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
  • Krista 2022-03-27 09:01:09

    5.0 Individual Top Ten Candidates Private Italy, Anthony the best. Anthony's Palme d'Or. The naked male perspective coexists with the bright female perspective. With the sign of suspense, the meaning of peeping is like the Polish director Kishen's "Love Short Film" shining into the abyss of fear. Anthony first was brisk and bright, gradually changing the narrative structure, and then exploring the relationship between classical and material. A series of "naked" photography games are both sexual hints and spherical private bodies, and the deconstructed temperament of spherical private bodies is blurred and sudden! In my postmodernist thinking mode, I ponder the subtlety of the mirror of the three people's "bare clothes and nakedness". It was originally a game, abstraction, abstraction, related to the future, and also related to the past. , corresponding to its alienation trilogy in the past! Great and magnificent! Hard to attach! Watch it, you can't sleep for a long time, your spirit is better! Worth brushing all night long! ! !

  • Sasha 2022-03-24 09:02:12

    The photographer's home (or studio) itself is like a complex installation art. Glass, background walls, curtains, doors of different colors and some weird little objects all make the real environment collapse into dizziness. Cortazar's obsessed text devours reality, and the confusion of reality and reality is reversed through the medium of the camera lens, like the devil spit saliva densely weaves the sensory network. Although the folds of the novel are smoothed out in the film, the film re-folds the new through the image. The layers of folds, an adaptation as great as the original or a re-creation of the literary language translated through the language of film.

Blow-Up quotes

  • Thomas: Someone's been killed. I want you to see the corpse.

  • Thomas: I want you to see the corpse. We've got to get a shot of it.

    Ron: I'm not a photographer.

    Thomas: I am!