There is no absolute right choice

Jadon 2022-03-25 09:01:15

Surrounded by crowded crowds and images of standing cities, people fall into a state of troubled helplessness. Antonioni's space is full of expansion and erosion, as if the modern social situation is trying to strip people's emotions away. The dazzling modern life is to develop material enjoyment to the extreme, leaving only the desolation of the heart. This separation of spirit and flesh, the exclusion and oppression of the inner world by the outer space, form an extremely contradictory state of the characters. Antonioni's characters are always looking for something, and although the result is mostly nothing, this search emotion always spreads in the film. The answer is nonexistent. Just like the missing girlfriend in "Adventures" and Godot in "Waiting for Godot", they are all dilemmas that modern people cannot get out of.

Nico 2022-03-20 09:02:23

At the end of the film, the physical struggle after love dries up can only highlight the impoverishment and incompetence of desire itself. In traditional society (male power), this is actually male incompetence, but in modern society, it is actually a sexual incompetence after maximizing desire.