Zabriskie Point Antonioni's failure

2022-03-13 08:01
Perhaps the most unpleasant thing about Zabriskie Point is the adults gleefully playing the role of children. Our warriors and heroines flirt with each other, their romantic escapes in airplanes, and their giggling giggles, and it turns out, you know, it's Antonioni's work.
Antonioni is a director who shines from time to time. The basic idea of ​​his films that boredom with pop culture can destroy our ability to love and feel, reflected in his films is a strong sense of alienation and mental exhaustion. We love movies like this, and Eclipse in 1962 left us feeling alone and betrayed as we walked out of the cinema. The same goes for Zoom in 1966. But 1964's " The Red Desert " was a bland work, but it was Antonioni's work after all, and he knew what to do with such a film. 1970's Zabriskie Point was devastating, and the great director made perhaps the most failed film of his life. The character's words are empty and boring, without any resonance to speak of, just immersed in self and Gu Ying's self-pity.
When our hero escapes the scene of the "kill", he boarded a plane, and after an inexplicable encounter effort, they walked into the desert and started making love, the two rolled in the sand without any sense of pleasure and release , this love is really ridiculous. "Zabriskie Point" isn't actually complicated, Antonioni's attempt to make up for the film's lack of content with a plethora of outdoor billboards—the billboards that are symbols of a crumbling America eroded by capitalism—is not as effective. Not good, there is always a feeling of fatigue in collage.
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  • Eino 2022-04-23 07:05:21

    113mins//Zabriskie Point was like a flowing river of love in that time. Sex was much better than war.//The special possibility of the 1960s and 1970s was that their desire for freedom was strongly expressed and fully practiced, but every era was not the best The worst or the worst//Break up if you're not happy and make you feel alive//Are you watching atypical author movies today?

  • Nat 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    The terrible movie Antonioni made in Hollywood is one of my favorites I've seen so far. It focuses on the struggles of youth in the context of student movements. Two men and women who were dropped from the social movement discovered a spiritual holy place in the desert. After that, the male protagonist returned to society and went to destruction. The female protagonist could only imagine an explosion in her mind to resist the establishment. Youth, wildness, anger, rebellion, lust, utopia, the repression of capitalist establishment, such themes can travel through time and space. The sudden insertion of explosion scenes and desert love scenes in the film should be a highlight moment in film history. The director broke away from the excessive self-identity projection of the director in the previous films, and did not get too entangled in the indifferent and isolated living state and spiritual world of the petty bourgeoisie and intellectuals. In fact, although that state is portrayed to the bone, to today's audience, the films are just as blunt, tedious and uninteresting, as pale as the protagonists they represent.

Zabriskie Point quotes

  • Male Black Radical Student #2: There's one way to talk to the Man. And that's in his own language. If Man's language is a gun, we talk to him with a gun. It's very simple.

  • Mark: I'm willing to die, too.

    Female White Radical Student #3: Alone?

    Mark: But, not of boredom.

    [exits the student strike meeting]

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