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90 | Vuk Uskoković www.jrfm.eu 2018, 4/2, 83–113 sell-out phoniness spilling out like vomit from corporate offices, grocery stores, coffee shops, concert venues, billboards, ads and TV, itself the reason why he has heartily refused to appear on TV all throughout his lifetime, but there is also a perpetual wonder whether prostitution as giving oneself wholly to another, albeit promiscuously, has also been a way of liberating the spirits of some of his favorite female protagonists. Take, for example, the ambiguous 360 degree panning shot preceding the final shot of 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle – does it prove that the protagonist, Juliette Janson, has finally become the world, the way she had dreamt of, or does it demonstrate a sense of being more lost than ever in this inhumane, mechanical, soulless world of skyscrapers and sickening staginess? But that is the sign of the greatness of one’s work – it cannot be pre- planned and it will keep the quarreling critics busy for ages to come.19 Relying on one’s intuitive skills in creation is, in a way, similar to handing Na- ture a piece of the paintbrush with which the images are drawn and making sure the co-creational process involving oneself and the world begins to resem- ble Escher’s painting of two hands, each drawing the other, confounding the viewer in her every attempt to decipher who is drawing whom.20 This approach 19 Histoire(s) du cinéma: Le Contrôle de l’univers (Jean-Luc Godard, FR/CH 1998), 00:15:20. 20 Uskoković 2011; Uskoković 2015. Fig. 4: Histoire(s) du cinéma: Le Contrôle de l’univers (Jean-Luc Godard, FR/CH 1998). “So it’s a braless blond followed by a detective scared of heights who will prove that this is all just cinema, which means it’s child’s play”,19 says Godard in his reflection on Hitchcock’s Vertigo (US 1958). The question is if we can make every science and art as playful, simple, intuitive, and unpretentious as the child’s play that Godard’s vision of filmmaking and quite possibly every other creative process was and liberate our minds from the stifling chains of adulterated extravagance thereby.