2021.8.12 Film Archive Xiaoxitian
Antonioni precisely touches on the crisis of modernity faced by individuals, which is embodied in the state of dissociation, indifference, anxiety, fear, and powerlessness presented by individuals in the context of intimacy. Wanting to possess but not being satisfied, wanting to ask the truth about love but willing to be deceived, avoidance of communication, long silences, tempered passions, disgust for self-indulgence in sentimental emotions. These emotional experiences above lead to a disappearance in this film. When a person is bizarrely evaporated from society, the middle-class response to this is to continue to seek new "adventures", that is, derailment. This is exactly what Baudelaire said about "discovering eternity in an instant", a boring leisure life, God no longer exists, and can only rely on lust to drive the existence of life, and the object of lust is no longer a fixed and unique object, only the other full of uncertainty. So, for Sandro and Claudia, Anna's whereabouts are no longer important, what matters is their own whereabouts. Where should they go, in the process of searching for Anna, they themselves disappeared, including their love for Anna in the past, because they went mad because they searched endlessly for the truth and only found that "nothingness" is the real truth, Because the world is completely unknowable, the only thing we know is nothing.
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