Blow-Up Comments

  • Zechariah 2023-09-16 21:22:40

    It must be acknowledged that Michelangelo Antonioni's unique and concise style of film aesthetics, whether it is the picture or dialogue, as well as the absurd and nihilistic philosophical ideas shown in the film, but only for this story with a good setting , the overall presentation is inevitably a bit boring. The final scene of "Playing Tennis with Empty Hands" in "Zoom in" is the most splendid sequence, and it is an extraordinary act of...

  • Joy 2023-08-18 14:23:14

    4- The bird i'm with won't talk to you. Materialized symbols Where is the life you like in Nepal or Morocco Is it easier to escape this era? Loved more smoke against the beat in the second...

  • Darion 2023-07-19 19:17:46

    Partial facts cannot be called the truth, and after magnifying the key parts, there are more losses behind the truth. The plot is quite novel, the virtual tennis at the end is very exciting, and even the title of the film has a unique connotation. The slow camera does not create dullness, but sets off a serious and cold philosophical...

  • Isobel 2023-05-24 23:21:40

    Perhaps the inspiration for "The Depths of a Hundred Flowers" came from this, but I feel that Chen Kaige did a better job. Naked smashing the piano is superfluous, and the movie is not a...

  • Chasity 2023-05-10 07:31:26

    Absurdist? Hate photographers like that, self-righteous. What else do you do besides press the shutter? Times marked psychology and philosophy. The models are...

  • Olen 2023-05-04 00:13:29

    As soon as Antonioni made a suspense film, I was helpless. Philosophy is definitely not...

  • Hermann 2023-04-30 02:59:48

    2008.3.29 After watching a lot of mess, I watched this good movie. Four and a half stars. Although the definition of a literary film is unclear, but after watching this film, it is recognized that this is a literary film.

  • Green 2023-04-22 02:03:53

    The most powerful film discussing the virtual and the real, the first half an hour is absolutely unintelligible, and the more you look back, the more the director's intentions surface, until the powerful ending: the male protagonist threw the "air" tennis ball back, close-up close-up, his face appeared When you smile, the real tennis sound appears as a voice-over and becomes a subjective sound effect. When you shoot the distant view from above, the small male protagonist on the lawn disappears....

  • Keeley 2023-04-12 19:40:37

    Dai Jinhua: "Antonio clearly never conceived and presented the end like Kubrick did, nor did he focus on salvation like Bergman; his modern Western world was filled with tired and bitter losers, with nameless losers. Violence under the coercion of...

  • Myrl 2023-04-11 12:49:44

    8.0/7.6 Curiosity drives us to find out the truth, but when we face the truth, we do what we can. Then, should we reconsider what is...

Extended Reading

Blow-Up quotes

  • Jane: What are you doing? Stop it! Stop it! Give me those pictures. You can't photograph people like that.

    Thomas: Who says I can't? I'm only doing my job. Some people are bullfighters, some people are politicians. I'm a photographer.

  • Thomas: I wish I had tons of money... Then I'd be free.