Anyone watch the movie Blow Up? I heard it's similar to movies like Blow Out and The Conversation in its plot of "professional discovers a murder"
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The only other Antonioni movie I've seen is L'Aventura, while drunk, at 19 in college
No one fricks with this movie?
Don't talk like a Black
With that rule, most of slang from the 20th century can be ruled out as well
Yeh, I like the movies it inspired a bit more, Antonioni isn't one of my favorites. I prefer filmmakers like Bresson
>With that rule, most of slang from the 20th century can be ruled out as well
not that guy but you know the difference
Also:
>most
pls ber serious
just be yoursekf, buddy.
there's no need for carefully typed Ebonics.
I literally just wrote some random statement to bump the thread and some /misc/lack couldn't help but bring up race. But yeh, please discuss that instead of the movie, that will make Cinemaphile better.
>random
you made specific choices, that's not random. must have felt awkward, typing that.
Frick off
it's good but I much prefer Red Desert, L'Aventurra, The Passenger, La Notte, L'Eclisse, Il Grido.
I remember enjoying L'Aventurra, but I need to give it a rewatch, and check out La Notte and L'Eclisse as well.
It invented the genre, but it's much less straightforward than the movies it inspired (those being great, too). It's Antonioni, after all, he exists to frustrate the audience. Watch it as homework if you like movies like the other two, but expect to not enjoy it that much.
I watched it because of The Yardbirds
I watched Zabriskie Point because of Pink Floyd
neither flick would I rewatch
I enjoyed The Conversation but I did not understand Blow-Up at all.
Yeah looking at contemporary reviews it seems like it was meant to comment on the emptiness of the 1960s urban lifestyle but it just comes across as boring. There's a funny Pauline Kael review about it (one of the few of hers I like): https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/movies/blow-up-pauline-kael/
>https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/movies/blow-up-pauline-kael/
pretty good, thanks
>Pauline Kael review boils down to "I'm the smartest person I know."
Many such cases.
I think the main character of the conversation is more relatable to the type of person that browses Cinemaphile, to be quite honest
Yeah
>No real friends
>Horrible with women
>Constantly guilty
>Only has his job
The only difference is he's actually very good at what he does
>implying Cinemaphileners have jobs or play saxophone
Checkmate
it's kino
Definitely has it's own style that's instantly recognizable
An example of what I wrote above, the movie expertly portrays a rendition of Swinging London
Yeh, the main plot of the movie is very sparse, I can tell those movies took the murder part of it and expanded it to become the main focus. I very much enjoy the slice of life style of it though. I do with there were some more interesting characters that had significant screen time.
If you think you will just be watching "Blow Out but in the 60s" you will be very dissapointed. It's more of an art movie, and it kind of sucks.
I dug it, especially the first third of the movie which is surprisingly funny.
I understand what you mean, the first third of the movie captured my attention the most, and I really enjoyed the physicality of those photoshoots, along with how awkward the english seemed amongst each other.
Another aspect of this movie I enjoyed was the day in the life setting, really gives you a great snapshot into the setting, which is almost as important as another character in this movie. A strange sense of hopelessness in it, in the main mystery, as well as the way the characters sort of languidly interact with each other. A real slow burn of a movie, I may give it another rewatch to see how my opinions change.