this be a polarising film . people either love it or despise it and it seem . me and i despise it . the film come from the same context a lindsay anderson oh lucky man and but while that be a masterpiece and this be just horrible . both film take kafka unfinished novel america and for their inspiration and general ideal . america be a surreal story of a youth travel through the country . kafka use the this character a a pure observer and one who do not change over the course of the journey ( although the book be about 300 page and still seem only a quarter finish and so we will never know ) . allow kafka to concentrate and comment on the absurd or surreal situation and surroundings . oh lucky man follow this same template to show britain through the eye of malcolm mcdowell and weekend do the same for france . both film be also hugely brechtian and use various trick and technique to point up the fact that this be not real and this be confabulation etc . but the difference come where oh lucky man use the constructed film to convey the absurdity of life and the class system and weekend use the constructed film to bludgeon u to death with ideological polemic . because godard go far than anderson in his brechtian principle and we end up with two principle character in which we have no investment and at all . be force to spend 90 minute with them and yet we couldn not care less about them . deliberately so . but in do this and godard leave u with a film that be entirely about his own message and which and in the first half of the film be provide through relentless and overbear symbolism and and in the second half through a series of long speech direct to camera . combine with unpleasant and unnecessary scene such a the really horrible pig slaying and far bad than any of the off camera violence of the car crash . the end result be like listen to a student political apparatchik drone on and on and on about his view whilst repeatedly kick you in the head so that you get the message . the problem with brecht be and if you alienate the audience too much and then you have alienate them from what you be try to convey . which always seem self evident to me . the part that really stick in the craw for this movie though and be the contrast between the extremely sexually explicit verbal description of the threesome at the start and the off screen comical rape in the middle and which and even if it could be view a allegorical and completely destroy the film faith in itself and it character and what little of it exist in the first place . it so french with a capital f and it hurt . watch oh lucky man instead . that be a work of genius . weekend be a work of pretension . two star and and only for the traffic jam scene and the piano scene and which be just hint at genius and although they actually make the end result more frustrating and unsatisfying a without them and this be a bad film by the bad most pretentious director in the world and with them and well it obvious that this be a damn good technical director make the most intellectually pretentious film in the world . somehow that far bad .