It is very difficult to classify this "Adventure": some people say it is a suspense drama, but we can't seem to find any clues to solve the case in the drama; say it is a romance drama, but you can't feel the slightest The sweetness and warmth of the characters are just the pleasure and indulgence of the characters in the play.
It is true that Antonioni's two-and-a-half-hour non-genre feature film itself is a challenge to the audience's viewing habits. Like the name of the film, it is full of "adventures".
Throughout the whole film, we can divide it into two parts: the first half can be called "outing to the sea", and the second half is "seeking fun". It is not difficult to find that the main characters of the two parts are the same: both are the wealthy children who call them upper class or middle class (except for the missing "Anna").
In addition, if we pay a little more attention, we will find that there is actually a middle paragraph between the two parts: that is the search for "Anna" after her disappearance. And this middle paragraph just played a turning point and a continuation of the two parts of the film before and after. What turning point? What to undertake? That is the forgetting of the old lover and the beginning of the new love.
Rather than saying that the "search for Anna" was forgotten in everyone's new love, it is better to say that Anna's departure made this new love. It can be said that while one Anna disappeared, the other Claudia was reborn, which is self-evident after Claudia changed into Anna's clothes overnight! Of course, this is only for the newly-loved lovers Claudia and Sandro, as for the other so-called Anna's friends, at most, they are playing a role in their disappearance, and they are instantly forgotten in those material pleasures. .
The main purpose of "Adventure" is that the director reveals the emptiness and hypocrisy of the humanity of this social class through a series of dull and boring character activities, as well as the annihilation of love values in this environment. Anna's disappearance seems to herald the disappearance of a kind of "faith": those churches or buildings that pass by in the play are like the "Bible" left by Anna, in front of these indulgent "rich children". So pale and powerless.
"Adventures" produced in 1960 is undoubtedly the pioneering work that established the "An's style". It opened up a new direction for the subsequent "Night", "Eclipse" and all the later films of Antonioni. At the same time, as a masterpiece in the history of film, it is not an exaggeration to say that it has a revolutionary role in film art: it infinitely expands the narrative space of film, and it brings visual language to an unprecedented application field. In this regard, the award word given by the organizing committee after the film won the "Special Jury Award" at the Cannes Film Festival is in one sentence: commend him for creating a new film language and beautiful pictures!
Of course, the technique is used to expound the thoughts and philosophy of "An's". Antonioni never deviates from the theme of his films in order to be different. Movie". Yes, that's where the depth and greatness of its films lie.
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The hero "Sandro"'s "That Cry" at the end of the movie seems to cry out the emptiness and sadness of the entire "middle class", as well as the collapse and alienation of interpersonal relationships. Let's take a look at the dilapidated, outdated "wall" with a big hole between the two. This is the best portrayal of the relationship between the two and the emotions at this moment . This is also the technique that "Antonioni" is best at: using the environment and objects as metaphors.
Under the works of "An's", every element that appears in the picture will be used by him to express the theme of the film, ranging from layers of buildings and mountains to as small as a tree branch and a gust of wind. Naturally, he took the idea of "movie of poetry, poetry of film" to the extreme.
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