Antonioni's first color film, the composition and color are very particular. The black earth and rivers, the gray air and the sea, only the clothes of women and children are colored, and red symbolizes people's emotions and desires.
The story is about a lost woman.
She is lost in the residence polluted by industrialization. The heavily polluted industrial factory area is in stark contrast to the environment in which "the sea is transparent and the sand is pink" when she was a child. Those mysterious ships and songs may represent the temptation of modern industrialization to human beings. , it may also be the temptation in the growth of the heroine.
She is also lost in love. "If only Hugo could look at me like you do." She couldn't get her husband's love, and she was lonely and broken. And her husband's colleagues love him, they talk to each other, she tries to find comfort and salvation from him, but in the end all he wants is her body.
Not just this woman, everyone in the red desert is lost.
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