These days, I am obsessed with art that leaves empty spaces and uses the viewer's imagination to fill it. Antoni's L'Eclisse, despite its grim atmosphere, plays around with this idea with incredible joy. To qualify any film as good or bad, one first has to decide what the film is trying to accomplish. L'Elisse exploits this very idea: Scene after scene, Antoninoni teases the viewers' emotions and intellect with unmistakable precision, yet it's somehow impossible to pin him down.
Instead of giving answers, he let us navigate, contemplate, and figure out something relevant for ourselves. His aesthetic approach is not arbitrary: It's reflects his(and Monica Vitti's character's) worldview, where meaning and chaos constantly flirt with one another.
