Michelangelo Antonioni’s films are aesthetically complex. They are thought-provoking and at the same time, quite intangible in meaning. They are known to pose difficult questions without simple answers. Common narrative obstacles are skewed in order to present expressive abstraction. As the viewer of the films, we are forced to react with our own independent imagination. The frustration of this experience is similar to what is felt in the lives of Antonioni’s characters. They are commonly unable to solve their own difficulties and they commonly, and quite strangely, end up lost in one way or another. The idea of loneliness or abandonment is at the core of Antonioni’s structuring of ideas, people, and objects. He tends to pull more towards the absence rather than the presence of his characters too. His films are also commonly enigmatic, in that, grasping a basic understanding or form of organization in life, is accomplished solely through individual mediation. He also positions his characters among a complex network of subjects and inter-subjective relationships. He constructs exterior things in their own contexts rather than voicing…show more content… Although the show is set-up on a stage to resemble two houses, George commonly breaks the fourth wall almost literally, by stepping over the cut-out of the side of the house to either talk directly to the audience or interact with the actors in the scene. This also could become apparent in scenes as simple as Grace vacuuming the carpet. She sweeps with it and only turns it on when her radio show is over. The sound from the radio changes from being the introduction to the scene, to being a part of the scene. Also, with the vacuum cleaner, I didn’t notice as a viewer that the vacuum wasn’t on because I knew I was watching a stage show. I almost felt stupid when she actually turned it
