It is true that he is a master, but it does not mean that each of his works is a master. Today's "Infinite Spring on the Dangerous Peak" is a failed work.
Looking at this once avant-garde and radical film with today's eyes is a bit ridiculous. The film has little storytelling, with Antonioni's usual looseness. A boy, a left-wing radical youth, took part in a street riot that was brutally suppressed by the police. He fled in a hurry, fled to a private airport, stole a plane and took it to the sky (so easy to fly?).
A girl is the ambiguous secretary of a wealthy boss. One day she didn't want to go to work, so she drove to a small town to find a so-called "spiritual master", but she was rejected by the locals and chased by the "child gang" in the small town. hit, had to run away.
The man and woman were flying and galloping in the desert, and the director forced them to meet bluntly in the remote Zabriskie Point (an Indian relic). The two suddenly became sexually interested in the Gobi Desert. As soon as they introduced each other, they immediately stripped off. Clothes "rolling donkeys" in the soil, hippie-style music, dazzling scorching sun, and sand all over their mouths, they have the illusion of primitive communism. There are countless donkeys rolling around in the mountains and valleys. The director's whim Make the audience dumbfounded.
After rolling, the two became interested in graffiti again, and an old man with paint came from out of nowhere to help them paint the plane with fancy and vulgar patterns. The work was completed, and the two comrades went their separate ways. The boy continued to fly the stolen plane, but was stopped by the police, who shot him to death.
The girl drove to the villa building where she was working, and the company executives were planning business operations to provide this real estate project to successful people in the city. The girl heard the report on the radio that the hijacking militant (boy) was killed, and saw the beautiful and comfortable life of the boss and a group of big capitalists. The villa exploded violently with those modern objects, and it was smashed, fried from various angles, fried into flowers, fried into slag, fried into powder, fried, fried! (The director's angry youth will not stop until 5 minutes of rage) The whole play is over.
Antonioni's extreme left-wing thinking still seems surprising to this day. He named the hero Karl Marx; he hated the capitalist way of life in pursuit of material pleasure; I want to destroy everything in material civilization through violence, and re-create a society where the world is harmonious and returns to the original. Please, these thoughts of yours seem to be the conjectures of rich people who are tired of eating mountain delicacies and full of food and want to ask for trouble and find their own way of death!
The male and female protagonists of this film were the most advanced revolutionary youths at that time personally selected by Antonioni, but they played extremely badly, without a trace of the crazy passion they should have.
"Infinite Spring on the Dangerous Peak" is one of Antonioni's few English-language films, and probably his worst. Although the movie is not worth watching, through this film, you can get a glimpse of the ideology of the 1970s and the spiritual pursuit of the hippie generation. At that time, the young people in China were also crazy and radical. It seems that Marx was the spiritual idol of the whole world at that time.
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