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Antonioni’s “Blow Up”

Juli Kearns July 31, 2007 Cinema 16 Comments

This analysis has been updated extensively and republished over in the static pages portion of the website because of the number of images used.

Traveling in the opposite direction of Odile, Johnnie hadn’t seen the UFO that had distracted Odile from noting certain disaster. As far as he was aware he was not the Hand of God, Fate in a Strait Jacket, Destiny with a Ticket to Ride Your Sorry Ass into the predispensational, apocalyptic horizon, but even had Odile seen his thunder ball car she would have been unable to avert what was coming next, which several seconds in advance was as good as a police report already, there being paths of no return after all, some of which are writ for the long haul and others which tumble past your peripheral vision on the sly.

-- Thunderbird and the Ball of Twine (A Folk Tale)

Chance picked up a sterling silver table knife off the golf green. Feeling ever more disoriented, the woman looked about at the grass, the trees. One of the things she'd liked best about the Highlights magazine for children was that in every issue there was a picture in which you had to find the hidden objects, kind of like Rorschach blots only god's own graphic artist was intentionally hiding things like spoons, bikes, yo-yos and monkeys in the wood grain of tables, patterns of leaves, rivulets in brooks.

"When people start calling you a thief, it's time to say ciao baby, because what's coming is they're going to strip you clean and still say you're a thief while slurping your marrow," Faith said.

Chance picked up a sterling sliver spoon. Somewhere there was a fork. Or maybe not. They could be trying to fool her into believing she should find a complete place setting, which would keep her from seeing the parrot beneath her nose.

-- Unending Wonders of a Subatomic World (or) in Search of the Great Penguin