As I said in the title, my feelings for this movie are right in between of those two. Boredom, for a lot of meaningless and unbearable scenes and dialogues, especially in the second half of the picture; rage, for the one i felt towards those characters. Speaking of which , there's no character you should like or love: Anna, the bored girl, the personification of emptiness, dull pessimism, literally a figure consistent as the air; Sandro, the envious man with lot of regrets that is incapable of loving something and that would jump into bed with everything that breathes; Claudia, the "bimbo" (a dear friend of Anna..), that sacrifices herself to escort Sandro in the desperate research of Anna, with so much commitment and desperation that they nearly go to bed together after a few hours, that two days after she has known Sandro "wants all that HE wants". The climax of the hate i felt for them is maybe in the last scene, where a jealous Claudia finds the "love of his life" kissing and cuddling with a prostitute (an expensive one) in the hall of the hotel they are staying in, she runs out in the balcony, and she cries, desperate (as if she thought that a man that didn't spare a tear for his ex, that could be dead or worse, had loyalty towards her, his new doll...) Sandro runs to her, not before paying the prostitute, and after that....he cries too, the poor little boy... and as if that wasn't enough, she forgives him.
I can say of myself many things, but for sure I don't get bored easily. And the funny thing is that the director, Antonioni, was surely inspired from an Alberto Moravia's book called, precisely, "la Noia" (Boredom). And his intention was to show this boredom mixed with regrets and incapacity to communicate of this rich people. He wanted the picture to look realistic, and i'm okay with it, but i can accept reality, for how much tedious and bitter it is, cause it is reality and in most of cases you can't run from it but you have to front it... but dear Michelangelo (rest in peace) this is a movie and if it isn't asking too much i would like to love/like at least one character, to help me get through the movie. If you make me hate all the characters of the movie, how do you expect i would like it?
They made me study this movie at the "film history" course at the university and it is a remarkable piece of italian cinema according to lot of critiques. For what is worth i appreciate the Photography, the editing, the location and i can even appreciate that it was filmed by a small troupe with lots of budget problems, but i really don't appreciate the script, the acting (in most of the cases) and the message that supposedly and passively the movie would like to refer. That's my view of it, most critiques would chop my head off but i don't care.
I can say of myself many things, but for sure I don't get bored easily. And the funny thing is that the director, Antonioni, was surely inspired from an Alberto Moravia's book called, precisely, "la Noia" (Boredom). And his intention was to show this boredom mixed with regrets and incapacity to communicate of this rich people. He wanted the picture to look realistic, and i'm okay with it, but i can accept reality, for how much tedious and bitter it is, cause it is reality and in most of cases you can't run from it but you have to front it... but dear Michelangelo (rest in peace) this is a movie and if it isn't asking too much i would like to love/like at least one character, to help me get through the movie. If you make me hate all the characters of the movie, how do you expect i would like it?
They made me study this movie at the "film history" course at the university and it is a remarkable piece of italian cinema according to lot of critiques. For what is worth i appreciate the Photography, the editing, the location and i can even appreciate that it was filmed by a small troupe with lots of budget problems, but i really don't appreciate the script, the acting (in most of the cases) and the message that supposedly and passively the movie would like to refer. That's my view of it, most critiques would chop my head off but i don't care.