After a car accident and a brief stay in a clinic, a woman (Monica Vitti) has become increasingly sensitive to the environment of the industrial town that she lives in.
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Long ago humankind had to adapt to its environment. Nature was harsh and cruel and we as a species evolved to survive. Eventually we gained the ability to adapt our environment to us. Thanks to scientific advancement we can now literally pave paradise and put up a parking lot, or a strip mall, or a nuclear power plant. We are now the masters! Or are we? What does being surrounded by all this artificiality do to a person? All this noise and pollution has to have an effect doesn't it? Like white moths who turn grey to match the trees stained with ash from a local factory, are we too are changing in subtle ways to match our increasingly sick and contaminated environment?
Call Michelangelo Antonioni boring all you want, this film is a subjective masterpiece. Through careful use of sound, composition and color, he is able to put us right in Giuliana’s stylish shoes. This film works a spell on you. When it’s over, you cannot help but feel uneasy about the world you live in. Green Peace should use it as a recruitment film.
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