Antonioni's Zoom, a film about photography. The intervention of photography has disturbed our life violently, but does photography record reality, is it important to be realistic and objective in photography, even what we see in our eyes is true, or is life itself true? The film raises questions. The objective discussion of documentary in the photography world has nothing to do with this film, and will not be discussed here.
The male protagonist is a commercial photographer. Once, he secretly photographed a couple having an affair in the park. When he returned to the studio to develop the negatives, he noticed a detail. Through group photo comparison and continuous enlargement of the photos, the blurred silver halide In the imaging particles, a hand holding a pistol was found, which accidentally connected a murder case. He told his friend about the incident, and the friend asked him what he saw at the scene, but he didn't see anything. In fact, he only discovered the case through the camera. He couldn't answer whether the case was real or not. When looking for the body, even the body no longer exists. Was this murder the actor imagined himself through the photo? Or did it happen, but no one believed and cared so much that it became less real? He was puzzled.
Interestingly, at the end of the film, he saw a group of weirdos playing tennis balls that didn't exist. When the "tennis" hit behind the hero, he put down the camera representing "record reality" to pick up the non-existent tennis ball and put it back. I threw myself into the performance of the "fake", so even the truth itself was denied. From the moment the murder in the photo is discovered, the male protagonist deviates from his daily state, has doubts about his real existence, and is constantly denied by friends and enemies, resulting in a gap with this rational world. Director Antonioni describes the process of a person being alienated here.
This "Zoom Blow-up" develops from the realism style at the beginning to the suspenseful narrative in the middle, and then from the suspense to the absurdism at the end, with unique structure and strong storytelling, and proposes the existentialism of "what is real" Thinking is a very good-looking and interpretable film, and it is also the most commercial in Antonioni's works. The fashion photography, costumes and sets shown in the film are full of design sense, the photography composition is beautiful, and the confusing atmosphere of the film is enhanced by jazz and psychedelic rock, and there are also guest appearances by yard birds. And through the perspective of the male protagonist, the British style of the 1960s was recorded.
Finally, let's introduce another film, "Blow out" directed by De Palma and starring John Travolta, which borrows this story, but is adapted into a purely commercial film with a completely different style. The protagonist From photographer to film sound engineer, the plot focuses on murder. The camera language and editing of "The Fierce Line" are very powerful, and the pictures are full of beauty, especially at the climax, the tense and exciting suspense seems to be able to grab the audience's throat, fully telling you why Palma can be called a contemporary Hitchcock! Public number: Shadow Dream Space
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