The second Antonioni movie I've watched since Blow Up. The push and pull of the dialogue between the male and female protagonists is really interesting. If you chew it slowly, you can think about the temptation between the two, the increase in affection and the strong.
“I don’t see why we should waste time like this.” “Neither do I.”
"You're already here." "I've been here 15 minutes." "I thought I'd be early." "But I got here first."
"Two people shouldn't know each other too well if they want to fall in love. But then maybe they shouldn't fall in love at all."
“I feel like I'm in a foreign country.” “Funny. That's how I feel around you.”
"I wish I didn't love you, or that I loved you much more."
Antonioni seems to like to let the characters enter the picture from the lower left or lower right corner, and he doesn't seem to care about the visual relationship from far to near or from near to far when cutting.
At the end and in several places in the film, I am a little fascinated by the following shots of ordinary people, like a code that cannot be solved. After losing a lot of money in the stock market trading place, the old man sat down in the cafe, ordered a glass of mineral water, drew flowers on paper and left, just like a mystery. The Italian stock exchange in the 1960s also played an important role in the film. Although I didn't know anything about it, I gradually understood the world established by this place and the "deadly" it brought people. "Consequences of Attraction.
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