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RE: You, sir, are a very perceptive man... nt

Posted by afilado on April 15, 2008 at 10:25:48:
You note the humor. Yes.

The film is always pressing the borders of the absurd. Abuse, emotional and otherwise, is a vehicle for parody, for the surreal. Irony is a relief. Everything is over the top, dramatically, perfectly contained, normalized.

Civility is deliberately, intelligently perverted before our eyes, by the story, the players and the director, yet we go along with it all because the perverse truths revealed are so familiar. There's security in the known, regardless the pain. What a cast!

Very life-affirming, this film. Art of a high order.

I'm reminded of Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolfe when I see Contempt.

Speaking of Antonioni, have you seen Il Grido? Highly recommended.