Red Desert Comments

  • Reva 2022-04-22 07:01:48

    It is indeed a cold, lonely, modern, and pathologically perverted movie. It is often out of place, but if you grasp a little "love incompetence" (the mental sequelae of the heroine's car accident and concussion), you can slowly understand the heroine. The audio-visual language is wonderful, and the color combination is especially good and meaningful. It's a film that is metaphorically obvious, and about modernity and industry and human emotion, no one is more profound than...

  • Nedra 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    Antonioni's first color film, the use of color is extremely bold. - But the narrative is vague and utterly...

  • Miles 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    "...my purpose is to interpret the poetry of a world in which factories and chimneys in flux are beautiful. It is a rich world, full of energy and endurance, as I describe this The first thing neurotic women face is adjustment. People have to adapt in this world, some people can survive, some people can't, probably because they are too attached to the past." -...

  • Destini 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    What is the symbolic meaning of the green dress on the head and tail of the heroine? Is it a symbol of the weak vitality under the ravages of the barbaric modern industry, or is it implying that the heroine chooses to compromise and become peaceful after suffering from the fear and anxiety brought by the cold industrial society, or do you want to say that the heroine has greened her...

  • Alexys 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    The legendary master's first color film. In today's emotional desertification, the way out for love is madness? Is it a compromise? Is it numb? Is it relieved? The feasting, the spring and the white snow, men and women, I think, will be troubled by this problem, maybe they are being troubled, or they have been troubled all the time. The works of the masters have one thing in common: they like to play with metaphors and they like to be vague. Like every windbreaker in Monica, the windbreaker can...

  • Alexandrine 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    The composition and color matching are very literary and artistic. The background of the story takes place in a mining factory area. There are huge machines everywhere, high chimneys with poisonous smoke, and a huge amount of white steam spit out from the pipes. The whole mining area is left behind after mining. The ravines, the constantly steaming surface, the polluted rivers, the sea water, are like a purgatory on earth. The story tells the maddening spirit of the heroine. Her husband is the...

  • Arden 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    Neurotic woman spokeswoman Monica Vitti. . . Antonioni is really suitable to be a fashion designer, taste is so...

  • Madisyn 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    7.5/10 Bokeh, color, noise; the incapacitation of love, the ruins of civilization, the anxiety of modernity; the first "true" color film to construct a psychological reality by artificially recreating the color of the real object through spray painting. Middle class, too middle class [Can the sailor speak (Italian)?]; ]; modernist, too modernist [is Hollywood the other way around? ——Mr. Antonioni, I am more curious about you with the camera behind the lens than the content in the lens....

  • Margot 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    The film uses bold and strong color contrast, strong and noisy dubbing and split and distorted performances to construct an alienated picture of modern industrial civilization for us. The image is a little dull and rigid, and the sweeping shot is always accompanied by dense whistle and machine noise, as well as the tearing representation of the heroine, revealing a disgust and rejection of modern civilization. The industrial background is presented in a negative and disruptive manner, in...

  • Benjamin 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    I didn't understand until I read the introduction ╮(╯▽╰)╭, very characterful shot, Antonioni's first! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !...

Extended Reading
  • Kenton 2022-04-22 07:01:48

    The choice after the contradiction and dislocation of reality and spiritual world

    For nearly 2 hours, I can clearly feel the restlessness of the audience in the theater. The director has said a lot of things, and it is difficult to generalize. However, according to the habit of An-style, there will always be a sublimation scene in the film. It seems to be out of touch with the...

  • Jamir 2022-03-22 09:02:40

    It is human instinct to need a natural good life

    After watching it for an hour, I wanted to fast-forward from time to time, and I had to turn down the volume from time to time (all kinds of background noises were very uncomfortable), and when I was about to give up watching, I was shocked and surprised when I saw the clip of her telling the story...

Red Desert quotes

  • Giuliana: There's something terrible about reality and i don't know what it is. No one will tell me.

  • Giuliana: [voiceover: Giuliana is recounting a fable to her son, as a depiction of the fable is shown on screen] There was a girl who lived on an island. Grownups bored her, and frightened her too. She didn't like kids her age. They all pretended to be grownup. So she was always alone, with the cormorants, seagulls, and wild rabbits.

    Giuliana: [voiceover continues] She'd discovered a small beach far from town, with crystal-clear water and pink sand. She loved that spot. The colors of nature were so beautiful, and there was no noise. She'd leave only when the sun did too.

    Giuliana: [voiceover continues] One morning, a sailing ship appeared. It wasn't like the usual boats that passed by. This was a real sailing ship, the kind that had braved stormy seas all over the world - and who knows, maybe even beyond. Seen from afar, it was a splendid sight. But up close, it took on a mysterious air. There was no one aboard. It paused for a few moments, then turned, and sailed off, as silently as it had come. She was used to people's strange ways, so she wasn't surprised.

    Giuliana: [voiceover continues] But no sooner was she back on shore, when...