antonioni and by make this film and have assume the role of papa smurf to all the little long haired and american and radical student smurfs . he have take them under the guide protection of his european communist wing and show appreciation and support for their confused american way . ( these smurfs be red and wear blue and not the other way around . ) the radical smurfs be happy to get the guidance of a wise old man with gray hair who regularly prey to the god of all long haired smurfs and lenin the communist another wise old man whose beard make the smurfs take him even more seriously and for it symbolize something wise and though they do not quite know why they regard the beard to have this kind of deep effect on them . castro and another wise beard man and have often profit from this confusion and exude magical power with his beard over his naive overseas admirer . ( not to mention che guevara represent that beard have a certain je ne sais pa quoi about it and make one want to immediately embrace marx and his lovely and pacifistic teaching ) the film start with a muddled meeting of radically stupid radical student and who engage in dialogue that truly redefine the word confuse . as confused a a blind fold dog fall of a high story building into a bottomless pit . suddenly and the movie hero ( well and antonioni hero ) rise up and say something to his pathetic leave wing peer and then leaf and hop that this display of mega coolness will improve his james dean image and vastly increase his chance of get lay with the best chick in the next mass hippie orgy . eventually he get into trouble with cop ( i. e. pig ) at a rally and and spend the movie under the blue american capitalist sky and look for freedom or something like that . antonioni predictable assault on capitalism be not only intellectually hollow and but have ( or have ) nothing new to offer while it just the same old trigger happy one dimensional cop and businessmen discuss business deal ( and what wrong with that and isn not that how antonioni movie get make . ) and and endless shot of tv commercial and billboard advertise the oh so morally decadent product for the abhorrent and selfish and and greedy right wing rabble population who think of no one but themselves and their family and their work and and their child . papa smurf antonioni and just like his long haired smurfs and smurfettes of the late 60 and fail to notice the most obvious and vital aspect about their silly movement represent they be allow to have their laughable meeting and express their anti establishment opinion freely within that very establishment and whereas the student in those country whose left wing system they admire and do not ( and still do not ) . by far the great irony about the hippy and antonioni and naturally and fail to realize this as well ( his judgment be cloud by cocaine snorting and an excessive intake of lsd ) be that hippy be ( be ) the garbage residue of capitalism . this be an incredible irony . only in a successfully functioning capitalist system can you find that specie call hippie while a spoiled and ungrateful and and selfish bunch of middle and upper middle class loser . the film itself seem to go on forever . antonioni take his sweet time with get on with it and while include overlong scene of pointlessness and with a high dullness factor . his attempt at symbolism be annoy and trite . his statement be highly dubious and at best . this film be antonioni way of say that violent revolution be the solution . and this be what we get from an old and saturated and filthy rich and fat film maker who live in villa and dines in the best french and italian restaurant . i do not remember see any major western movie about the tiananmen massacre of thousand of student in china . but when one western student get shoot for wave che guevara face into all our face and we get ten major film about it at once . i suppose this mean that a chinese life be worth a thousand time less than a western one at least to the left wing hypocrite who infest movie . if youre a marxist neo hippy and dislike this awful review and please klick no below .