Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because of Yemen, the Middle East last week resounded with the crash of terrorist bombs, the blows of murder and the rising wails of Arab leaders, who seemed to have completely abandoned their once-vaunted drive for unity. After a period of lull, the Yemen war has heated up again, but this time the bloodiest fighting is not between royalist and republican; it is among the republicans themselves, who control the southern third of the country (including the capital of San'a) with the help of Nasser's 47,000-man occupation army. Pro-republican tribesmen, who were...
...follows him to his studio and offers to make love to him if he will give her the negatives. He declines the offer, gives her a substitute roll of film, and develops the pictures when she leaves. In examining the blow-ups, he sees that he has photographed a murder: hidden in the forest is the girl's real boyfriend aiming a pistol at the man she is kissing...
...Antonioni, the discovery of the murder represents the intrusion of reality on the photographer's world. The blow-ups suddenly bring him face-to-face with potential involvement in the affairs of other people. He does not, actually, become involved: his nature rules out the possibility of calling the police, he cannot locate the girl, and his interest in the affair begins to diminish when he discovers that the girl has stolen the blow-ups--the only evidence of the crime. Still, for a moment, the detached photographer realizes his involvement sufficiently to consider the alternatives: calling the police...
...tennis game; when the photographer returns the illusory tennis ball he is not giving up hope and joining the revellers. The tennis game ending, like the five minute montage that ends Eclipse, is less a new scene than a visual synopsis of the events preceding it, most specifically the murder. The slow camera-panning back and forth following the imaginary ball refers to the panning back and forth along the blow-ups; the photographer is again faced with a situation that potentially could involve him personally...
...film includes unprovable allusions to unexhibited evidence: "There are at least eight persons now dead, either from murder or at least strange deaths, who were closely related to Jack Ruby or Lee Harvey Oswald . . . Something is wrong in the land...