戈达尔这部审视1960年代末的反传统文化思潮的纪录片透过鲁瓦·琼斯和艾吉·克里夫的作品,观察了1960年代美国民运高峰期间的“黑豹党”。其它重要的主题包括媒体的角色,媒体化的影像,一个逐渐转为技术统治者的社会,女性解放运动,法国“五月风暴”,和语言的力量。镜头在三个主要场景间切换,其中包括在录音室的滚石乐队,影片还插入Eve Democracy用涂鸦方式将社团组织和意识形态并置的画面。同事戈达尔还对西方文化中的革命角色进行了检验。尽管他相信西方文化需要推倒重来,但必须通过抗拒精英分子知识化的途径才能完成。“只有一种方式进行文化革命,那就是放弃做一名知识分子。”Godard's documentation of late 1960s Western counter-culture, examining the Black Panthers, referring to works by LeRoi Jones and Eldridge Cleaver. Other notable subjects are the role of news media, the mediated image, a growing technocratic society, women's liberation, the May revolt in France and the power of language. Cutting between three major scenes, including the Rolling Stones in the studio, the film is visually intercut with Eve Democracy (Wiazemsky) using graffiti which amalgamates organisations, corporations and ideologies. Godard also examines the role of the revolutionary within Western culture. Although he believes Western culture needs to be destroyed, it can only be done so by the rejection of intellectualisation. "There is only one way to be an intellectual revolutionary, and that is to give up being an intellectual"