This film is based on
Italian novel. It is considered to be the most popular film made by Jean- Luc
Godard. Le Mepris is about a man tries to find
out why his wife no longer loves him, and a man struggles with his job as a screenwriter on an American film of Homer‘s Odyssey. The film pertains
to the romantic relationship of Camille (Bridgette Bardot) and Paul (Michel
Piccoli). The couple consists of Paul, a screenwriter and his beautiful wife
Camille, who plays secretary. Camille suddenly falls out of love with her
husband, perhaps provoked by the sense that Paul is willing to let a rich
arrogant jackass of a movie producer have his way with her in order to advance
his career.
As I
watched the movie along, I became more interested, even though I didn’t watched
it full. The ending was so complicated because Camille leaves Paul just for
money even she loves Paul so much. She chose Prokosch over Paul because she believes
that Prokosch can give her more money than Paul. At the end, Camille and the man was
accidentally hit the truck that caused them death. We need to watch “Contempt” because it’s one
of the few movies of the anxious past half-century that seems equally at home
with history and modernity. It might once have looked conventional, but its
audacity.