Rewatching "Zoom", I found that the questions "What is real? Can we grasp the real" may be the starting point of the film, but it is not structured around these, but is based on "the experience of the hero's sleepwalking day" Established. The first few scenes are the routine life of the famous photographer—mechanical and empty. The most iconic is the scene where he took a photo of a supermodel, which was clearly filmed as having sex. He was very tired and bored after the shoot, and more importantly, empty. After that, he looked for excitement everywhere, racing cars, buying propellers... but still empty, which is the general characteristic of his life. It's understandable why he's so excited and obsessed with this murder, it's like a kid has finally found a new toy and an unusual thing has finally happened in his life! He wanted to tell the painter's neighbors about it right away, but saw them having sex in the room, so he left; later he told the painter's wife that she wasn't interested; she wanted to talk about his love life, and he wasn't interested . It's an emotional quandary, and the two can't really communicate. He ran into the city at night to find his partner and toured the city of London at night - Antonioni seized the opportunity to present a social picture, showing that the emptiness and poverty of life is not a personal problem of one person, but the totality of society as a whole feature. The photographer finally understood that no one was interested in his little toy. This can be seen as one of the themes: modern attempts to connect emotionally with others have ultimately failed. When he returned to the park the next day, he found that the body was no longer there, and all the photos he took later were gone. I think the point here is not the question of authenticity or not, but the feeling of loss in the photographer's heart, like a beloved toy has been accidentally lost. The momentary excitement passed, and he fell back into emptiness. At the end of the famous "tennis game where tennis doesn't exist", he sees something strange again, but this time it's less exciting and exciting because he understands his situation: no one really feels his heart. interest. He doesn't have anyone with whom he can really communicate. So what is his attitude towards this?
Not screaming, not suicide. He accepted. He decided to go with the flow and keep playing the game, so he picked up the non-existent tennis ball and threw it back on the tennis court. The whole film is about his one-day experience, but it is not a random day, but a day when his life suddenly encounters a crisis, a day when he accidentally realizes the truth of his life.
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