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Not a great movie. Interesting at most, but I thoroughly enjoyed watching it.

The movie has all the ingredients to make it a great movie: a young Vanessa Redgrave showing us some perkiness, the Yardbirds with a young Jimmy Page smashing guitars, Gillian Hills of zou bisou fame (see also Megan in Mad Men), as well as sixties model Veruschka. The opening mimes were filmed – guess where? Yep, The Economist building :)

Anyways, you can easily interpret the movie as being just a beautiful stroll through the swinging London. The esthetic is pleasing and one can easily recognize fashion traits that have disappeared only to come back recently. What’s left unchanged is anorexia in the fashion world and drug use.

My preferred interpretation is that the movie is a play on reality vs perception – especially the end with the mime tennis. Incidentally, that’s also ctp’s theme in Cassargoz (sf, joc, realitatea).

Incidentally, this movie is credited with smashing through Holywood’s old production code.

Sources / More info: wiki, imdb, perspectivism, subjectivism, Gillian Hills, Veruschka

5 comments:

  1. increase search engine rankingWednesday, 28 March 2012 at 05:26:00 GMT-4

    Very interesting post! keep it up.....

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  2. GeorgeThursday, 29 March 2012 at 20:31:00 GMT-4

    Glad to find out that you noticed the movie - a gent your age seeing it is remarkable, judging by your first line.
    Your first line may not be exactly accurate, since the movie is great for a handful of generations should you ask them. Greatness in cinema is a paprika-hot conversation, I hope you agree, and so is in photography, music and all else displayed in this movie.
    Bottom line, your post does what the title says, unfortunately without a mention of the great David H.

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  3. asa.zamo.caThursday, 29 March 2012 at 20:57:00 GMT-4

    Interesting dude as well, but not great either :)
    what's notable is that he's been considered for A Clockwork Orange and he actually died in Bucharest filming a movie.
    As for Blowup, it's hard to tell whether the many ideas and symbols had a purpose or were just thrown together with no deliberate recipe, only because they were or sounded interesting..

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  4. BlegooTuesday, 3 April 2012 at 14:34:00 GMT-4

    Bleah.
    Etnobotanice, chemicale, alea.
    Bleah, zic.

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  5. asa.zamo.caTuesday, 3 April 2012 at 14:55:00 GMT-4

    pai si-n milkbone ce crezi ca-i? :)

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