Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Single: Rebel (2023)
Composition: Sakito
Lyrics: Sakito
Track no: 2
Hey guys! Today I bring you "Pierrot Le Fou" and this one is quiet special since it's based off the movie with the same name made by Jean-Luc Godard in 1965. We're doing a deep dive today so hold on tight!
Obvious spoilers ahead!
Firstly, a quick summary of the plot. Ferdinand Griffon is an unhappily married man who's grown tired of his boring, bourgeois life. He seeks a greater purpose in life and decides to run away with his ex, Marianne Renoir, leaving his wife and children behind. Coming into Marianne's apartment and finding a corpse, Ferdinand realizes that Marianne is being chased by OAS gangsters and this sets of a chain of events where they go on a crime spree, constantly chased by gangsters and police until they end up settling down at the French Riviera. Their relationship becomes strained however, as Ferdinand spends his days philosophizing, reading and writing a diary while Marianne—more grounded and impulsive—wants to escape the boredom they've ended up in and live freely.
After another series of events involving the gangsters, Marianne ends up betraying Ferdinand and runs off with Fred (whom she'd previously referred to as her brother) and this leads to a tragic ending where Ferdinand chases them down, shoots them dead and then decides to paint his face blue, wrap dynamite around his head and blow himself up.
During the whole movie, Marianne keeps calling Ferdinand "Pierrot" but what is a Pierrot exactly? The character Pierrot was born in an Italian theathrical edition and is depicted as a sad clown with a white face, often wearing white clothes with black buttons. The character himself is a hopeless romantic—naive, dreamy and a misfit struggling to find his place in the world but never really feeling like he belongs anywhere. He's very passive and suffers beautifully, even as things fall apart right before his eyes. This of course applies perfectly to Ferdinand who also feels like he has no place in the world and instead spouts philosophy, poetry and irony but never really finds any meaning. He sees himself as deep while in reality he has no substance—he's just sad and lost, chasing after romance in a doomed adventure that ultimately leads to both his and his love's demise.
Now, the way in which Sakito has incorporated Godard's narrative style of the movie into the lyrics is a thing of beauty. Godard's narrative style is fast-paced and often shifting between characters without a breath and this is exactly what Sakito does here as well. At first it does seem like Marianne is talking but then from "A childlike dreamer..." it's suddenly the Pierrot himself talking and then we go back to Marianne again beginning with "Our line of fate is short" which she herself sings in the movie.
Also, some direct references to the movie! Throughout the lyrics you really feel the discontent between both the characters, especially from Marianne's side. She herself says this in the movie:
"You speak to me in words and I look at you with emotions" and "We will never see eye to eye".
This really permeates the lyrics and Sakito did a great job in showcasing the mismatch between them.
"I don't want to see blood, it's such a terrible 5 o'clock in the afternoon" is Ferdinand himself talking as he's been separated from Marianne. He repeats the words as he sits down on a train track but as the train comes he gets out at the last second, once again showcasing his descent into the sad clown "Pierrot" and an omen of what's to come.
"I finally found it" "Our eternity" is a reference to the very last words spoken in the movie. After Ferdinand blows himself up, he and Marianne are reunited in death and you hear this conversation:
F: "I finally found it"
M: "What did you find?"
F: "Eternity"
M: "It's the ocean"
F: "And the sun"
This signals that they found harmony in death but Sakito's version indicates that Marianne wanted no part in a forever like that and that's an interesting change, to say the least.
Godard loved to play around with colors. Of course, he never shared why but one can guess why Pierrot for example chose to paint his face blue before his demise. Is it a symbol of sadness and melancholy? Is it because it's the color of the ocean and, in a sense, that Pierrot has now faded into eternity? Is it his makeup to symbolize his full transformation to a sad clown? Both yellow and red are used a lot as well, and he could just put a red overlay on a scene to maybe indicate violence, passion or something else. It's really up to us to interpret so feel free to see it as you wish.
Phew! If you made it this far—kudos to you my friend. As usual I went too deep and had to share all my thoughts from this rabbit hole I'd been diving into these last weeks. If you have the chance I really recommend that you watch the movie yourself as it contains some very memorable scenes and dialogue.
As always, take care of yourselves out there!
Single: Rebel (2023)
Composition: Sakito
Lyrics: Sakito
Track no: 2
Hey guys! Today I bring you "Pierrot Le Fou" and this one is quiet special since it's based off the movie with the same name made by Jean-Luc Godard in 1965. We're doing a deep dive today so hold on tight!
Obvious spoilers ahead!
Firstly, a quick summary of the plot. Ferdinand Griffon is an unhappily married man who's grown tired of his boring, bourgeois life. He seeks a greater purpose in life and decides to run away with his ex, Marianne Renoir, leaving his wife and children behind. Coming into Marianne's apartment and finding a corpse, Ferdinand realizes that Marianne is being chased by OAS gangsters and this sets of a chain of events where they go on a crime spree, constantly chased by gangsters and police until they end up settling down at the French Riviera. Their relationship becomes strained however, as Ferdinand spends his days philosophizing, reading and writing a diary while Marianne—more grounded and impulsive—wants to escape the boredom they've ended up in and live freely.
After another series of events involving the gangsters, Marianne ends up betraying Ferdinand and runs off with Fred (whom she'd previously referred to as her brother) and this leads to a tragic ending where Ferdinand chases them down, shoots them dead and then decides to paint his face blue, wrap dynamite around his head and blow himself up.
During the whole movie, Marianne keeps calling Ferdinand "Pierrot" but what is a Pierrot exactly? The character Pierrot was born in an Italian theathrical edition and is depicted as a sad clown with a white face, often wearing white clothes with black buttons. The character himself is a hopeless romantic—naive, dreamy and a misfit struggling to find his place in the world but never really feeling like he belongs anywhere. He's very passive and suffers beautifully, even as things fall apart right before his eyes. This of course applies perfectly to Ferdinand who also feels like he has no place in the world and instead spouts philosophy, poetry and irony but never really finds any meaning. He sees himself as deep while in reality he has no substance—he's just sad and lost, chasing after romance in a doomed adventure that ultimately leads to both his and his love's demise.
Now, the way in which Sakito has incorporated Godard's narrative style of the movie into the lyrics is a thing of beauty. Godard's narrative style is fast-paced and often shifting between characters without a breath and this is exactly what Sakito does here as well. At first it does seem like Marianne is talking but then from "A childlike dreamer..." it's suddenly the Pierrot himself talking and then we go back to Marianne again beginning with "Our line of fate is short" which she herself sings in the movie.
Also, some direct references to the movie! Throughout the lyrics you really feel the discontent between both the characters, especially from Marianne's side. She herself says this in the movie:
"You speak to me in words and I look at you with emotions" and "We will never see eye to eye".
This really permeates the lyrics and Sakito did a great job in showcasing the mismatch between them.
"I don't want to see blood, it's such a terrible 5 o'clock in the afternoon" is Ferdinand himself talking as he's been separated from Marianne. He repeats the words as he sits down on a train track but as the train comes he gets out at the last second, once again showcasing his descent into the sad clown "Pierrot" and an omen of what's to come.
"I finally found it" "Our eternity" is a reference to the very last words spoken in the movie. After Ferdinand blows himself up, he and Marianne are reunited in death and you hear this conversation:
F: "I finally found it"
M: "What did you find?"
F: "Eternity"
M: "It's the ocean"
F: "And the sun"
This signals that they found harmony in death but Sakito's version indicates that Marianne wanted no part in a forever like that and that's an interesting change, to say the least.
Godard loved to play around with colors. Of course, he never shared why but one can guess why Pierrot for example chose to paint his face blue before his demise. Is it a symbol of sadness and melancholy? Is it because it's the color of the ocean and, in a sense, that Pierrot has now faded into eternity? Is it his makeup to symbolize his full transformation to a sad clown? Both yellow and red are used a lot as well, and he could just put a red overlay on a scene to maybe indicate violence, passion or something else. It's really up to us to interpret so feel free to see it as you wish.
Phew! If you made it this far—kudos to you my friend. As usual I went too deep and had to share all my thoughts from this rabbit hole I'd been diving into these last weeks. If you have the chance I really recommend that you watch the movie yourself as it contains some very memorable scenes and dialogue.
As always, take care of yourselves out there!
