Breathless- Greg Weinstein

The directors of the French new wave attacked the standard cinematic elements that people have come to know from films in ways such as the storytelling and the acting that was employed. For instance, with Godard's movie Breathless the movie does not take the traditional steps to reach it's inevitable, but unforeseen conclusion as at the beginning of the movie we are placed in this man's life without knowing anything about him, and soon find out he is a criminal as he shoots a policeman for seemingly pulling him over for speeding. Right away the audience is jarred at their seats as they have no idea who their main character is, and they now hate him. This begins to slowly change throughout the film, as he gives you no reason to like him, but seemingly by the end you are on his side as the man and woman do not ride off to Italy to live happily ever after, but instead she turns him in and he is gunned down in the streets. And I believe this could only be transferred to the audience by the unknown actor who probably has a little of his character in him. This is a guy who kills, cheats, steals, and I mean if you really look at him he is one of the worst human beings ever put on screen with seemingly no moral ground to stand on until he meets the woman and the narrative and the man come together to play off what they would have you believe will be the happy ending, but the audience get's the justice they need, but might not want anymore.