The very last scene...


I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on the very last scene in which Guiliana and her son view smokestacks spewing yellow smoke. She tells him about the little bird that next time avoids the poisonous smoke. Does anyone take this to mean that she will try to avoid her previous delerium? That's what I got out of it. I suppose it could also have to do with her adulterous behaviour but to me that would undermine some of the film as it is not a movie about an affair IMO at least. Also she seems a bit clearer in this scene so I was brought to think that things might be looking up for Guiliana. However the entire film has her going back and forth between functioning and not.

I know this is a film with no clear answers but it was so interesting I am compelled to ask what others might think.

I've heard that certain MA don't like this film. I think it may be his best.

"I've seen things in this city that make Dante's Inferno read like Winnie The Pooh."

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I would not be surprised if Guiliana was referring to herself, after all Guiliana did speak about herself in the third person when discussing her troubles after her accident.

"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not".

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Good point. Maybe things will look up for her then! I have read that this is a sort of black sheep among Antonioni fans. I would have to say it is my favorite of his that I have seen.

"I've seen things in this city that make Dante's Inferno read like Winnie The Pooh."

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My interpretation is that animals, birds, can cope with the environmental changes and learn to live with them, while humans have to face them directly, they cannot avoid them as easily, so the are completely subjected to the environment they live in ( and in this case, completely affected by them ) .

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Previously at the dock she told the sailor that she had to accept what was going on with her life. The last scene was another way of the film to reasset that statement.

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