Lonely and alienated, love out of reach

Ena 2022-04-21 09:03:02

estranged. The relationship between people always seems to be close to each other, taking one step closer, and then lingering two steps, as if playing a game on the table, no one will show their cards, and no one will be happy. This kind of emotional gambling, even if whoever has the upper hand, also produces a plain sense of vulnerability; mystery and concealment, but they are all afraid of losing everything while revealing their own scars.

No matter how cold and distant the surface, everyone longs for passion and love.

Antonioni's picture manipulation seems to have always been calm and restrained. The lighting, scenery, costumes, character movements, expressions, screen segmentation, detail hints and foreshadowing of each scene are close to perfection, restrained but not deliberate, no character is With a flat face, nothing develops in an orderly manner. His camera language is neat but clueless, full of details. If you wait patiently and curiously, you don't know where the story will go. Expand on a fork.

The camera is full of unexplained eagerness, which seems so oppressive and unclear, but I can clearly feel a yearning for understanding, love, passion, and liveliness.

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Extended Reading
  • Bill 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    An impeccable beginning and end, with a stunning grasp of space, full of the alienation and indifference of a Carver-esque short story

  • Micaela 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    (8.4/10) Monica Vitti's "distancing" performance, in contrast to Antonioni's spatial narrative, is alienated, indifferent, and unspeakable. Space seems to constitute the protagonist of the film. People exist depending on the space, or people constitute a part of the space, a kind of "landscape"-like existence. Just like the "landscape clip" at the end, people disappear, but space still exists.

L'Eclisse quotes

  • Piero: What are you writing?

    Vittoria: I'm translating some Spanish.

    Piero: How do you say "I want to come up" in Spanish?

    Vittoria: You say, "You can't". Tough language, isn't it?

  • Vittoria: What did you do last night?

    Piero: I had dinner with seven or eight billion lira.

    Vittoria: Or was it a call girl?

    Piero: Who has time to go out with call girls? I'm the call girl.