Word: gratuitous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Director Godard obviously means that some people are monsters, but quite possibly the question requires an existentialist answer, too. The hero, though such ideas are far beyond his merely physical preoccupations, behaves like a personification of Gide's acte gratuit ("an action motivated by nothing . . . born of itself"), and his story can be seen as an extemporization on the existentialist tenet that life is just one damn thing after another, and death is the thing after that...
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