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Quick! What do Sessions 6 and 20 have in common?
Well, other than if you add them together you get the total number of Sessions for Cowboy Bebop (and one less than Spike's age), and that they both tease the possibility of Spike not coming back, Sessions 6 and 20 also both share the titles of Jean-Luc Godard films. Sympathy of the Devil is a documentary about the turbulence of the sixties (set to the Rolling Stones' song of the same title) , while Pierrot Le Fou tells the story of a bored businessman who falls in love with a woman who has ties to the mafia (Gee, all that sounds kinda familiar, eh ...). But don't take my word for it. Here's what The Internet Movie Database and NetFlix.com have to say:
"Godard's documentation of late 1960's western counter-culture, examining the Black Panthers, referring to works by LeRoi Jones and Eldridge Cleaver. Other notable subjects are the role of the media, the mediated image, A growing technocratic society, Womens Liberation, the May revolt in France and the power of language. Cutting between 3 major scenes, including the Rolling Stones in the studio, the film is visually intercut with Eve Democracy (Wiazemsky) using graffiti which amalgamates organisations, corporations and ideologies. Godard also examines the role of the revolutionary within western culture. Although he believes western culture needs to be destroyed, it can only be done so by the rejection of intellectualisation. "There is only one way to be an intellectual revolutionary, and that is to give up being an intellectual"
"Hailed as Jean-Luc Godard's most popular film since Breathless, Pierrot le Fou captures the '60s French cool that only Godard could create. After attending a mindless party full of shallow chatter, Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) feels his mundane world is closing in on him. Desperately wanting to escape, he finds himself in the arms of another woman. Unaware that Marianna's (Anna Karina) dark past still haunts her, they take off to the picturesque South of France. What proceeds is a roller coaster ride filled of passion, desperation and regret as these two lovers meet their final fate."
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