On the surface, Antonioni is a romance director...but he doesn't seem to believe in love. It is also difficult for me to say whether what he describes is love or not. The passion component is large, but intimacy and commitment are almost invisible. If it's still love, it's just passion-driven love. Passion is the least reliable and the most variable.
Passion-driven love is in such a cycle: once the passion fades, any recovery will be of no use, and the relationship will inevitably collapse; on the other hand, when passion emerges, there is no such thing as being unreasonable and unreasonable. things; because passion will eventually dry up, so passionate love will eventually fade away. In a word, passion is a very exogenous thing, it has any disturbance (shock), and those who are in it can only obey (comply), and it is impossible to retain or suppress it.
At the mercy of passion, one feels trapped in a labyrinth, chasing and exhausting; eventually the passion dissipates and no one can find true love. And love, the most noble of human actions, can convince us that life is better than death. Antonioni's view of love and even action is very passive, and he is very pessimistic about the fate of mankind.
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