Le Mepris

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.