Eroded

Mona 2022-01-12 08:01:33

Look at the titles of this film-"The Sea of ​​Desire and the Flower of Shame", "Love Is Separated by Ten Thousand Mountains", "Eclipse". A deeply affectionate, feminine and intriguing title will tell you that this will be a movie different from the ordinary. After reading it carefully, I was entangled in the director's delicate thoughts, trapped by the algae thrown by Antonioni and dragged into the depths of the plot. When I first watched the movie, I felt that the film seemed to be about eroticism. Later, I saw that it was about the world and society. At the end, I felt that the film was not so superficial. If you look at it according to Buddhism, how it looks like Zen. of!
What is the film about? This is a question that everyone will care about after watching (especially such art films). In the later part of the film, the scene skips a certain page of a passerby newspaper, and the words such as the alertness that the nuclear crisis will bring to the world seem to have nothing to do with the large-scale flirting in the front. The social environment at that time (war and economic turmoil) made the love and emotions of young men and women at that time illusory and illusory. From the dull scene of the heroine breaking up with her ex-boyfriend at the beginning, it can be seen that she only says "don't know". The yearning and needs in her heart seem to be directionless. A large number of shots in the film show her helpless and unruly walking. Even in a friend’s house, she unscrupulously shows her empty and messy side. This is completely different from the female neighbor who has a grand world view. The female neighbor is here. I lived in Africa for a few years, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, killed elephants and hippos, and knew how to accompany my beloved father and husband. The stark contrast can also be found from the other neighbor, the female neighbor is the type who revolves around her husband. This forms a huge contrast with the lonely heroine.
Among various types of art films, this "Eclipse" is quite pleasing to the audience. From the perspective of its structural passages, lens expressiveness and story development, it is all for the sake of the audience. The extravagance and superficiality peculiar to men of that era in the film were also spoken by the director in the language of the lens just right. Men's "willful" thinking that the realization of simple routines for girls and the complacent pride of buying a good car are vividly displayed on the screen. It can only be said that the emotional sustenance of men and women in the "big" era is uncertain, as it was said earlier in the film.
Finally the director sublimated the film. In the last seven minutes, quietly shooting flowers, houses, quiet people and other scenes is the core of the whole movie. No matter how unstable people love, the lush trees and green flowers are still there. Even if the world is chaotic and chaotic, the quiet housewife will still hang out with a well-behaved baby. Even if the world you see is not what the world looks like, the world is still evolving step by step. The director actively conveyed what he was trying to tell the audience. Maybe everyone saw something totally different. The street lamp at the end looks like a lunar eclipse, in fact, it is not necessarily a street lamp, you can see what it is!

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Extended Reading
  • Sidney 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    Bravo! to the ephemeral, imperfect, poignant, and extremely lethual love. To the insurpassable scenery shots in this film for they function perfectly in sensation meaning. True, it is a pefection that can not easily be suprassed.

  • Romaine 2022-04-23 07:03:40

    Antonioni's restraint makes his films seem to have no emotion, but the delicate lens language and just the right performance seem to reveal all these delicate emotions at all times.

L'Eclisse quotes

  • Vittoria: We spent the whole night talking things over. And for what? I'm so tired and depressed. Disgusted and confused. What can I say? There are times when holding a needle and thread, or a book, or a man - it's all the same.

  • Anita: Don't the hippopatami bother you?