In fact, this is a great prophecy of the times.
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The film heralded the age of punk that followed
Sabrina 2022-03-13 08:01:01
It seems that at the time, Antonioni's failed work actually grasped the pulse of the times to better understand this film. In the late 1970s, the decline of the hippie culture and movement in the name of love and peace, and the accompanying convenience. It was violent resistance, smashing everything, and this was the punk culture that followed. It can be said that this is an elegy for the fading of the hippie culture, especially the part of having sex in the desert. The punk culture that followed was more about sex and violence, and it was a violent era. The era of big capitalists has indeed not ended, but has intensified. Therefore, in the end, the illusion in Dalia’s eyes came to an abrupt end, which also heralded the continued upgrading and expansion of Western capitalism after the 1970s. The intensification of the conflict between the rich and the poor in the 1970s and 1980s was also an incentive for the explosion of punk culture bred by hippies. Yes, those scenes of destruction in Dalia's dreams, even if they are illusions, are reality. The advance and revolutionary nature of the film could only lead to its box-office fiasco and criticism from critics at the time.
In fact, this is a great prophecy of the times.
In fact, this is a great prophecy of the times.
Extended Reading
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Male White Radical Student #1: What was any revolutionary without other people? What was Lenin without his organization? What was Castro without his organization? Even anarchists spent most of their lives talking in meetings, for christ's sake.
Male Black Radical Student #1: You ought to take him and go back and start teaching him out of the Red book or somthin'. Teach him the first page. It teaches about if there's going to be a revolution there must be a revolutionary party. That bourgeois, bourgeoisie individualism that he's endorsing, man, is going to get him killed.
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Cop: [Mark being arrested] Name?
Mark: Karl Marx.
Cop: How do you spell it?
Mark: M-A-R-X.
[Cop types: Marx Carl]