The question of whether or not the film or its characters are actually good Marxists is not only not interesting, but also misguided, since we’re bound to get nowhere with such relationships of subordination: it is the coordination that we must look at instead. Godard doesn’t film “Marxists” or things whose meaning would be Marxism. He makes cinema with Marxism [...] The strength of the film is that it brings together cinema and Marxism by treating those two formulas as two different conceptions of art in general, and hence also of Marxist cinema. -- Jacques Rancière
看完之后有太多感触. 女主角身上想要挣脱生养自己群体的愿望, 信仰上的挣扎, 宗教与世俗的矛盾, 甚至对音乐的喜爱, 都真切地speak to me. Religion can be immensely beautiful, but it can also harm people in unimaginable ways. At the end of the day, it’s solely between us and God.