Weekend, directed by Jean-Luc Godard is a comedy that tells the story of Roland and Corinne, a married couple. While each of them are having affairs, they plot to kill each other. With Roland and Corinne driving to see Corinne’s dying father in hopes of claiming his inheritance, the film escalates quickly to violent car accidents, one of which they were in. The camera shows bloody bodies and damaged cars. Godard uses fake violence done to people and real violence done to animals. This could be used to show his realization of the dominance that humans have acquired over the past generations.
Jean-Luc Godard’s film making design can be seen to contrast traditional Hollywood film making. Weekend contains no real plot and lacks a depth in character, which goes against the typical Hollywood films which are known to invite the audience into the films focus. I feel that Godard’s goal was to intentionally go against the social norm with his use of unrealistic themes, disoriented music, lack of goal oriented characters, and not so great acting.
The audience is somewhat alienated by Jean-Luc Godard’s film method in Weekend. He does this to show his artistic ability in other areas through the use of his odd music and acting techniques. Usually in a Hollywood film, the music should relate to the different scenes and emotions of the character but Godard goes against this and throws in irrelevant and chaotic sounds to get a different point across. This can be seen in the scene when Corinne is talking about her sexual experiences on the beach. For such a deep scene, the music should be more lax and low but in the film the sound is chaotic and loud, sometimes even overriding Corinne’s voice.