Reminds me of Cassowitz's "Face". The film begins with the couple visiting a terminally ill friend in a hospital ward. They are comforting their friend, but they feel a little absent-minded. The couples who look good and separated, forced smiles when they were together, and found their own emotional outlet and solace after separation. Men cheat on various occasions. From the end of "Adventures", Antonioni seems to be not very friendly to men. When a woman learns that her husband is in close contact with a female mentally ill patient in the hospital, there is no trace of sadness or unease. It's already obvious here that their relationship is long gone. The woman swayed aimlessly, and the man went home early. At the evening reception, they still acted separately. The man pursued another young woman. The young woman was the boss' daughter. The man and the daughter kissed ambiguous. The woman saw it but kept silent. And the woman rejected the pursuit of another man on a rainy night, because she did not believe in love, and she was too lazy to let another man into her world, it was very tiring, and it might not make any difference. She just wanted to wander around alone, cut off from the world. Everyone at the party was playing pointless games like dolls. The monologue of the last two people is very classic. The man forgets the love letter he wrote to the woman when he is in love, and the woman still remembers it. This kind of great irony makes the majority of men feel ashamed. In the end, the man kissed the woman excitedly. The woman refused at first, but finally accepted the man's kiss, but they had no feelings at all. Maybe the man was just expressing apology and compensation with the kiss, maybe he still kept his own because of the woman. Inspired by love letters. Just like at the end of "Face", men and women walk back and forth on the stairs of their own homes, there is no dialogue, and the emotional loss and estrangement are clearly visible, but they still return to the same roof, a desperate marriage, and a desperate movie.
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