"Looks like Bill's painting"

Alexander 2022-04-23 07:02:33

People are always accustomed to assigning some continuous meaning to incomplete images, "it looks like Bill's painting", the meaning of the image is given by the person who sees it after the image appears, and the movie is also in a certain level. With such an existence, the film is also composed of a series of image splicing.

However, in order to prove this subjective meaning, only one person's opinion or the so-called objective but one-sided recording of the image is not enough. It needs the approval of the group to construct the existence of this fact.

In the end, the meaning of objective images is still given by people. A single image loses its meaning when it is separated from the connection between the front and the back. Like the remaining photo, it can no longer explain the existence of the conceived murder case, like a concert. The broken guitar at the scene has no meaning to loot.

The identity of the group is fundamental to the construction of meaning. Everyone believes that it exists, and conversely, one-sided words that no one proves cannot construct meaning. A person saw the body with his own eyes and no one saw it. Did this really happen? There is no answer. A group of people playing a tennis game that didn't exist, but because everyone believed it, the game existed. The male protagonist finally chose to believe and join the game, which was the final compromise.

The male protagonist is really an interesting character. After reading it, I realized that apart from his occupation, he knew nothing about his background, not even his name, whether he had a wife, or whether he had children. He is not a positive character, he is hypocritical and arrogant. On the one hand, the director is criticizing him for his machismo and power dominance. A little bit of humanity. He may just be a concrete manifestation of some kind of thought.

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Extended Reading
  • Chadrick 2022-03-22 09:02:02

    The revellers' tennis followed the opening into a Mobius ring, erasing the boundaries between the real and the unreal from the start. In terms of existence or not, what only one can see and what only one cannot see are the same thing.

  • Rickey 2022-03-25 09:01:10

    Strange look and feel can be said to be terrifying when thinking about it and making a fool of yourself. 1. When the male protagonist planned the album with Ron in the restaurant, he said that it would end with a park, and that he wanted a quiet feeling after violence. 2. The first scene has a strong sexual connotation. The characters in the first half are in a dominant position of power and constantly offend the surrounding, but after being amplified, they are passive to the truth and are also suppressed by the surrounding. 3. Frame composition Dafa, door seam, glass, window leaf, triangle, etc., highlight the meaning of watching/spying. 4. The white-faced silent film characters create tennis balls with motion, which is then delivered by the photographer, and the sound is created outside the painting. 5. Guitar, Paris and Tennis seem to imply that confirmation of reality is subject to conformity and no longer has absolute truth. 6. Women say that photos of corpses look like paintings, and what they own is really artistic. This also corresponds to the paradox of photography. It is impossible to seek truth, and art is favored. 7. Mysterious intruders, dangerous bushes, dimmed signs, dream or fake, Hitchcock or David Lynch? The incomplete information makes the film like a photo, with shadowy traces, trapping us in the pursuit of truth. Antonioni says the scene where the protagonist disappears amounts to his 'signature'

Blow-Up quotes

  • [first lines]

    Mime: Give me your money. Do it.

  • [last lines]

    Ron: What did you see in that park?

    Thomas: Nothing... Ron.