Les Herbes Folles by Alain Resnais is such an intriguing movie. I liked it a lot but don’t think I understood much of it, which in itself is a main element of the movie- can you like something or someone without understanding? Is it possible to love without knowing the person? Or to understand without knowing the parameters?

I think that the movie is much too complicated for me to be able to pinpoint the possible answers Resnais gives, but the title and the first subject of the camera- the grass which grows against all reason and logical expectation from the asphalt road, might mean that one option is that everything is possible and that the sky is the limit. (Literally in the movie, considering the end.)

Human nature is wild, even if we set rules as to what is proper to do. (i.e. you shouldn’t call or write to me because we don’t know each other).

These rules of propriety like the asphalt will not eradicate what is naturally inside us, the crazy grass, but on the contrary, they encourage it. There is a feeling throughout the movie that propriety, society’s rules and expectations are such a load, that both heroes are ready to burst and collapse into death or folly at any time.

Could anyone explain the last ending with the little girl in bed?