The Red Desert is a modernist film directed by Italian director Antonio. In this film, the director shows a strong irrationalism, aiming the camera at the inner world of people and seriously discussing the poverty of the human spiritual world. The panic and emotional anxiety of modern existence.
This film shows a case of psychological abnormality, taking the heroine's mental state and confusion as the central content of the performance. His illness is caused by a kind of loneliness in life with ordinary meaning, whether it is the government or the No lover can get him out of this loneliness. The decoction pieces confuse your hero's heart. Combining the observation with the rapid development of industry, it shows the increasingly serious materialization of Western society. Xinxiang is a person who has lost self-awareness and is completely remorseful. alienation. In this film, Antonioni uses the background as an important ideographic element, and the composition of the picture with the style of abstract painting plays a huge role in highlighting the chaotic and unstable state of the heroine. In terms of color, he creatively uses color as an ideographic color, which is no longer the color in simple online decoction pieces that are no longer natural, and basically consists of red, yellow, gray and blue. Yellow is the factory, the smoke from the chimney is the destruction of civilized industrial civilization, the symbol of the human living environment. The real space with horror tinges is both poetic and Antonio on the hallucinations of psychiatrists. You yourself explained that the so-called red desert is a bloody pine tree covered with human bones.
Antonio, your exploration of a colorful, but abnormal normative reality In the history of film, Guangzhou is praised by film historians as the first color film in the aesthetic sense. His famous trilogy of middle-class cities, "Adventures" and "Night" "Eclipse" is the application of calm and delicate technique and detached and elegant aesthetic style in Chinese, and your Italian film has achieved a respectable position in the field of modernist film.
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