Weekend

 I watched "Weekend," the Jean-Luc Godard movie, a while ago but it's on again and I realized I never watched it. It is genuinely provocative - that seems to be the entire point. While never boring, it is strange, and for a movie with tons of gore, weirdly abstract in a lot of ways. It's about a terrible horrible bourgeois couple and their misadventures, but don't worry, this is a movie where they eat the rich. It might be too much for a lot of people, maybe even me, but it's certainly compelling and different. There's a lot of talking and lecturing by people who are certainly being sent up by Godard, and it could be dull if the imagery and filmmaking wasn't so insane. The plot is bananas. I don't know. It's unique and very Godard. It is funny that the characters often refer to the fact that they're in a film. It is smart about what it's doing - by depicting horrible situations and reminding you they're fictional, it really provokes you into thinking about our relationship to film and fiction. The (allegedly) gen Z Tumblr kids who have strong feelings that if a movie shows someone doing something bad, then the movie itself is immoral, would not like this at all but are probably the ones who should have to watch it.