Rebellion of reality under the absurd

Max 2022-04-21 09:02:30

"Zoom" adheres to Antonioni's usual weakened narrative style, infiltrating color, scheduling, composition, philosophy, existentialism and nothingness into this stream-of-consciousness film. However, Director An changed his usual female perspective, and switched to shooting from the perspective of a male photographer with a successful and pompous career. This seems to be Antonioni's self-projection. The photographer is the subject of observation ("seeing"). Through the camera's in-depth analysis, we explore the cultural crisis and deep spiritual emptiness of Western youth groups in this era.

Speculative philosophical meaning, absurd existentialism, and weird scene: the audience listens to the songs of "Idol" dumbly, they pay more attention to the stars themselves, not their works; grabbing broken guitars is only for the process of grabbing, not for grabbing result.

If the non-traditional suspense film says that what the eyes see is not necessarily true, and what is recorded by the camera is not necessarily true, then what is the real benchmark? Is this a fantasy or is it real?

Thomas quickly snubbed the model after shooting the pictorial. The abrupt brown "slashes" in the picture broke the rigidity of the horizontal layout and increased the three-dimensional and directional sense of the picture. The close-up wide-angle shot elongates the torso of the model, and the dark gray sofa in the picture echoes the ground in the foreground, which is also dark gray, and seems to suppress the model. The contrast between the front and the back highlights Thomas' arrogance as if he were stepping the model under his feet.
Thomas did not find the body and looked up at the sky. When the audience thought it was Thomas' subjective point of view, the pan down became Thomas looking at the ground. Let the audience be shocked: what kind of world does the real Thomas exist in? What is real and what is illusory - and how is this illusion manifested?
The presence of the carnival white-faced crowd shifts the film's magical realism tone to a stage-dramatic surrealism

Magical ending - even the camera is involved in this game of nothingness, focusing on the tennis ball that the audience "can't see".

The film focuses more on a man who can't be sure if a homicide happened, rather than a homicide that did.

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Extended Reading
  • Tatyana 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    The second brush of the screen is still amazing, stunning and shocking. Always indulge in Antonioni's dream, just like Thomas never escaped from his nihilistic world. Camera, camera magnifier... multiple equipment, several degrees of magnification. The black and white in color and the emptiness in film create fantasy time and space, which are developed in countless times of magnification, and rubbed on the boundary between reality and fantasy. The image realm formed by color and fashion, coupled with a sense of detachment from reality. Too strong gravity.

  • Joannie 2022-03-21 09:02:11

    A mind-blowing movie

Blow-Up quotes

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

  • [first lines]

    Mime: Give me your money. Do it.