They are not innocent people. The aim of using terrible pictures, he went on, is to make the viewer unable to look at them any more. You don't even look, unless it's your cousin or your mother. But even if it's the mother of your girlfriend, it's okay. We made images in the movies, when we began, in order to remember.
TV is made to forget.
We see Sarajevo, okay, we forget in two seconds. At the same moment that we are looking, we forget. It has no meaning at all, even what we are thinking has no meaning. And this is the way we want it, in fact. The questions his film raises, in other words, are legitimate, but Godard finds himself unable to provide any serious response.