Great movies with unlikeable protagonists
This is one of the few movies that I loved, yet STRONGLY disliked the main character. What are some other movies like this?
shareWhen I first saw this film, I thought "Jerry Cornelius", for some reason.
shareI don't think the Thomas character was meant to be intensely dislikeable. A bit arrogant, and harried to the detriment of some around him. And of course there's the whole way he travels from his self absorbed focus to an awareness of things going on outside his everyday life. But to appreciate that tansition it would be detrimental to view him in too negative a context, if nothing else because that would probably tend to make his ability to learn and understand less plausible, perhpas.
share(Also) Blow-up seems to be a detour from Antonionis previus films, all dealing with human inter-relations. Here, the conflict is between a human and his reality, his environment, we might say. (The theme would continue in slightly different form in his two remaining great films - Zabriskie Point and Professione: reporter.) Therefore, perhaps it isn't vital for us to like the character.
As for the main question, most, if not all, main characters in all the dark films from the 40s-early50s, now known as film-noirs, are ambiguous and not very sympathetic, some of them even dislikeable. There's your source for more of such characters!
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The character is a bit arrogant, but he's also one of the best at what he does, which can rightly inflate the ego a touch. It's a kind of attractive confidence in himself.
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