Antonioni on the cloud

Scarlett 2022-04-23 07:04:11


"Antonioni on the Clouds"
The people we contact are all potential characters, the expressions on their faces are the expressions, the lines they say are the lines, the places we have been are not just the images, but the rhythm and the rhythm. Tremors, everyday events often have symbolic meanings."
- Antonioni's "Preface" The
first time I knew Antonioni was through Martin Scorsese's narration in the video, he talked about the movies he watched as a child, said This "intellectual director" is full of noise and agitation in his works. We then visited the "China" in his eyes through Antonioni, the Ferrara he sketched, and the American "Zabris Corner" he knew. Antonioni is always accustomed to grasping scattered emotions, people cannot define him with a given procedure or a specific style, like the fog full of his films, he gives us a mystery like Stories and characters, when we see the fog gradually disappearing with great expectations, we see ourselves behind the scenes - a real self that you have never known.
The fate of love
"Days on the Clouds", four love stories, estranged and illusory, when Antonio wrote these four love stories in "A Director's Story", the feelings expressed in the book did not seem so desperate, but, look Looking at the four stories presented on the screen, the most decisive love I have ever seen is the sentence said by the girl who is about to become a nun in the last story-tomorrow, I will enter the convent, In this way, the love story comes to an abrupt end, love loses to the beliefs in people's hearts, and people begin to face their own destiny nakedly. In the total episode, a director is like a god, watching the vicissitudes of the world from the highest point. In "Adventures," the missing person is emotionally entangled with his girlfriend, and the absurd travels of men and women appear to be opinionated on the surface, loyal to love, but no one actually believes that one road will be different from the other. . "Eclipse" begins with a quarrel between a man and a woman. The woman has no hope for the man, and the man tries his best to save it. The men and women in Antonioni's films are always like this, there is no relationship between each other, love is cold and numb, desire has no passion, and there is no basis for activating, people are sensitive, and the piercing wind in other directions blows people all the way. , can't stand still. Isn't love a fragment? Like the beginning of "Zoom", the idleness they show, whether peaceful, happy or painful, is filled with a poetry that reality does not have.
man was thrown into the world
It's hard to imagine that the beautiful Sophie Marceau in "Days on the Clouds" stabbed her father's body wildly again and again with a knife, making her life and her understanding of her own life a new expression. The director uses real people to express their subtle emotions. The people in the film unconsciously compromise with the fate arranged by the director. Perhaps, for Antonioni, the best actor is the one in "China". All actors. "They murdered a man in Ferrara, and they drove the victim with his car into a tributary of the Po..." A time fixed by death that could not be changed, but it also constituted the space of Antonioni's imagination . Like Anna who disappeared in "Adventures", he refused to explain further about Anna's disappearance, but let her start a new story on the clues to find her while she remained missing. Mark in "Zabriskie Point", Giovanni in "Night", Sandro in "Adventures", the director tries to tell the audience that we can live like this, even if the characters are on the bottom edge of society, There is no hope, no doubt, no fear and no malice in the true state of mind. We are still living, and every cell in our body is expanding in the large scale of the world.
him and them
The protagonist in a Bergman, Fellini or Truffaut film is usually faithful to the director's idea. Antonioni was able to pull the thread that bound the actors off the thread and let them wander in people's hearts. Since "Girlfriends" filmed in 1955, people have always been used to discussing Antonioni and Bergman together, especially when Bergman and Antonioni have gone through a life related to the film together. Fellini's character goes to extremes for affection, the mentally handicapped girl in "The Great Road" falls in love with the man in the acrobatic troupe who has nothing, asks him about their love that is more extravagant than bread, she is angry, she is jealous, she makes him Kneeling down on the beach and weeping for her, Antonioni can only make his love like "The Wanderer", isolated and helpless because of the change of love, wandering around, colliding in the world, becoming an emotional obsession The real sadness is that you can't even cry. Fellini is enthusiastic and unrestrained, while Antonioni never seems to roar. You seem to have seen him from a young age. It seems that he has been young and mature. Through "Casanova", it seems that you can see that Fellini's heart has endured for a long time. The source of passion for decay, Antonioni is more like an invisible man hiding quietly in a corner after a revelry. The bitter taste in "The Wanderer" is just like the turbulent undercurrent in the sea, and the surface is still calm, as if nothing has happened. This supernatural attitude also has a nonchalant style in French actor Depardieu's emotional film directed by Truffaut.
"On the Clouds" Antonioni
What is "real"? Some people classify Antonioni as an Italian neorealist director, but Antonioni himself does not agree with this point of view, "I want to bring you into a dream world, where life is more real." When filming "On the Clouds" When such a sentence appears in the tidbits of "Days", those moments when the throat is strangled by the suffocating existence in the real world, those moments when it feels that it can no longer continue, Antonioni in his later years seems to give us a beautiful reverie, as A metaphysician obsessed, he is most interested in the existence in reality that cannot be simply explained by reason and irrationality, such as the fanaticism of practice, etc. Therefore, "Days on the Clouds" has such a surprising ending. From the uncertainty and fragility of the relationship between the sexes in "Adventures" to the helplessness to confirm the truth in "Zoom", Antonioni has been groping for answers with countless questions in the fog. When seeking certain truths, the process of approaching them, the truths are also changing, peeling off layer by layer. When Antonioni passed away and the director played in "Days on the Clouds" turned around, he spied on everyone's living conditions through various windows at the other end of the cloud. At this time, he was no longer the director. , but God.
Antonioni is above the clouds, staring coldly at the love and pain in the world, and thus constitutes his life: through the film, he analyzes the conflicts and struggles of people's inner feelings. The phrase "directing is a special job" from Covic's mouth expresses his own voice, that is, standing high and looking far away, such a person on the cloud will naturally see a unique perspective that we cannot detect. Telling and performing with the camera a suite of desires of contemporary people.
(partial excerpt from the book)

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  • Melyna 2022-03-15 09:01:09

    A mess of literature and art

  • Deonte 2022-03-20 09:02:48

    The magnificence of this film: Antonioni, Wim Wenders, Sophie Marceau, John Malkovich, Vincent Perret, Jean Renault, u2, air... Fortunately, it didn’t cover up the movie. Philosophy

Beyond the Clouds quotes

  • Patricia: [translation] Everything is ridiculous. Love is ridiculous. It has to be said. It's an illusion, a trap. But the trap is mysterious, so we all fall into it. Like stewed prunes!

  • Carmen: Words do us good, even in writing. A woman expects them. She always does.