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Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

shantiq Reading reviews here and elsewhere this film divides people. Some want a more materialistic world with more machines more toys more matter; Others prefer a more spiritual beauty-inflected reality.This film is beautiful in so many ways: Frechette and Daria are beautiful. Their attitudes are beautiful. The desert and cacti are beautiful. Corporate and its armed wings' America are not. Nature is beautiful here. Man-made realities; those huge roads crisscrossing each other are not. There is a constant dance between the two; a refusal to accept the other side of the equation. Antonioni had made Blow-up 4 years prior and this too is a masterpiece of disconnection from the world we have created. In that way both those films encapsulate the 60-70s countercultural spirit. Also watch More and La Vallée - Obscured by Clouds both directed by Barbet Schroeder and containing a Pink Floyd soundtrack too; the 3 films which have PF soundtrack are all paeans to counter-cultural values; the aural layer to those filmic works supporting and reinforcing them.Zabriskie Point is a highly meaningful film and the values therein are as relevant in 2018 as they were in 1970: Nature and Man; the Older and The Young; rebellion against the mechanistic age; playfulness and youth; the Gaian Rape as perpetrated by greedy men; the struggle between the ones who accept The Machine and its edicts and the Ones who do not.It is a classic today and will likely remain so.

zero-signal They must worked hard to promote this production, it's still available. Apparently, minds behind this project tried to tell us something but the fruit falls far from the tree.If they wanted to create an anti-system (i think "capitalism" in this case) message and influence people, they sure managed to do exact opposite.But what can you do? There are billions of human around the world and being a pretentious, self-righteous hippi director is always free of charge. Speaking of this movie, it seems that they even awarded him with enough money and production opportunity.Don't even have a thought about watching this hippi crap with lame messages.Shame to everybody , who especially have role to produce that earth-orgy scene.

Kirpianuscus it seems very strange to define it. because it has the sin and the virtue to be not exactly a film. maybe an experiment. but not in real sense. a collection of images and emotions, a parable or a game, opportunity for two young people to perform, a critic to social absurdity, a confession or a build of new world. colors and image and simple poetry of image and sketch of story. this is all. nothing for impress . but to translate a state of soul, the tension of a period, the desire/need to return to the original peace. the film is not a manifesto or a demonstration of the art of Antonioni. it is only skin for a state of soul. and this does it special. strange. and memorable.

Red-Barracuda When Michelangelo Antonioni decided to make his first film away from his native Italy, he did so in London in the middle of the swinging sixties, at a time when the music of the British Invasion was at the height of its influence. Blow-Up (1966) would become the most successful art-house movie of its day and part of the reason for this was that London was the centre of western culture at that moment and the film benefited considerably from surfing that particular wave. So it maybe seemed logical that for his next movie Antonioni would travel to the west coast of America, which by the later 60's had taken the baton from London and was the home of the counter-culture and the new home of all that was cutting edge. The result was Zabriskie Point and it would not only be the only film Antonioni would make in America but also, unlike Blow-Up, a critical and commercial disaster. It was a movie that could only have been made when it was, given that at the time the Hollywood studios were throwing huge sums of money at director-driven art films in an attempt to tap into the counter-culture audience who had shown such an appetite for such left-field fayre in the late 60's. It was the time of New Hollywood and, strange as it seems now, films the likes of Zabriskie Point were par for the course for a short while.In the event, despite all of the above, Zabriskie Point met with hostility seemingly. It was seen as a poorly acted, tedious, silly and self-indulgent fiasco. To be honest, all of Antonioni's films are an acquired taste really, and this one is no different in this respect. Zabriskie Point is quite similar in overall tone and approach to much of his other work but the counter-cultural setting is what sets it apart so jarringly. It's true that it does have a very loose, slow-paced story and awkward dialogue but story has never been Antonioni's main focus and this film is no different. What it is, is a wonderfully strange and visually incredible bit of cinema. The cinematography is frankly stunning throughout with the widescreen compositions a continual delight. The almost documentary-style opening, by contrast, is at odds with the visually spectacular approach used in the rest of the film. This scene thrusts us into the midst of a meeting of student political activists and has a very real feel for these dynamic times. The themes of the story in general looks at the then very current issue of American youth vs the establishment and it does capture the spirit of the counterculture in its admittedly odd way. It almost feels a little prophetic too with its essentially pessimistic story mirroring the reality that the counter-culture was about to come crashing down not long after its release.But perhaps Zabriskie Point is celebrated mostly these days for two things in particular – its soundtrack and its famously explosive finale. The former is a pretty cutting edge selection of music from the likes of Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones and Roy Orbison, amongst others. In particular the use of 'Careful with that Axe, Eugene' by Pink Floyd in the celebrated explosion sequence is an especially phenomenal combination of sound and vision. This incredible extended sequence is justifiable revered and in all honesty is worth the price of admission alone. And for those who complain about its meaning being 'too obvious', all I can ask is what's wrong with an obvious point when it's delivered so well? This scene is the wishful imaginings of the character Daria as she wills the destruction of the material world of her corporate boss, the other time in the film where we are treated to the inner thoughts of the character's minds on screen is where the barren landscape of the desert suddenly becomes populated by countless young naked people in a mass scene of free love. Again, this is another aesthetically beautiful sequence and another string to Zabriskie Point's bow. We also have a psychedelic aeroplane that dive-bombs really dangerously low, lots of focus on billboards and adverts (that were no doubt intended as a critical view then but look really interesting now, many years later), there's epic scenery, a beautiful young hippy couple and a backdrop of a city rife with police brutality. There will never be another time quite as evocative as late 60's west coast America, it's an endlessly fascinating period full of incident, hope, despair and with a genuinely vibrant new culture playing out in the background. Zabriskie Point is a misunderstood gem of a film that taps into all of these things with the added bonus that it is by the hand of one of the cinematic visual masters of his day. I love this film and always will.