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A Corpse in a Park...


Emphasizing Reality And Imagination...
"Blow Up " is still gratuitously mysterious, even in comparison with the story by the avant-garde writer Julio Cortar on which it was based. (The movie also heterosexualized the story. )
Like such other "daring " films from the early 1960s such as "Darling " (and "La dolce vita",,, or "Girl on a Motorcycle" ) the "decadence" is the most dated aspect of the film.
What tame (indeed, boring ) orgies! The Merry Pranksters at the beginning and end are also very dated (besides being pretentious symbols ).

During the era 50's and 60's, a series of films began to self-consciously question the filmmaking process itself and even address these questions to the audience itself.
They raised the issue of voyeurism as it relates to cinema, and especially as voyeurism relates to you -- the audience -- watching a film in a theater.

Why we do we watch movies and photograph people?
How are cameras and photography and film related to watching someone's private life, whether it's fictional or real
Where do we draw the line between infringing on someone's rights to photograph them (a la paparozzi)
These issues have become even more poignant in contemporary times, what with the recent (and I think disturbing) advent of strangers inviting us into their homes to view their web-cams, as well as successful television series like British and now American "Survivor " and "Big Brother ".

"Blow-Up" (1966) is one of these films that strives to, well, pose more questions than it answers.. In my mind, it is possibly the most purist film that broaches the subject of voyeurism.. And it's good It seems to captivate people from a broad range of movie taste -- I have recommended it myself to many friends, all of whom have enjoyed it and in turned recommended it to others.....

【Vanessa Redgrave】Blow-Up【David Hemmings】
A Psychedelic Murder Mystery...

This is a complex and ambiguous film about which reams have been written.
There are uncertainties and alternative interpretations, with this film.
Nobody, least of all I, can definitively explain what each nuance of this film signifies.
The broad thematic contours are clear enough, however.
This is a film about metaphysical and philosophical issues, not a simple thriller.
Viewers who approach the film as primarily a thriller are bound to be disappointed.
There is no final resolution to the mystery element.
We can't be certain that a murder occurred, much less why.

The core issue of this film is the nature of reality and the various kinds of representations of reality that comprise individual perception, social consensus, and art.
Ultimate reality is something unknowable.
We may be able to peel away a layer or two of the obscuring factors, but additional ones always remain.
An individual's impression of the reality of an event is colored by his physical position in relation to the event, his belief system, and his biases.
Every personal experience and recollection has a subjective component.
Individual perceptions can acquire increased credibility if validated by the perceptions of other witnesses (and the more witnesses the better ), but even viewpoints validated culturally by an entire population of people are contextually based and may not appear valid to persons from another culture.

Although the script for Blow-Up was based loosely on a short story, Las Babas del Diablo, by Julio Cortazar, the film bears only a loose connection to the original. The script was co-written by the director and Tonino Guerra.. The resultant screenplay is vintage Antonioni, transformed from a simple story into a philosophical meditation.. There's a Hitchcockian twist to the script, but no Hitchcockian resolution.. The film provides a fabulous evocation of swinging London, with the rock bands, pot smoking, casual sex, and stylish outfits.......

In order to distinguish between reality and imagination, the audience must carefully pay attention to the photographic images and the sounds that are being provided at different points throughout the film, even if the images are not clear-cut and the sounds are not accompanied by a visual.
The blurs could have been a trick of the camera and the sounds could have been in the protagonist's imagination.
Antonioni's clever use of techniques shows things that seem to be something they are not.
The modernist style allows him to expresses a situation that would normally be unclear by any other means of expression.
Therefore the audience will never know if what was captured on film was a murder and are further dumbfounded by the delusion of the tennis match.
They are left to question every occurrence.

Watching "Blow-Up " is a kind of challenge because there are not many movies like it.
Nowadays they'd call this film "independent ," although even that contemporary movement has largely become mainstream.
See this movie if you're up for thinking a lot.
Incidentally, you might recognize some of scenes in this film as being the sources for parodies made in the Austin Powers films.