As a writer, Pontano should have strong spiritual and value-producing energy, but in real life, he is anchored by a middle-class spiritual crisis and threatened by a powerless anxiety. The reflexive scene revealed the writer's incompetence and sense of powerlessness. When others praised his new book, he just said calmly and calmly: "This book is not worth reading." The writer has an empty heart, an unproductive heart, and he knows that his books are nothing to read. At the same time, their relationship with his wife, Lydia, has faded away with Hua's old age. They carefully pretended to be the roles of true love, hid in a loveless cage, and then fell into the arms of others one night.
Antonioni amplifies the emotional estrangement, anxiety, and indifference between men and women. The couple, Pontano and Lydia, have not yet become grudges, because their status requires them to maintain their dignity as a middle-class, but they both definitely understand the reality that they have no love for each other. Only by exiling oneself into various bourgeois consumption sentiments and scenes, in the materialistic city created by modernity, can one spend the long night and escape reality. It's just that after a long night comes a day, champagne, cigars, dance parties, jazz, nightclubs, etc. etc.•••••• are just some flowing fragments, they cannot weave a person's real and spiritual life, on the contrary, they Together with the condominiums and commercial buildings that squeeze people in the metropolis, they work together to create a false and rootless existence of people.
At dawn, Pontano and Lydia "wake up" in the white light, and they walk to the vast meadow. After all, I have a sense of guilt for my overnight fantasies, so I hug and kiss each other, and say some nonsense like "love you", in order to make life go on, but the longer he and her kiss, the more we are apart. Far. After they took off their masks, they only felt the ending of love dissipated even more painfully, and felt their own emptiness, insignificance, and incompetence. Antonioni mocks them for being middle-class, and for being middle-class too.
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