"Les Carabiniers"

The characters in this film show cartoon like qualities. Everything down to their names is animated and ironic. Ulysses, Michel Angelo, Venus and Cleopatre are not great historical figures or goddesses they are in fact idiots. Ulysses and Michel Angelo are hoaxed into going to war for their country. They are promised the great treasures of the world and truly believe they can obtain them. Venus and Cleopatre beg them to go to war so they can bare gifts when they return. When they are in war they are completely animistic because they believe that everything is there for the taking. They were told that in war you can steal, commit arson, murder in the cold blood, rape and demoralize woman etc. One of the character's promised treasures was a Maserati. They show him at a car dealership not understanding that you need money in order to purchase the car. Naturally he carelessly starts to rob people in order to obtain the un obtainable amount of money it takes to purchase a Maserati. The other character was shown at a movie theatre. The film being played showed an attractive lady bathing, you could see his excitement grow. He did not know that the lady was not real and he tried to kiss her through the screen. He ended up falling through the screen with a comical dumbfounded look on his face.

This was on obvious anti-war film, but also may be an attack on volunteer soldiers. Or the country depicted could have easily represented Nazi Germany during World War II. They brainwashed their soldiers to full fill their goal of world domination. This is exactly what the country in the film was doing with naive Ulysses and Michel Angelo. Godard again leaves the doors open, and the viewer can decide for themselves what the vision was supposed to represent.