This movie is continuously jumping in time flashing forward and backwards in time intercutting between the main characters life after and before the school shooting letting you see what it is like to be in her head taking a simple shot of her dipping her head in water and then it switching to her son doing the same action or cutting from her sanding the red paint off of her house to her bouncing her infant son who wont stop…

One specific time I noticed Godard "break the rules of film" was when they were driving in the back of the taxi and Michel was in the back seat directing the taxi diver as well as having a conversation with Patricia. The sound was continuos and fluent as if no time was passing but the the frequent cuts in the film was making it show that they had been traveling for longer then the conversation being spoken. This was used…

One scene where I saw collisions was in the stair case scene. The mother is the main subject, you see her carrying her trampled son and it switches to a crowd shot of all the people frantically running down the stairs. In this crowd shot there are many people who have fallen and are being stopped on in the furry. This collision in contrasting shots is used to make the viewer more connected to the the individuals being terrorized in…