Here and Elsewhere

*Almost everyone in this movie is dead
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A vague and complicated system

You may have picked up on this from my other reviews but if you’re a “democratic socialist” or a “common sense socialist” I hate you

Godard dissects the “we” in international struggle… he’s asking how western narratives (predominant and alternative alike) define and neuter western radical movements and asserts that cinema is a conduit of this weakening as it creates a false sense of connectivity, where one French student’s choice can be sequenced to feel like Palestinian necessity and vice versa… he sorta comes to this conclusion that cinema is a detached insider, the information it can present is novel and sometimes jarring but it—obv—isn’t mentally and physically experienced in the way that getting your home carpet bombed is, and that relationship reveals a deep discrepancy in the conditions through which struggle is occurring (and how information/stakes/priorities/mediums move, interact, and are processed within those divergent conditions), where western radicals fight for agency while third world insurgents are fighting for similar agency AND against colonialism that is in part imposed by those westerners fighting for agency!

Godard was trying to synthesize Debord and Mao and I applaud him for trying and choosing Palestine as a subject, the keystone of global revolutionary change… he basically ends up inventing (or, more appropriately, revealing) split screen attention wars by the end of it… he recontextualizes revolutionary struggle through the lens of mass media, shows how notions of mass recognition have changed for Fatah and other orgs with the advent of the television (also revealing who the doer and who the consumer is)

My roommate hates Arabs and kept trying to distract me with mundane/non-time-sensitive tasks every time the Arabic was too loud

*Almost everyone in this movie is dead
*
A vague and complicated system

You may have picked up on this from my other reviews but if you’re a “democratic socialist” or a “common sense socialist” I hate you

Godard dissects the “we” in international struggle… he’s asking how western narratives (predominant and alternative alike) define and neuter western radical movements and asserts that cinema is a conduit of this weakening as it creates a false sense of connectivity, where one French student’s choice can be sequenced to feel like Palestinian necessity and vice versa… he sorta comes to this conclusion that cinema is a detached insider, the information it can present is novel and sometimes jarring but it—obv—isn’t mentally and physically experienced in the way that getting your home carpet bombed is, and that relationship reveals a deep discrepancy in the conditions through which struggle is occurring (and how information/stakes/priorities/mediums move, interact, and are processed within those divergent conditions), where western radicals fight for agency while third world insurgents are fighting for similar agency AND against colonialism that is in part imposed by those westerners fighting for agency!

Godard was trying to synthesize Debord and Mao and I applaud him for trying and choosing Palestine as a subject, the keystone of global revolutionary change… he basically ends up inventing (or, more appropriately, revealing) split screen attention wars by the end of it… he recontextualizes revolutionary struggle through the lens of mass media, shows how notions of mass recognition have changed for Fatah and other orgs with the advent of the television (also revealing who the doer and who the consumer is)

My roommate hates Arabs and kept trying to distract me with mundane/non-time-sensitive tasks every time the Arabic was too loud

55 min de gamberge je demande rien de plus

55 min de gamberge je demande rien de plus

Révolution jusqu’à la victoire par le peuple, pour le peuple

Free Palestine🇵🇸

Révolution jusqu’à la victoire par le peuple, pour le peuple

Free Palestine🇵🇸

i took media, language, and culture course this semester and i think this movie is the perfect text/topic to talk about in that course because in media, language, and culture we talk a loooootttt about how media constructs and influences people's understanding of culture and politics, it's just exactly what this movie is about!!

i took media, language, and culture course this semester and i think this movie is the perfect text/topic to talk about in that course because in media, language, and culture we talk a loooootttt about how media constructs and influences people's understanding of culture and politics, it's just exactly what this movie is about!!

I am being spoken to, and too ashamed to answer back.

Every singular day I am beyond disgusted with myself that I am not able to provide any sort of reprieve to the Palestinian people. You'll go to any protest near you, donate all you can spare, educate yourself and others, but, for what end? The struggle seems eternal, every step a steady march of meaninglessness.

Godard opted to make his contribution in the fashion of a film. A film where he'd ask the viewer to discuss with him their autonomy, and the role of his medium.

The lens of the camera is only as impartial as the man filming. The statements of the newscaster are only as objective as the studio funding him. The top dollar has already long infiltrated the human mind.

Ultimately, everything in the machine of capital is purposed to subdue the individual. Godard is more than cognizant of his role in this facade. The death of Jusqu'à la victoire bore cynicism and despair in the maestro. The human race has been made pliant and subservient. Especially in this present, we are shown the truth more than enough, yet much too content in seeking other stimuli to ignore it. How long must we learn from the past before reaching out for the ever so promised better future?

Until victory, until every oppressor is dead and buried, we will struggle. See the truth in all things.

I am being spoken to, and too ashamed to answer back.

Every singular day I am beyond disgusted with myself that I am not able to provide any sort of reprieve to the Palestinian people. You'll go to any protest near you, donate all you can spare, educate yourself and others, but, for what end? The struggle seems eternal, every step a steady march of meaninglessness.

Godard opted to make his contribution in the fashion of a film. A film where he'd ask the viewer to discuss with him their autonomy, and the role of his medium.

The lens of the camera is only as impartial as the man filming. The statements of the newscaster are only as objective as the studio funding him. The top dollar has already long infiltrated the human mind.

Ultimately, everything in the machine of capital is purposed to subdue the individual. Godard is more than cognizant of his role in this facade. The death of Jusqu'à la victoire bore cynicism and despair in the maestro. The human race has been made pliant and subservient. Especially in this present, we are shown the truth more than enough, yet much too content in seeking other stimuli to ignore it. How long must we learn from the past before reaching out for the ever so promised better future?

Until victory, until every oppressor is dead and buried, we will struggle. See the truth in all things.