The film explores the interpersonal relationship in modern society and reveals through Victoria's fate: Westerners not only lose their rationality but also their emotions, leaving only feelings. The streets and buildings of Rome in the film are quite astringent and cold, echoing the mentality of alienated people. However, in the overall artistic treatment, we can see some changes in the so-called "Antonioni style". Long shots are used less, and the scene paragraphs are more "fragmented". Emphasizes the "blank space" in the relationship between Victoria and Pierrot
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The theme of the film may be a bit clichéd, but it is still a feeling of indifferent and gradual alienation between people. But in the period of economic miracle in the 1960s, the crisis of humanity and morality and the exposure of people's spiritual emptiness caused great resonance in the society
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