"Blow up"
Lack of understanding of the basic era background and regional customs background of the film may lead to a deviation in the understanding of the film.
1. The camera is a power, and so is sex.
A photographer with a camera in his hand can humiliate his subjects, intentionally or unintentionally, in a sexual way. At the beginning of the chapter, the photographer kept teasing her with lust when shooting female models, riding on him, and facing a group of models fiercely and rudely. When some young models came to the door, the photographer rudely took off their clothes.
But what is interesting is that the photographer later saw the model who was supposed to be in Paris in the place where he smoked marijuana. The model deceived him. Although he deceived the photographer, the situation of the model was not better, and he was still by the agent's side.
2. People with pale faces at the beginning and end.
Maybe some kind of British custom. But the car looks like they're clawing at the truck, and in addition to their last non-physical performance playing tennis, the sound of their camera is loud. They filled the whole truck and filled our ears. I always thought they looked like a whole load of junk...no specific reason, just gut feeling. You can't see people in the distance, it's more like garbage.
At the beginning, they were cheerfully asking passersby for money on the street. The director interspersed the scenes of the group and the protagonist walking off the train, as if there was some connection between the two. Maybe it was his chaotic spiritual world? I'm not very sure. It ends with their no-object performance playing tennis, which is not only non-object, but also frighteningly quiet. At first, the director also shot them from the perspective of a bystander. Later, the director also joined their farce and filmed them in a way of shooting a real tennis match.
At the end, a group of weird people suddenly looked at the protagonist and asked him to pick a ball that didn't exist. This scene made people shudder. The protagonist picked up the ball and threw it back. At this time, there was the sound of a racket hitting the ball in his mind. Are these the hallucinations of the protagonist?
The last scene is the big vision. The protagonist is shot overhead in the center of the green grass. A small person is a drop in the ocean. Even with all the strange images in your mind, in the eyes of the world you are just a tiny speck of dust.
3. Main plot: The photographer and the woman in the couple who were photographed and the murder.
Sex and death are inescapable topics. I don't quite understand this plot. But one of the compositions that attracts me is the photographer and the woman behind the purple background paper, creating an ambiguous atmosphere, but the woman immediately left the space within the purple paper after she got the film, although she came back and kissed The photographer, but at this time she is outside the purple, and the photographer is inside the purple. The purple background paper cut the two of them out of it. The woman has nothing to do with the photographer, but she still chooses to use her sexuality to get the film back.
Purple is a sex symbol in this film, and the photographer has sex on it with two small models.
Finally, when the photographer passed by the live house, he also saw several girls wearing skirts of the same color.
4. Some small details of the magic strokes.
One of my favorite episodes is the photographer going to the live house. At first, I thought it was very strange, why is it not popular abroad to dance while listening to rock? Later, I looked at it and found that the color tone was not quite right. It was gray and not romantic at all. Everyone was dumbfounded, as if in a meeting, there was a couple jumping around in the crowd, wearing bright colors. Later, the guitarist smashed the guitar like a mental illness because the protagonist destroyed it and the sound was not good. When the wreckage of the guitar was thrown, the crowd moved, like fish snatching food in the water. As a result, the protagonist who was not interested at all grabbed it, and immediately threw it on the side of the road. Another person came to the side of the road, picked it up, took a look, and threw it again. This part is so funny, so amazing. Really like.
And the last time the protagonist walked into the green park, the angle of the camera connected the big trees into a gate, as if the protagonist walked into a garden. There is a faint sense of illusory paradise.
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