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Marcella 2022-03-20 09:01:57

When pixels become infinite, and are put to infinity, things will go into chaos. Few people can characterize the event itself and its essence. Even the woman and man who are most inseparable from the time (and the man who was "killed"), the confused male protagonist can no longer find a way to enlarge and explore. Meaning, the crumbling shards of the line between reality and fantasy shook his world violently. For all kinds of people, the meaning and value of things can change at any time - that guitar handle, one second people want to die for it, the next second it is thrown on the street like garbage. The guitar handles, the trees and grass in the park, and the "killed man" can't speak, but the countless mouths of the public are gushing out, and the meaning of countless things evaporates and disappears here. Why are women in such a hurry? Why did she look uneasy in the direction of the grass? Did someone get killed? If the answer to these questions is "unknown," then the elements that make up the film's indifference may come to light. What supports this world of nothingness, and what makes those young people happily play tennis that does not exist? It may be absurd, it may be turning a blind eye. The male protagonist finally picked up the ball and threw it back to the tennis court. The momentary sense of boundless nothingness replaced the sense of absurdity, as if he himself was not standing here at all.

Full of absurdity, daigo-style negativity. At least that's my feeling. Whether the theme is biased towards negativity remains to be seen.

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Extended Reading
  • Therese 2021-12-22 08:01:14

    #重看#@电博; 4.5; good flavor in the 1960s, anti-war, cannabis party, the yardbirds came to add color; the abstract function of art works out of appreciation, the utilitarian nature of zeroing creates nothingness in daily situations; long Absurd days and nights, he has a huge sense of surrealism. When he picks up an invisible tennis ball, he has melted into the "vacuum" world that he once refused to face.

  • Cary 2021-12-22 08:01:14

    Strongly symbolic paragraphs are connected to form a script that seems to give up the narrative, but the core is clear. I like the director of Antonioni who knows what he wants and what he is doing. The invisible corpse is not recognized, but the non-existent tennis ball becomes the truth; the value that changes with the environment, the guitar handle changes from the target of fighting and looting to the tattered discarded on the street; these are the very inspirational philosophers will think of Allegory. It also discusses the nature of the camera itself, voyeurism and masculinity: the process of constant enlargement refers to the behavior of Peeping Tom; excellent shooting is like a rape, and women are the eternal object of being stared at. This in-depth reflection on the media alone is enough to make the work enter the ranks of the most important works in film history.

Blow-Up quotes

  • Verushka: [long-legged model awaits] Here I am.

    Thomas: Ready?

    Verushka: [foreign accent] I've been ready for nearly an hour.

    Thomas: Good.

    Verushka: I'm catching a plane for Paris at eleven, so I can't...

    Thomas: Can't what?

    Verushka: It doesn't matter.

    Thomas: [regards her over ostrich feathers] Who the hell were you with last night?

    [she smirks and moves on]

  • Patricia: I wonder why they shot him.

    Thomas: I didn't ask.