelled from the branch: "Go to Moscow, revisionist!" " "Villanka swearing French leaders, but also from time to time scold Pompidou, Garotti, Mitterrand and Wilson. She declared that the only way to fight was terror.

Villanyi Ka sat in the train carriage and had a long talk with a leader of the Catholic trade union and a reporter from Dangdai magazine against the background of the scenery that flew by the window. Vilani card lists all his enemies, including war makers, bureaucrats, entrepreneurs and reactionary intellectuals. She rejoiced at the current closure of China University, and thought that the French should do the same, and everything should be "started from scratch". Vilani thought it was time to throw bombs at universities, and quoted the experience of Russian nihilists in the last century, saying that throwing bombs finally threw out the 19 17 revolution and the great October. She told the speaker that it was time to take action. The Soviet Culture Minister Xiao Kolov came to Paris at the invitation of the French government. He should be killed.

In order to bear the responsibility of killing Xiao Kolov, the "branch" discussion decided that kirilov would sacrifice himself. Kirilov wrote his last words, explaining that he killed the Soviet Minister of Culture in order to prevent him from speaking at the inaugural meeting of the new department of Nantes University, and also to eliminate the cultural indifference that the government plunged French universities into by terrorist actions. When Villanika and Guillaume read this note, a gunshot came from the next room, and kirilov committed suicide. Giraume carefully took the gun out of her hand and wrapped it in a cloth so as not to erase his fingerprints.

Vilani Kaxie and Guillaume drove to the hotel where the Soviet delegation stayed. She left Giraume in the car, ran into the hotel lobby, asked the doorman's room number and disappeared into an aisle on the second floor. Then, she appeared in the big glass window, waved to Giraume and ran to the other side of the hotel. When she appeared again, she raised her fist and made a victory gesture and walked out of the hotel. After getting on the bus, she explained to Giraume that at first she misread the room number and took "23" as "32". Finally, she successfully completed the task and solved the Soviet minister.

In the house where the "branch" has left, the owners have come back from other places, removed the slogan "All roads lead to Beijing" from the wall and began to clean the room. Vilani said the last sentence to the audience outside the painting: "... this is only the first step of the long March."