Red Desert Comments

  • Reva 2022-04-22 07:01:48

    It is indeed a cold, lonely, modern, and pathologically perverted movie. It is often out of place, but if you grasp a little "love incompetence" (the mental sequelae of the heroine's car accident and concussion), you can slowly understand the heroine. The audio-visual language is wonderful, and the color combination is especially good and meaningful. It's a film that is metaphorically obvious, and about modernity and industry and human emotion, no one is more profound than...

  • Nedra 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    Antonioni's first color film, the use of color is extremely bold. - But the narrative is vague and utterly...

  • Miles 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    "...my purpose is to interpret the poetry of a world in which factories and chimneys in flux are beautiful. It is a rich world, full of energy and endurance, as I describe this The first thing neurotic women face is adjustment. People have to adapt in this world, some people can survive, some people can't, probably because they are too attached to the past." -...

  • Destini 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    What is the symbolic meaning of the green dress on the head and tail of the heroine? Is it a symbol of the weak vitality under the ravages of the barbaric modern industry, or is it implying that the heroine chooses to compromise and become peaceful after suffering from the fear and anxiety brought by the cold industrial society, or do you want to say that the heroine has greened her...

  • Alexys 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    The legendary master's first color film. In today's emotional desertification, the way out for love is madness? Is it a compromise? Is it numb? Is it relieved? The feasting, the spring and the white snow, men and women, I think, will be troubled by this problem, maybe they are being troubled, or they have been troubled all the time. The works of the masters have one thing in common: they like to play with metaphors and they like to be vague. Like every windbreaker in Monica, the windbreaker can...

  • Alexandrine 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    The composition and color matching are very literary and artistic. The background of the story takes place in a mining factory area. There are huge machines everywhere, high chimneys with poisonous smoke, and a huge amount of white steam spit out from the pipes. The whole mining area is left behind after mining. The ravines, the constantly steaming surface, the polluted rivers, the sea water, are like a purgatory on earth. The story tells the maddening spirit of the heroine. Her husband is the...

  • Arden 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    Neurotic woman spokeswoman Monica Vitti. . . Antonioni is really suitable to be a fashion designer, taste is so...

  • Madisyn 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    7.5/10 Bokeh, color, noise; the incapacitation of love, the ruins of civilization, the anxiety of modernity; the first "true" color film to construct a psychological reality by artificially recreating the color of the real object through spray painting. Middle class, too middle class [Can the sailor speak (Italian)?]; ]; modernist, too modernist [is Hollywood the other way around? ——Mr. Antonioni, I am more curious about you with the camera behind the lens than the content in the lens....

  • Margot 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    The film uses bold and strong color contrast, strong and noisy dubbing and split and distorted performances to construct an alienated picture of modern industrial civilization for us. The image is a little dull and rigid, and the sweeping shot is always accompanied by dense whistle and machine noise, as well as the tearing representation of the heroine, revealing a disgust and rejection of modern civilization. The industrial background is presented in a negative and disruptive manner, in...

  • Benjamin 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    I didn't understand until I read the introduction ╮(╯▽╰)╭, very characterful shot, Antonioni's first! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !...

Extended Reading

Red Desert quotes

  • Giuliana: Are you a leftist or a rightist?

    Corrado Zeller: Why do you ask such a question? Are you interested in politics?

    Giuliana: Good Lord, no. I was just wondering.

    Corrado Zeller: It's like asking, "What do you believe in?" Those are big words, Giuliana, that calls for precise answers. Deep down... one doesn't really know what one believes in. One believes in humanity... in a certain sense. A little less in justice. A little more in progress. One believes in socialism... perhaps. What matters is to act as one thinks right - right for oneself and for others. In other words, with a clean conscience. Mine is at peace. Does that answer your question?

    Giuliana: That's some bunch of words you strung together.

  • Linda, Max's Wife: Where's Augusto?

    Mili: I dumped him.

    Linda, Max's Wife: Since when?

    Mili: I can't go to bed with a man who earns less than me.