The theme of the film is "Is the truth we think we capture real?". After understanding this, you can understand the correctness and truth of the aesthetics of painting with friends, throw away the stolen guitar and then pick it up and throw it away after a glance, various stories when investigating murder cases, hippies do not exist. The tennis and other plots want to express what.
In addition to the plot itself, Antonioni focused on exploring people's "emotional reactions" to the "captured reality" in order to further express the uncertainty and even the false sense of the "captured reality" in the audiovisual. These emotional responses include happiness, tension, confusion, and more. But no matter what kind of emotion it is, without exception, Antonioni is photographed very "alienated", and the positive emotions (happiness, excitement, etc.) are photographed with a feeling of being alienated to "false". For example, the composition of the lying female model (that is, the poster) at the beginning, although there are many exciting moments for the male protagonist, from the tone to the composition and even the soundtrack, there is such a sense of "alienation/false". Other "alienation" clips also include some compositions of the five-model black photography door, the composition of two people in different backgrounds at a friend's house, the composition of the overlooking grass at the end, and so on.
The creation of this sense of "alienation" successfully expresses the sense of falsehood and uncertainty about the "captured reality". To be honest, it is not uncommon for Antonioni to film "Alienation", and his films are all about this kind of emotion. But it is quite novel to be able to use "alienation" in this way. It seems that Antonioni has thought deeply about the emotion of "alienation".
However, the biggest innovation of the film is reflected in the narrative structure. It is true that the narrative structure is very similar to "Adventure", the story is not finished, but the essence is different. "Zoom" pays more attention to the emotional state of people investigating homicides, rather than homicides, so the film's focus is not on homicides, and it doesn't even bother to tell the truth about homicides (some people think that the movie's refusal to tell the truth about homicides also echoes this kind of belief in the truth. Doubtful. I don't think so, because if so, the murder should feel like "mystery" or simply tell us that the murder "doesn't exist," but Antonioni clearly had no intention of creating it It’s a kind of “bewildering” or “false”, but it just goes to the point, and does not do too much about the clues of the murder case itself); "Adventure" is to make the film structure fit the atmosphere (for details, see my "Adventure" short review).
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