It seems that in the end, Antonioni did not give a clear answer or prove that love really exists, even if it does not exist. Maybe he has been completely disappointed in the love and marriage of modern people, but not to despair, I don't know "On the Clouds". Is the fourth story of "Days" an answer or a hint that the handsome boy confessed to the girl, but she told him that the next day she was going to put on a black veil and serve God, and she gave herself to God. Does this count as the final spiritual destination for Antonioni, who has always claimed that he does not need God.
I want to talk about "Night". I think few people see the pathetic restraint at the end of Lydia's reading of a love letter her husband once wrote without feeling moved and shocked. Did we ever really love each other so much? Why don't you remember those touching words pouring out from the tip of your pen? It turns out that love really faded as we feared and foreseen, and the moment we stepped on it was clearly grief After the cold eyes, now, I just hope you say "I don't love you anymore" is enough. That scene, that piece of lawn under the long-range lens, made the passage of time so softly. In any case, Lydia and Giovanni are no longer in love. If, like this movie, the enthusiasm and turbulence of the past are hidden under loneliness, and all the fiery and vigorous loves are disillusioned into the most complete emptiness and burnout in the end, the more passionate and empty, should we choose mediocrity from the beginning? , so mediocre to the end. At that high-level banquet, the sudden power failure and torrential rain made this group of intellectuals, who usually sat upright, run wild like lions out of their cages. People under the anesthesia of alcohol games enjoyed a night of arrogance in this magnificent palace. Happy, the night ends. The jazz outside the door in the morning reminds people to get up and face their broken lives again, and the benches by the pond are full of sobbing ladies and echoes of last night's noise. Lydia Giovanni's love also ended in the early morning dew, a false redemption.
The fate of Lydia Giovanni, the director borrows Valentina's phrase "selfish but compassionate" may explain the fate of such intellectuals, compared to the young girl Valentina who has not yet entered into marriage However, it is commendable to have such a clear understanding of love. Her character should give the director his own views on love and marriage from a female perspective. After Giovanni's two failed infidelity attempts, Lydia defends her pride and face in a marriage that has been ruined by her husband by rejecting an affair at a banquet. After her friend Tommaso died, she suddenly realized that the love she had never had had instantly become eternal and would not disappear, which made her see her marriage more clearly. Perhaps, in the relationship between the sexes, once there is a motive for communication, the resulting communication may be in vain. Most people will only create more trouble in these fake communication. The ability to repair must be far better than communication. Like Valentina saying "When I try to express love, it disappears".
After watching most of Antonioni's films, I was gradually tamed, used to and appreciated his way of de-plotting, restoring people and objects themselves, and letting them express emotions, atmosphere and space concepts. This should be what he thought of. The concept of "truth" that is promoted and revered. In the film, Lydia escapes from the crowd and wanders aimlessly on the street, staring at the old woman eating ice cream on the side of the road, smiling at the toll collector on the street and the strange man behind the glass window. The indescribable intimacy and tacit understanding, and the estrangement of calmly chatting with the person beside the pillow in the bar, in my opinion, are both interesting portrayal contrasts, the characters walking under the vision of the cold main body of the building, and the falling wall. Walls, clocks in ruins, young people fighting in groups, after they have been restored to themselves, they constitute a testimony to the passage of time and emotions. This kind of depiction of the passage of time between fingers feels more desolate than the consumption of tearing faces. Now I can slowly understand " The meaning of the 10-minute-long empty scene at the great ending of Eclipse, no other director can express in such a cool and mean way, only Antonioni.
But having said that, the disappearance of love is not so terrible, and it is not a tragic story. In the end, we will still repeat the same life as the first half of our life and the first half of our life to spend the rest of our days, but this will slowly strip out the real characters for you. The low-spirited alienation emanating from the scene can be frustrating and powerless. Mr. Song couldn't stop Miss Dong's desire to age, so he was desperate. Fortunately, today you comforted me with an ordinary sentence I love you, so that I would not be so desperate.
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