Antonioni is such a director. Stand on the highest point and feel the coldness of this height. Laughing at this, crying at this, sophisticated and childish, neurotic with his own unique aesthetics, he stands on the vast land of art.
I like Italian movies because of his extreme feelings, because of his compassion and helplessness, the vast land conquered by Julius Caesar, and the spirit of all people in the West conquered by the Pope of Rome. The contrast of today's desolation is how a kind of spiritual energy is produced.
"Eclipse" is Antonioni's fourth film I have seen, and his pleasure in watching the film comes from the philosophical summary at the end of the film. "Eclipse" in Chinese means damage, deficit.
Lao Tzu once said in "The Tao Te Ching", "The way of heaven , if you lose more than you have, make up for what you lack. The way of man is not so, if you don't have enough, you will make up for it." Love life, the Italian stock market, political socialism and the crisis of nuclear weapons. The film also discusses a series of issues such as feminism, sociality, gender relations, material and spiritual... This kind of extension from the small to the big, that is, the concern of the distance between people and the expansion of the group-to-group opposition in economy and politics, from the big to the origin, this is the unique insight of Antonioni-like Italian directors .
The director's ability to read mise-en-scène is very strong, the unconventional way of scheduling, especially the background and foreground emoticons, the mood of the characters, a lot of symbolism vocabulary, in the final single shot of a large number of characters and empty shots, even let I am reminded of the Soviet school of montage in the 1820s.
The movie is not simple. When I watched it a year or two ago, I thought that Antonio Ni’s axe was tricky, and the movie was boring. Now, when I read it again, I felt that the director was a master among the masters.
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