The Night: Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear Award for Best

Isac 2022-08-08 20:30:50

I like my wife Lydia wandering in the city alone, the sun is dazzling, and her heart is cold and lonely. The photography of the film is beautiful, the black and white textured shots are slow and quiet, and each frame is a photo with a story. I have never been so calm as to watch a very slow literary film. Men and women who respect each other in a marriage are afraid of being hot when they are close, and cold when they are far away. The woman said helplessly that I don't love you anymore, and then read a beautiful and passionate love letter, the man was surprised, "Who wrote it?" The woman said - you! Great movie!

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Extended Reading
  • 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.

La Notte quotes

  • Giovanni: Life would be tolerable if not for its pleasures.

    Lidia: Is that your line?

    Giovanni: No, I no longer have ideas. Only memories.

  • Beatrice: Don't stare at me like that. I know I'm showing signs of aging. You've improved a lot, you know. You use to be so plain. You don't mind me saying that, do you?

    Lidia: I've heard it many times.