Michelangelo Antonioni's Influence On Modern Cinema

The era that Michelangelo Antonioni belonged to was a time where filmmaking was considered as a type of art that consisted of contemporary ideas and techniques just like any other fine art. During the 1960s, big name filmmakers worldwide began to experiment with more formal techniques as well as adopted new methods to narrate, which basically extended the perceptions of cinema for audiences in various ways. Like many other up-to-date artists and filmmakers at the time, Antonioni felt like he needed to disconnect from the past in order to depict the different changes that had transpired in Europe post World War II. As people from the different classes strayed away from traditional cultural values, contributed to economic development, and embraced a lifestyle based upon consumerism; life as Italians knew it wasn’t the same after the war. Classical cinema emphasized the idea of simple cause-and-effect storytelling seemed unable to reflect or depict the modern world effectively. People from the different classes started to stray away from old-fashioned cultural values, participate in Italian economic progress, and embrace the consumer-based lifestyle more; life basically wasn’t like it was before the war. Classical cinema emphasized simple cause-and-effect storytelling and it seemed unable to depict or reflect the modern world effectively. Even though …show more content…
In his long shots that seemed carefully composed, as well as his bleak and plain locations mirror the stoic sentiments of the characters. Sometimes, people are even isolated within the backdrop by features of the construction or details of way the set was designed. Sometimes there were scenes where the characters were absent and nothing happened, added with the slow pacing, allowed the audience to pay attention to the scenery and to absorb the creepy sense of displacement proposed by the style of the