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Nelson_Mandela 05/30/19 4:52:36 PM #196:	#178. Blowup https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/Blowup_poster.jpg Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni Genre: Suspense/Thriller, Mystery Year: 1966 I saw Blowup for the first time relatively recently and I hated it. But this might be the only movie in recent memory that I hated this much upon first viewing, but then wound up loving once I reflected on it for a couple of months. Maybe it's because I was frustrated with myself for having the wrong expectations for it. Maybe it's because few films have stuck with me that strongly after watching. But now I absolutely adore it. Blowup is similar to The Conversation and Zodiac in that the mystery is secondary to its affect on the psyche of the person trying to uncover it. But something sets Blowup apart from both of those movies for me. Woven into the mystery is a really surreal portrayal of 60s Italian counterculture that actually has lasted with me more than the mystery itself. The very end in particular, with ~~the main character resigned to the fact that he can't convince any of his peers to care about the crime and opting to instead mime a game of tennis~~ is so utterly bizarre but so perfectly emblematic of the era that I wanted to pull out my hair out of creative jealousy. Top 10 movie ending for me. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso <cite>Nelson_Mandela posted [p:922576924] in Presenting... [t:77714929]...</cite> <quote>#178. Blowup https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/Blowup_poster.jpg Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni Genre: Suspense/Thriller, Mystery Year: 1966 I saw Blowup for the first time relatively recently and I hated it. But this might be the only movie in recent memory that I hated this much upon first viewing, but then wound up loving once I reflected on it for a couple of months. Maybe it's because I was frustrated with myself for having the wrong expectations for it. Maybe it's because few films have stuck with me that strongly after watching. But now I absolutely adore it. Blowup is similar to The Conversation and Zodiac in that the mystery is secondary to its affect on the psyche of the person trying to uncover it. But something sets Blowup apart from both of those movies for me. Woven into the mystery is a really surreal portrayal of 60s Italian counterculture that actually has lasted with me more than the mystery itself. The very end in particular, with the main character resigned to the fact that he can't convince any of his peers to care about the crime and opting to instead mime a game of tennis is so utterly bizarre but so perfectly emblematic of the era that I wanted to pull out my hair out of creative jealousy. Top 10 movie ending for me. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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