Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by tinear (A) on December 09, 2005 at 05:06:32

In Reply to: OK, NOT a spoiler. :-) posted by jeffreybehr on December 8, 2005 at 15:13:01:

enjoyment is heightened if one realizes what Italians were feeling during the post-WWII years, years critical in Italian cinema. The guilt of Italian fascism and the fact that so many Italians had joyfully executed their fellow countrymen, and supported a most brutal regime in Germany, took its psychological toll.
Then, there was the aimlessness of modern industrial life, expressed more strongly in Antonioni's earlier efforts, such as L'Eclisse.
You may have been napping, if you're serious about the ending being ambiguous. It is crystal clear what happened to Nicholson's character.