After watching "Zoom" and then watching "Zabliski Corner", from the collective ignorance of the former to the student movement of the latter, the two stories do not seem to have any direct connection, but they made me deeply I feel that there is an inseparable connection between the two.
In 1966, the year "Zoom" was released, student movements and workers' strikes were already sporadically unfolding in Europe, and anti-Vietnam War demonstrations were in full swing in the United States. Maybe "Zoom" has the same. Purpose and meaning, but Antonioni doesn't dive straight into it like Godard or Chris Mark, but like a journalist teetering on the brink of a struggle, or a reporter documenting the whole thing. In "Zoom in", Antonioni tells the story of a photographer who met a couple in a park and took a few candid photos, and then was inexplicably caught in a murder case. When the photos were enlarged layer by layer, the bodies in the grass were captured. When it was discovered that the mystery might finally be revealed, everything seemed to return to the beginning, and no one believed the whole incident, because the witnesses and the evidence all disappeared. The photographer finally tried to seek the help of his companions to find out the truth, but was also rejected and was given alcohol and drugs. He slept until dawn, and when he woke up and returned to the place where the incident happened, everything was as if nothing had happened. . At the end of the film is a tennis match with sound but invisible, a struggle between "existence" and "non-existence". Is the reality true or false? The director gave a non-committal answer: only what the group agrees with is true. From the movie to reality, it can be inferred that Antonioni has been keenly aware of what is happening in the real world, but he has no position and is not sure, he chose to wait and observe.
Time flies to 1970, the May storm wave has ended, but the anti-war demonstrations in the United States are at their peak. "Zablsky Point" was born in such a chaotic America, and the theme of the film revolves around the student movement. But at the beginning of the film, it is not difficult to find from the heated debate among the students that their movement is not just for anti-war, but a democratic revolution around all aspects of society, from fighting for student rights to fighting for black rights to opposing capitalism Concentrated, the scope of the movement has seeped into the interior of American society. But Antonioni is still Antonioni. Instead of telling the student movement from a big-picture perspective, he tells a story of a "love road" that seems completely intangible. The film begins with Mark, a male student participating in the movement, and Dalia, a female secretary of a business company who has an inexplicable relationship with his boss. Mark is involved in a student-organized movement. He and his peers and teachers are arrested. During the struggle, a police officer was accidentally killed, so he was wanted by the police, and he stole a private helicopter effortlessly and fled; on the other hand, the female secretary Dalia, for some unknown reason, drove to Phoenix alone.
Here, the author first arranged a scene of what Dalia saw and heard in the desert. In the desert, she found a tavern and seemed to be looking for a man. At the same time, she met a middleweight boxing champion here. She then sees a car on all fours and a group of urchins, who ask her to show them her ass, apparently teasing her, Dalia gets rid of them and flees the place, Dalia boarded In her own car, the camera did not follow her, but stayed where she was, accompanied by a song "Tennessee Waltz" aimed at the old man drinking in the pub. This part is really fascinating. It can be seen that the director did not because of the gang Naughty child and give this place a savage definition, on the contrary, in the movie, this is the paradise of the free, it is free, it is bohemian, it is pure and true, and it is beautiful. Bliski Corner foreshadowing.
Then, distinct Antonioni's personal style begins to emerge, from the plane chase to the climax of Zabriskie Point, like a dream, as mysterious as all of Antonioni's films. The climax of the whole film, which is also a concentrated interpretation of the director's personal style, is the carnival at Zabliski Corner. It was only a matter of a few hours from the first meeting between Mark and Dalia to having sex, but it changed the fate of the two. In Zabriskie Point, a natural and wild place, Dalia said: It makes me feel at home. Afterwards, this place became a space for two people, like an empty square, more like a huge bedroom. The two made love without incident. The yellow sand everywhere was like a natural bed, and the vast sky was like It's an invisible sheet. Here, from the original two people to three people to four people, and finally to the carnival of countless people, all of them are like Mark and Dalia, making love between lime and yellow sand, all of them are like the most The primitive beast has no hypocrisy unique to human beings, only animal nature and desire are left, and almost all the characteristics of human society have been abandoned. This may be the happiest part of the film and the happiest game in nature. But is this love?
Is this love? No, it's definitely not, at least not in love at Zabriskie Point. In connection with the United States at that time, another unique ranking of the revolutionary movement was "sexual liberation". What is "sexual liberation"? Ang Lee's "Ice Storm" also discusses this issue, so I won't talk about it here. All in all, "sexual liberation" was the freedom of sex at that time, and "fraternity" could be widely exercised between men and women, and this wave was one of the social backgrounds of "Zablski Corner", so the Zabliski Corner's This paragraph can summarize what "sexual liberation" is in a very general way, and it is more appropriate to look at this paragraph from the perspective of "sexual liberation". However, I do not deny that there was love between Mark and Dalia. In the end, Mark died of a police shooting, and the heroine was also very sad. Maybe the love between the hero and the heroine is not love at first sight, but an aftertaste. , When the two separated, and finally the love between heaven and man was separated.
At the end of the film, Dalia returned to the company, met her boss, and the dream was over. Like the dialogue at the beginning of the film, the dialogue discussed by the capitalists at the end is like a bullet that shattered Dalia's mirror of dreams, allowing her to return to reality and fall into the abyss again, but after experiencing the stories that happened along the way, After experiencing that "Zabliski Corner Carnival" and experiencing a love that ended before it started, Dalia changed completely. She was no longer a female secretary, but more like a female secretary. The female gunman, just like the heroine in Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West", in the end she "participated in the revolution" and in the "revolution" blew up the company's villa, the city, and the flood of daily life This is a revolution against the commodity economy and a wild recovery.
From "Zoom In" to "Zabliski Corner", Antonioni has obviously changed a lot. Although it is still the same style, the same blurry, and the same erratic, the final explosion declared that Antonioni was no longer watching. , no longer hesitating, but shouting, no, it is an explosion, an explosion that is completely irrational!
But Antonioni is a philosopher, and philosophers not only hold high the flag, but reflect as well. In 1972, Antonioni came to the other side of the world - the mysterious China. China was a more "primitive" and "pure" country than the Western world at that time (many people in the West think so, even now) , but is this "original and pure" true? No! As long as there is human society, there are no primitive emotions. When Antonioni looked at China rationally and completely and truly reflected the face of China, China began to reveal its impure corners...
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