Analysis of "Red Desert"

Wiley 2022-03-25 09:01:19

(1964) won the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival! This is Antonioni's first color film, and it is also known as "the first true color film" in the history of world film! The film compares the life of an industrialized city and a woman. The loneliness and fear are a portrayal of real life, and they have always used color to express their emotions! In
the film, Antonioni sprayed the garbage on the location and the fruit sold by the hawkers into Gray, Juliana's clothes are mostly black, white and gray, showing the dark side of life, her husband is mainly in brown clothes, which means conservative, the social norm that he has been living in an industrialized city! Including The deception of his son at the end, it's all a real emotion! A bed bar is between Juliana and Corrado, which seems to mean the bottom line of morality! And the green in the film means fear, red It shows the desire for inner love! In the film, the color of the interior and exterior is often changed, as if the main color of the home and factory is cool gray and blue, which is a cold expression of society! The fishing room is made of red siding and white The clapboard, which not only expresses the emotions that emerge, but also expresses the emotional crisis! And when Juliana and Corrado had a relationship, the brown in the original room turned pink, which is the ethics in the peach color! Director Then use subjective color to analyze a corresponding spiritual world, this is a kind of psychological existence in reality, and it is an irresistible inner disease created by society!

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Extended Reading
  • Damon 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    Although it is very experimental and the heroine's mental state is not very pleasing, it is still very good-looking on the whole, which means both color and scene scheduling. The industrial<->alienation duality is further intensified, and the only brightly colored story is heartbreaking. The relationship between people is detached and full of a strong sense of insecurity, and even husband and wife are always likely to fall apart. Need to look again.

  • Kaia 2022-04-23 07:03:54

    It's not that there is no plot, the metaphorical factory industrial society scene is not as much as I thought, the dialogue is more than I thought, I still prefer Ropoulos, the picture is more lyrical than Antonioni.

Red Desert quotes

  • Max: You two would be interested in our conversation. Didn't you tell me about that ointment...

    Orlando: What ointment?

    Max: The one some Africans use... to last longer. What was it again?

    Orlando: Oh, that. It's nothing. Just some crocodile fat and pungent herbs that they smear on before they...

    Mili: Smear on what?

    Linda: Mili, don't play dumb.

    Orlando: It works for hours.

    Max: Hear that, Mili? It works for hours.

    Mili: I don't believe it.

    Corrado Zeller: It's true, it's true. You have no idea what men in other countries do. For example, in Jordan I saw men eat mutton fat and honey for breakfast.

    Max: What about the Chinese? They eat ground rhinoceros horn.

    Ugo: Dried shark fin is an energy booster too.

    Max: I confess that I've tried royal jelly and it works. Right, LInda?

    Giuliana: What's that?

    Ugo: Honey from the queen bee.

    Max: It's rejuvenating. Remember that in your old age, miss.

    Corrado Zeller: Assuming she still wants to make love then.

    Max: What do you say to that?

    Iole: I'd rather do certain things than talk about them.

  • Mili: I hate him.

    Linda: Who?

    Mili: Your husband. He's like a vulture, always ready to swoop down on a factory in bankruptcy or a woman in distress. You'll see. He'll end up getting his way with me too.