Red Desert is a film that I believe is not a simple character study, it is an apocalyptic notion of the future in shockingly contemporary terms. That aspect of Antonioni's purely other-worldly and futuristic filmmaking is what makes the film so shocking in its moral statements and so provocative in its overall design. Antonioni uses color masterfully and creates for us a world of industrial mechanics, bleakly emphasizing his apocalyptic terms through a simple woman looking for love in her loveless environment. The characters are merely symbols and rather than the images emphasizing characters I believe that the characters are merely human identifications of his world of doom, which is shockingly contemporary in even today's modern world.
Review of Red Desert
