Word: aimlessness
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BRATTLE: Another episode from the New Wave's chronicle of that peculiarly post-war phenomenon, the Aimless Man, "Breathless" stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg as, respectively, a hip thug and his hapless American moll. The New Yorker found it "brilliant"; the Crimson, merely "worth seeing." Evenings...
...preoccupation of Jean-luc Godard and other young directors with aimlessness may be a symptom for sociologists to analyze rather than reviewers. It seems clear, though, that Michelle Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo), the aimless protagonist of Breatheless, is intriguing because audiences can simultaneously identify him and dismiss him as freak. The film contains little sting or criticism because Godard's semi-comic direction fosters an atmosphere of unreality, almost one of parody. Breathless is thus saved from the pseudo-philosophic qualities that the advertisers and critics have burdened it with. Godard need not and does not comment on Michelle...
...Aimless Man (look for him in Vitteloni, The Cousins, Shadows, l'Avventura, and La Dolce Vita is young (25 or 30, unemployed, i.e. graduate student, hack writer, skilled car theif, etc., handsome (Continental, plenty of hair, dissatisfied (you don't know quit why, and good with women (evidently. Every Aimless Man chain smokes, drives fast, and expresses a weakness for classical music...
...that this ordinarily mild-mannered, suburbia-chained father, who even admits that his swimming pool is "my status symbol," is able to punch so hard. Borne to fame in World War II on the shoulders of his famed G.I. cartoon characters, Willie and Joe, Mauldin seemed dashed and aimless once the smoke of war had cleared away. "My life has been backwards," he says. "Big success, retirement, and now I'm making an honest living." Starting a brand-new career three years ago at the Post-Dispatch, he has risen to the top of his profession, using...
...make brilliant use of Harvard College. As a group they are widely misunderstood, and often confused with cases of "academic suicide"--a phrase describing students who have rebelled against the system with no idea of what they wanted, and who, consequently, have simply frittered away their college years in aimless (in)activity...