I feel like I want to give 5 stars to Antonioni from the beginning. Either way it deserves 5 stars.
If the themes of Antonioni's films are all about the understanding and reflection of the post-war world and modernity, this film will definitely have a greater impact on me than "Red Desert". To me, the Red Desert is more of a way of using the language of the past, a kind of psychoanalysis of the 20th-30th century (must be pre-Jungian anyway); to articulate the subject. However, "Zoom" is a way of using modern, even post-modern language to illustrate this theme. (It is said that Zizek also likes "Zoom"?)
I think in fact, many places have been highly commented and said very well. Whether it is the theme or the explanation of a few more important scenes, there is no meaning to say much. I will write down some details that I have seen myself.
The first is that after I watched the entire movie, I violated the starting point of the movie and went back to see if the murderer and the corpse existed when the woman was filmed before. And at the end of the film, after the male protagonist found that the corpse was gone, the billboard in the distance flickered, and then the male protagonist and I were suddenly attracted to it. However, the moment of change of the billboard has been missed at this time, and we can only see what it has become, but not when and before it changes. And if you look back to the end, did you see the murderer and the corpse? Readers can find it for themselves, but it doesn't really make much sense. (my answer is at the end)
The second is the fit point with that era - punk. At the beginning, the truck carrying more than ten "punks" flashed past, and I got to this point in an instant. But what's interesting is that they don't appear again in the main part of the film; instead, they come out and play tennis with us at the end. (Personally, I don’t think punk can belong to rock, and should be understood separately.) What kind of person is punk? I think it's the same kind of "modern man" that Antonioni wanted to express. But they seem to be more emotional than the male and female protagonists in "Zoom" and "Red Desert". They weren't bad, but were deeply influenced by a postwar nihilism and a modern sense of vertigo.
The third is a comparison with Red Desert. If the red desert is a kind of clutter, and itself is noise, this province will bring a sense of dizziness to the viewer; zooming in is more like saying something very illusory in a rational way. This creates a sense of dislocation. In other words, we see a real scene in a virtual medium, but this real scene points to a deeper level of nothingness. Using nothingness to express nothingness in a seemingly real way. I think that's the magic of this movie.
If it makes me feel the most beautiful, I think I will still choose a scene similar to the old tower. It was the scene of secretly filming a woman in the park at the beginning. In fact, looking back and thinking, this turned out to be the most real scene in life. In fact, candid photography is a direct realization of desire. (Also: I feel that the vision in this movie is really beautiful)
Answer: It seems that there is a corpse, but because he is too lazy to zoom in, the murderer can't see it, so let's pretend he doesn't have it.
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