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In Reply to: Matinee posted by dave c on November 12, 2006 at 18:05:54:
seriously, good reviews. I remember seeing ZP when it first came out and hating it (I love Blow-up and most every other Antonioni film), and as I recall the male lead was a non-actor who it was said had been a carpenter.
My film service still doesn't have it but I'll be revisiting it as soon as it does: I remember ZP as being a bit too preachy and heavy-handed... and I was a hippie.
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I, also in full hippy flowering, also thought it pretty bad at the time, but now with a little detachment from the dress codes of youth, its much easier to appreciate what the audiences didn't get before.
As a property developer I found the contrasting of the desert with the incessant flood of advertising and the developer played by Rod Taylor and his white business friends intent on building what I think is a marina in the desert (could be?) while being surrounded by non-white servants to be more relevant. Sorry, I haven't thought thta last sentence out too well, but its early and I am only just starting the coffee ceremony...
Time has, for me at least, given a different perspective to the film and its very, especially at the start, incoherence can be appreciated as a commentary on the times rather than a fault in itself.
In my mind the explosion at the end is entirely in the girl's mind as her belief in America The Beautiful explodes amongst the violence of the times, but a friend wondered if in fact it was a real bomb planted by the domestic help at the house. In my mind that's a "no" but in the spirit of the 60s, its easy to see the film as expansive (as opposed to merely explosive) and thus multiple readings are actually the point. Its tricky to get yourself into the headspace of intellectual Italian movie folk 40 years ago.
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