This is the third Antonioni film I've seen.
The first two I saw were L'AVVENTURA and BLOW UP.
I must admit--without Jack Nicholson's fantastic commentary, I would have missed a lot of the story itself--which I found to be implausible.
SPOILERS:
The premise is that a combat documentarian switches places with a man who just died for no explicable reason.
As my thinking goes--most movies fail at the point of concept.
And I'm a big fan of Antonioni.
That being said--beyond the weak premise--there are some troubling and noteworthy experiments by Antonioni; the most shocking of which is real documentary footage of what appears to be a military-led public execution.
I also had problems with the new love interest--she instantly helped the hero out of the blue--both of them seemingly united because they were inexplicably escaping their past.
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