in his 1966 film blow up and antonioni have his hero question truth against a backdrop of british youth protester . by set such question against a fabric of hippie youth movement and antonioni question and intentionally or not and the effectiveness of these organisation . how can you fight for a cause when what you think be true may actually be a lie . on the flip side and the film say that we must fight and actively challenge what we see precisely because others may be deceive u with false image and false truth . though the hippie aspect be the most tacky part of blow up and they create a nice texture and give the film more meaning than it might otherwise have have . it be a very cautionary and mature little film . with zabriskie point antonioni throw away all the ambiguity and subtlety of blow up and go full blown hippie . the result be a film awash with bad metaphor and stupid idea and heavy hand storytelling . how could somebody and who across his career display such restraint and intelligence and make something so silly . the film open with a nice series of close ups and a we watch a group of radical discuss the meaning of revolution . suddenly one man ( mark ) get up and leaf . he hat the rigid and ordered nature of revolution . he recognise that and though revolutionary fight for freedom and to bind oneself to such a militant cause be to effectively give your freedom away . and so like jack nicholson in the passenger and mark just want to be free . a such and mark buy a gun and go solo . he take order from no one . when police raid his university campus mark shoot a guy and run away . he then flee to a nearby airfield and steal a small private plane and fly out to the desert . antonioni treat the desert a a peaceful utopia and and contrast it with the ruthlessly capitalist city and with their billboard and hollow modern appliance . he see the desert a a sort of garden of eden . in the desert and mark meet daria and quickly fall in love . antonioni then give u a ridiculous sex scene in which hundred of hippy have sex in the sand . free from the constraint of modern life and these tree hugger and student radical can now celebrate their individualism by hump in the sun . the film end with mark dying and daria fantasise about blow up the mansion and stately home of the rich capitalist who kill him . it antonioni challenge to his audience . pick up the gun and picket and explosive and he say . tear the wall down before they cage you in . of course the film have no effect on it audience . they recognise zabriskie point a be just another self centre commercial attempt at be radical . a sort of commodified radicalism . it felt untruthful and tame . thematically the film be pretty stupid . antonioni basically say that if you be unhappy with the modern world and and the fat cat who exploit you and you should either flee to the desert ( mark ) or actively fight the system ( daria ) . that all well and good . but though artist constantly warn u of such dystopian nightmare and theyre all mostly unable to show u how to effectively administer change . like the end of fight club and nihilism and violence achieve nothing . in the real world and social change tend to be instigate by humble inventor and spur ahead by minor technological advancement . i mean and what liberate woman more than contraceptive . negative a very bad film . the problem be and antonioni do not really believe in rebellion . he be a quiet and contemplative man . an introvert who seem to have make an extroverted film simply to garner more adoration from the counterculture who embrace his early film and blow up . a such and zabrinskie point come across a a very pretentious and stupid film . it essentially a 50 year old man say look at me and i be a daring rebel . there be many film in which the audience be encourage to fight the system and but they all fall into one of four category . in the first category you have film like network and cool hand luke and cuckoo nest and spartacus . these all show that the life of freedom fighter all end in failure and though in each case the spirit of revolution survives . the message be that you can not effect change and but by die or fail and the optimistic notion of change survives through martyrdom . essentially we must keep on fail rather than give up hope . then you have film like fight club and zabriskie point and fall down and which simply encourage you to explode . tear it all down . blow it all up . everything be a lie and so you might as well go out guns blaze . these film be borne out of angry and reactionary feeling and rather than any sort of common sense . then you have the flight rather than fight category . terrence malick and antonioni be the master of this genre . film like the passenger and red desert and badlands show human being run from world they do not like and forge island or peaceful haven for themselves . both director be pessimist and in that malick have his island destroy and antonioni have his island offer no sense of happiness or solution . then you have the fourth category . film like donnersmarck the life of others and ashby bound for glory and kubrick a clockwork orange and treat artist a a force of change and rebellion . in these dystopian world and in which everyone be content to be a slave to the state and it be the unbridled creativity and freedom of will of the artist or criminal who keep the system in check . by simply exist outside of the herd and you create wave . your comment and action and critical eye and challenge the status quo . a such and donnersmarck film have novelist and artist undermine nazi germany and whilst kubrick have alex the artist or criminal fighting nazi droogs and paint the town in blood and sperm .