Those people and things in life together are our life, and no one is absolutely free. Confusion, madness, hysteria, sensitivity, loneliness, fear, anxiety, that is the heroine's self-seeking and resistance, she is locked in the cage of industrialization, sewage, yellow smoke, mechanized production lines, and the life she touches The elements surrounding her capital everywhere, her husband, her class, her way of entertainment, are all configured by the appreciation and self-production of capital. Antonioni's performance is undoubtedly superb. The poetic scenes set off the repression of the film's industrial society and slow down the rhythm of the film's narrative. Often under those scenes are the performance of the characters' monologues and emotional thinking. The authentic state is integrated with the natural poetic scene, and at the same time, it contrasts with the confusion and depression of people in the industrial scene. That inserted story is undoubtedly the finishing touch. The music at the beginning widens the comfortable distance from the audience at once, and creates a strange alienation with the blurred factory background. The monotonous mechanical sound in the factory is extremely discordant and depressing. And the use of color highlights the incompatibility between human nature and the cold machine, the close-up of the character's eyes, the cut of the montage, the echo of the musical style of the beginning and the end, and the blandness of the ending, all revealing Antonioni's kind of The deep sadness that does not need to be strongly expressed, perhaps, he has clearly recognized the sad fate that people are destined to be unfree, and he also sighed faintly with the departure of the last mother and son, and the factory camera freezes. This is a film poem that criticizes the alienation of human beings in industrial society, praises the pure part of human nature, but also laments the unfreedom and tragic fate of human beings. How many shots will stay in my mind for a long time, it is difficult to wave away...
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