Words are one thing, reality another thing: between them, NO THING.
The sound of Norman Mailer, who in his short-lived role as Lear introduces the viewer to the central epistemological dilemma bequeathed to Godard from William Shakespeare Senior. Between them, in other words, lies the enigmatic thought of cinema as epitomized by Godard’s “way of having two images, far away from each other, one dark and one sunny.”
EXCERPT FROM: MURRAY, Timothy. (2008). Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.