"The more one loves, the stronger the absurd."
"Adventures" is the "estrangement of love" that is like a stranger, and it is the incommunicability of emotions, as Sartre said - the other is hell, a self-made barrier between people, even if it is love at first sight Those who are also inevitably fall into the cage of hostility and suspicion, drinking alone in the absence of love in an unstoppable alienation.
"Alienation is an eternal theme in Antonioni's films. Whether it is the environment and people, people and the world, or people and people, people and self, there is a constant separation between them, a constant alienation. There is no interest, insecurity, insecurity in themselves and everything around them, and 'love incompetence' makes them unable to love or get the love that satisfies them, so alienation and loneliness are often the end result." Missing Anna's Love is missing. Because of Anna's disappearance, the short-lived encounters during the search are also passionate and estranged. All people have never had true love, and can only drink strange love fantasies in their exhausted blindness. As a master of neo-realism, the characters in Antonioni's images have no final ending and belonging. At the end of "Adventures", Anna's whereabouts and the final belonging of Claudia's love all show an unfinished state. The dense rope nets at the time of the marriage proposal have fully demonstrated the separation space between the two, while the volcano in the distance in the ending paragraph and the huge concrete wall that occupies half of the picture in the vicinity further demonstrate the incompatible opposition and the inexorable loneliness between the two. This is Antonioni's best landscape narrative, giving tension and emotion to the space and architecture that belong to the background, participating in the emotional externalization and spiritual expression of the characters, showing the indifference of material worship and isolated by modern space.
"Life is fractured, not the constant conflicts and coincidences of classic narratives. Life does not have a fixed ending, it is extended and needs no conclusion." Modernist narratives are mainly about the presentation of stories, using a The way of mocking presents artificial, stylized images, and both the director and the camera recognize the existence of the self, and transmit this existence to the self-conscious audience, creating a sense of alienation. The conflict in "Adventures" is ambiguous, and this vague conflict is irreconcilable and clueless at the same time. All the characters seem to try to construct a definite relationship: lover, friend, lover...but this relationship is extremely uncertain, full of fractured unease. "Emotion is a seed that holds the possibility of germinating other arts of thought and other hopes, but it is abused, as are nostalgia, habits, beliefs, beauty and hope." Antonioni was fascinated by these relationships, but He maintains a passionate attitude of alienation, like the black sheep in neorealism, and uses this alienation to establish a complete "nothingness" in human life. The seemingly unnecessary empty documentary footage in the film: rough seas, whirlwinds, and blockbuster landscapes completely shatter traditional love myths. For example, in "Adventures", after Anna disappeared, everyone went to the island to look for it. The loud noise of the waves hitting the rocks and the roar of the whirlwind easily covered the communication between people, the kind of loneliness swallowed by the sudden disappearance. Undoubtedly terrifying and irresistible. This objective and calm mirror language constantly highlights the fragile relationship between the characters, the inability to communicate, the eternal loneliness, and the succumbed to alienation.
Love is like a deserted island, disappearing will not bring new hope, constantly wandering in strangeness and loneliness.
Adventures, Antonioni's Poetics of Ruins.
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