2 or 3 Things I know About Her - Jean Luc Godard - Coffee Scene

[silvanusslaughter]

perfect

[peymaania]

I recall one time I was so excited to be in Gay Paris, that I forgot to wipe the shit off my derrier. I felt so carefree, liberated, almost sublime, so very French.

[bumermerc]

wow, such beautiful filmmaking

[IckleTaz]

Simply beautiful. A coffee cup that seems to hold the world and all it's loves and limitations. Stunning.

[brainiacamour]

beautiful, but you cut it off one second before she says one of the most sublime lines in the film.

[sjdelsavio]

@brainiacamour my feelings exactly 

[greg5566]

Is the whole movie available online somewhere?

[SatounoKumo]

gaaahh its on the cinema around my area this week but i cant find anyone to go with :1

[greg5566]

@SatounoKumo How old are you? (I don't mean that to be an insulting question.) At some point in your movie-going life you're going to have to realize that everyone you know are losers and you have to see movies like this one on your own!

(If you're outgoing enough, try to make friends with all the other people at the theater whose friends are too lame to go also!)

[SatounoKumo]

@greg5566 i'm 18 and trying to deal with this right now :p

thanks for the tip but not many peers attend these screenings

well, i'll do my best because cult cinema is best enjoyed with people who appreciate it :)

[greg5566]

@SatounoKumo Are you Japanese? And are you in Japan? If you're in Japan, it would surely be easy to find some group of people obsessed with the same thing as you, right? You Japanese are obsessed with everything! (That's what I love about you! :) )

[SatounoKumo]

@greg5566 ahahahah no i am a greek obsessed with the japanese XD

and since i am greek it is not easy :p

[relyanddefy]

can someone pls explain to me what they see in godards dialogue/ philosophical ramblings that are all over his early works e.g Alphaville, this. none of it seems particularly beautiful, profound or resonant, just extremely long abstract sentences about seemingly nothing ???

[anemone9]

@relyanddefy

The meaning always changes, but in general Godard likes toying with the separation of sound and image. He often accomplishes this through the use of voiceovers or intertitles.

[anemone9]

@relyanddefy

Here, Godard is quoting Barthes on the concept of the death of the author. I'm not the best person to explain it, and I hope someone will add to this and correct me. But basically, because you speak a language, you can't say anything original. All the words you speak have already been spoken. At best, you can put them together in a way that's slightly new. Because we can only express ourselves through language, we are divided from others, but also brought together with them.

[achammer]

@anemone9 you don't just express yourself through language if anything u express yourself more though body language vocal tone what syllables u empisive and facial expressions

[realitymodel2]

@achammer no.

[anemone9]

@relyanddefy

Language divides each person from everyone else, because each person divides the world into "I" and "them." That is, because of language, each person sees herself as distinct from all other people. So each person sees herself as a subject, but is seen by all others as an object. So, how can we overcome the limitations of the structure language, of dividing the world into "I" and "them"? The answer is, the death of the author.

I'm sorry I can't explain it better. It's complicated!

[wilsonko]

nice shit

[mightynice1]

that's right. this scene enlightened me how brain works when it goes in deep thought.

the stir stream and the bubbles in the coffee cup are showing the movement of electric signals inside the brain. (even though i'm not a brain scientist.)

with the narration of philosophical lines by Godard himself makes it perfect.

man, this is most definitely one of the greatest and most beautiful scenes of all time.

JLG is God!.. or he was.

[Yihud]

OOOHHH MY GOD!!!

[BlogSnob]

Everything is in that little coffee cup.