Red Desert Comments

  • Assunta 2022-03-23 09:03:04

    Antonioni's color films, the colors are as imagined. At the beginning, the white fog sprayed from the factory, Vitty's return and confusion in the fog, and the positions of the actors in the fog are all dazzling. The soundtrack (or rather the background sound) is also amazing, more like the voice in the head of a woman who is close to a nervous breakdown. The real emotional world is the barren red desert, and the pursuit is clear water and blue sky, where "everyone is singing". || 2019.01.19...

  • Major 2022-03-23 09:03:04

    The composition of the picture is very beautiful, the tone of the film is deserted, and the colors are diverse, all of which are quite meaningful. The consumption and pollution of the environment caused by industrial civilization is shocking. The surrounding dead silence is barren and morbid, and the indentation and panic caused in the heart of the heroine in the film are evoked by Monica Vitti with a nervous and moving expression. The performance is so eloquent, and watching it, I feel more...

  • Jovanny 2022-03-23 09:03:04

    De-dramatic, extremely obscure. Huge industrial facilities give people a sense of fear. In comparison, people are so small. People are integrated into the background, and the picture has a sense of unity. Utopia in the heart and industrial pollution in reality, the desolation of the apocalypse, the torn heart under industrialization. Unrestrained gatherings, diseased ships approaching, people gradually entering the thick fog, children's strange leg problems, and resistance to courtship. Fear...

  • Reginald 2022-03-22 09:02:40

    4.5, the formal contribution is still outstanding. The out-of-focus technique and extreme use of color create an illusion of absurdity and confusion in the post-industrial age, like a prophecy. The story is no longer important, and the narrative can also be put aside. The red desert does not exist in reality or in the movie. It is just an emotion. It is in the heart, in the sensitive and alienated heart of the heroine... In short, this is very...

  • Wade 2022-03-21 09:03:00

    Paint-like high-contrast and low-saturation colors have even become a distinct symbol to participate in the narrative language. Together with the avant-garde industrial background sound and picture counterpoint and the big vision, the red that can be seen everywhere is the anxiety about the industrialized society and the individual’s relationship with the outside world. A contradictory portrayal of alienation, with a sexual signified at the same time. There seems to be no one better suited to...

  • Herminio 2022-03-21 09:03:00

    The characters in Antonioni's films must be viewed with schizophrenia. At the same time, their mind and body are separated, and their derailment is a second derailment. Antonioni uses color to express the alienation of people and abandons the dramatic conflict, which is unreasonable for those who are addicted to capitalism and relish it. For those who are used to watching Hollywood blockbusters, they are either aphasia or cursing. As Antonioni's first color film, the film gives a sense of...

  • Gracie 2022-03-21 09:03:00

    Looking at it again, the desert is nothing but the human heart, the relationship is a false proposition, and only loneliness is eternal. The echoes of the environment and emotions are at their peak, and the anxious electronic sound builds a hopeless puzzle in the industrial...

  • Zita 2022-03-21 09:03:00

    #AntonioniFilmfest# The confusion, anxiety and anxiety of the post-industrial age. The use of color and music is...

  • Gwendolyn 2022-03-20 09:02:36

    The avant-garde likes to shoot neurotic people, because any abnormal reactions and behaviors are reasonable. For screen construction, it is also easier to display effects. I don't like it. It's not that I don't understand, but I feel boring. I still like to watch movies with reasonable logic, unbroken thinking, and all motives and behaviors within the scope of common...

  • Luciano 2022-03-20 09:02:36

    Perhaps this is the definition of depression. The use of color and sound is really compelling (except for the color that everyone is analyzing, it is the sound that impresses me more!), it is no wonder that it is the first color film in the true sense-using color to describe the psychology. . Monica Witty is the true goddess, and Richard Harris has changed the character of a British gangster and has a handsome face like a statue. ....

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  • Paula 2022-03-21 09:03:00

    A fantastical piece of history gone by

    At the beginning of the film, the scene of the booming modern industry in the 1960s and 1970s was presented. Blast furnaces spewing flames, chimneys emitting thick smoke, and constant noise in the ears were once symbols of advanced industrial civilization. The oppressive colors are even more...

  • Dane 2022-04-19 09:02:43

    Personal opinion (mistaken)

    The heroine is very contradictory. After entering the ward, she thought she was the same because she heard the description of others, so she was very anxious, and the patients around her were very ill, which led to the illusion that she also thought she was very ill, the doctor Telling her that...

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...