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There is much in what you say Dome, but I would suggest that you would be hard pressed to come up with very many movies that are both great and simple.
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But that's the beauty of film: they do indeed exist.
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Can you name a few Dome? I am not saying that they do not exist, but I really can't think of any off the top of my head. Or perhaps you and I assign differernt meanings to the word 'simple'.
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Then there's the whole essay from Criterion. Lack of moral evolution? That's the funny difference between artists and scientists. Scientists like to ask questions and wonder if they have the means to answer them. They ask for research grants, perform experiments, and throw all the dirty work at Post Docs and graduate students. Artists just simply like to ask the question and revel in it, not really too concerned with making a concerted effort of answering the question. That's how the tone of the essay with Antonioni feels like. Moral advancement? Advance where?
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I can't tell from this, but are you angry that art is not science?
To use your own phrase, I could have told you that without any analysis at all.
Jim, I’m not raking Dome over the coals, just challenging his continual, pejorative and inaccurate (to my mind) use of the word
pretentious, when describing a film that he does not like.