As a long time political junkie and film major, your recent string of postings on the
greatest tracking shots has been a joy for me.
I just wanted to recommend to you the traffic jam tracking shot in Jean-Luc
Godard's "Weekend" Godard's last
film before he descended into ten years of marxist "film-essays."
The most striking part of these long tracking shots is how the keep an integrated
physical reality without compromising space for the sake of the cut. The cut is a
kind of artifice by its very nature, and our breath can be taken away by these long
shots so easily simply because of how magical our own physical reality seems
when reflected back to us. It is a kind of religious feeling to be awed by a reflection
of the intact physical world, with only the subjectivity of the moving camera.
