Movie 228/1001 ~ Blowup

Blowup is a 1966 English-Italian art film. The film has an unusual narrative structure. The movie follows a photographer as he pursues a number of objectives throughout the day including the seemingly innocuous photographing of a couple in the park. Only afterwards, when he brings the photos home and the woman from the photos follows him and demands the photographs does the plot thicken. This film is about the image and really is trying to question reality. If only a picture of something exists did it really happen? This motif is underlined when the main character is watching some mimes play tennis, and eventually we begin to hear the sounds of the imaginary ball and rackets and culminates in the character himself disappearing from the grassy field. I liked this movie. It is a slow plot development and is a little unusual, but I feel that the movie is quite interesting and very well shot. However, there are some extraneous and overly long sequences.



Fun Fact: This film helped destroy the MPAA Production Code. This film was controvertial because it has full frontal female nudity (gasp!) and MGM released it despite not getting approval from the MPAA.



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