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Re: Sight and Sound (2002) Greatest Films Club
Here's the problem, Thomas. For you, "getting it" means agreeing with your interpretation of Blow-up. I "understand" what you think Antonioni was doing, I simply disagree. It's not that I don't see the argument you're making. But I don't agree. That's all. By most reasonable definitions (e.g., understanding), I "get it", but not I suppose if you add having to agree with you about it to the definition of "getting it".
Rich, nothing is ever 100% certain in a film, but there's a huge difference between there being room for interpretation within a well plotted and finished story, and just veering off into nonsense. If Antonioni had made Vertigo, we'd see Jimmy Stewart start to go up the stairs at the end and then the scene would shift to Antartica, where two purple and red striped zebras would be sitting at a table, debating Sartre.
"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder
"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.
"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock
"My great humility is just one of the many reasons that I am vastly superior to everyone else." - Ramrod Clerk
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