Edited sentence: "), and observes the forces preparing the apocalypse."Sympathy for the Devil," exactly resembles "1 + 1" except that in the latter part of the last reel a complete version of the song "Sympathy for the Devil," which the Rolling Stones have been rehearsing and recording in cuts throughout the film, is played on the soundtrack.)—records interviews ("The Occident is fighting communism because the Occident is Faustian.In his 1970 review, New York Times critic Roger Greenspun explains the following:.It collects evidence and examines texts — including a by now famous pornographic political novel read on the sound track ("'You're my kind of girl, Pepita', said Pope Paul as he lay down on the grass.The Rolling Stones' repeated assays upon "Sympathy for the Devil" in their recording studio, the rote repetitions of passages and slogans passed back and forth among black-power revolutionaries in their river-side automobile junkyard, the mere adding up of questions and answers in the interview sequences, juxtaposing words to make new combinations (such as "So-Viet Cong") and finding new words in old combinations (such as SDS in "Sight and Sound"; LOVE in "All About Eve")—all suggest a concern with ways of putting things together, to the film seems determined to be the prospective text of some ultimate, infinitely complex collectivism.The other parts of the film are usually considered to be Godard at his worst, full of tedious, comical, cartoonish philosophy and artless didacticism.Whatever its intentions, "1 + 1" contemplates rather than advocates revolution.[...] For "1 + 1" is a heavily didactic, even instructional, film, like much recent Godard, and it builds upon repetition, or, if you will, addition