Blow Up

Michelangelo Antonioni casting his eye towards Britain, 1966
immediately apparent this is more commercial; narrative driven, shorter scenes
creation of space is very subjective; all from your leads P.O.V.
As are the colour schemes; against the grey reality his own illusory colour arrives
constant movements of a dying industrialism/ working class suffering he fails to notice (motif of nearby tower, with sign, then around scaffolding)
compostions usually pretty deep, but interesting use of telephoto distortions
characters on different panes reduced to one; looming and shrinking for each other
all related to the way the film operates from the lead's mindset
themes of the dialectic of the camera
at once is used to exploit, pin against the wall
but can reveal a kind of truth
if there is a message, it is that the camera must be used in the right way. And perhaps the camera is always too late
is ultimately the portrait of a deeply unpleasant character realising that he is missing, and how he confronts it
see-saw of how he is going to approach things; eventually, he plays along with the mimes
lead is terrific, Redgrave overacts a bit
film is condemnation of unthinking idiocy/ so called freedom actually as anaethstitsed repression
use of uncomfortable sexuality/ rock concert scene of drones (as those behind the camera, who dont think about their use of it)
Antonioni has made a condemnation of the times, a film more concerned with skewering others than with his own view (this making it, by operating in their system, more commercial)
a particulalry sensational last hour, once the ideas come in, let this film be another masterpiece from Antonioni, if not quite so special as 'L'Eclisse' or 'Il Deserto Rosso'