photography is like making love

Johann 2022-03-20 09:01:57

Shooting that scene at the beginning is like making love, but it's a thought-provoking film, and sometimes we find out the truth, but we can't do anything to pretend we haven't seen anything. The director himself put it this way
: Zooming in on the surface of things around me, I want to see the truth about them."
"If we go deeper, we may touch the truth of things, and things that we can't see with the naked eye will appear. I always don't believe what I see. , because I keep imagining what's behind it."
"There's a moment when we get hold of the truth, but it's fleeting. That's what the Amplified part is about."

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Extended Reading
  • Elfrieda 2022-03-23 09:02:10

    The camera was addictive to use, and it was used to replicate the world when the human landscape began to change at a dizzying rate. The scene captured by the viewfinder is a sign of the past presence, and even because of its complete time and space cut, it will be regarded as a substitute for memory. But if you only want to appear through the lens, relying on the image of a specific scene frame, complete the presence, and confirm the existence, then it is inevitable to return to Plato's cave as the way to end.

  • Ransom 2022-03-21 09:02:11

    Like hypnotic magic, the people in the film are awakened from a state of emptiness and boredom, detached from reality, and then fall asleep again. In that clip, which is constantly pulled in and zoomed in between the photo and the photographer, it doesn't matter whether the murder exists or not, the frenzy is the same as Antonioni's process of building the character. In the ending, a group of white-faced clowns play tennis that doesn't exist, and he disappears between frames like the women. Existence is always mysterious.

Blow-Up quotes

  • [first lines]

    Mime: Give me your money. Do it.

  • [last lines]

    Ron: What did you see in that park?

    Thomas: Nothing... Ron.