The Married Woman

What did Godard contribute to postmodernism and, in this case, cultural studies? The subjectivity of women in the post-industrial consumer age shaped against the backdrop of advertising discourses; the relationship with one's own body acquired not only through contact with a lover but increasingly more from the pages of women's magazines. The purely personal dilemma of a woman trying to find certainty in emotions and love (which man is the right one) merges with the dilemma of a woman who generally does not know what she wants. The choice between men and the impossibility of choice - orientation in the world and the impossibility of one's own immediate (our character loves the present) and certain path. Expression: an intimate speech composed of a mixture of fragments, not allowing or offering certainty of will; the intimacy of a solitary mental life not providing a definite meaning. Result: indecision, passivity, eternal touches and words not offering resolution. However, unlike in later films, the female character is portrayed in this film ambiguously, perhaps more in a positive light - albeit slowly unconsciously submitting to passivity, in which the will to succeed must not be her own, but someone else's, nevertheless resisting in her own way in her dilemma and doubts about "fate" and "the world". /// In this film, Godard brilliantly interrupts fiction with a distinct documentary style or rather the ethnology of Western contemporary life = media, advertising, framing of certain scenes, dialogue/interview. (12/08/2015)