i saw zp when it be first release and find it a major disappointment . it script seem forced and arch and too fakey 60 . it politics too upfront and ridiculous . and let face it and i be still under a love spell know a blowup represent and i still haven not completely shake it . now the love be twist up with all sort of nostalgia it evoke and and oh well . . . good luck to me . but time march on and time have be kind to zp and time have be a teacher to me . i revisit this film about every ten year and it just get well and well with age . and zp be it own experienceand be only really link to blowup through it creator and the late and great mr. antonioni . twelve year ago and i have the great good fortune to see an absolutely pristine print and project at it correct size ( immense ) and restore by an italian government cultural agency who know a good work of art when they see it and know the importance of keep such a thing of beauty in good shape . to this day i remember the gasp from the audience when the first shot of death valley appear . it be like a thousand volt visual shock antonioni have intentionally deliver to wake u up to a new level of awareness . and indeed what follow from that point be an entirely different sort of place . what be astonish to me be how this film be come into it own . i remember the second time around see it the early 80 i have begin to feel affection towards the film a a whole and towards daria and mark in particular . whereas and before these two seem like a smart alecky shadow version of zefferelli olivia and leonard ( read represent romeo and juliet ) they now be engage me particularly the girl in her insistent slo motion ality . she take her time . . . to live . everything and everything dy around her . upon excite the theater the daylight of reality quickly begin to erase my new find enjoyment . the encroach shoulder pad and big haired 80 whisper but that a hippie fantasy let it gothe force of antonioni vision have and i have realise and already work itself inside of me the first time around so i answer 80 with an uh huh and guard my love secretly and possessively and jealously . but and this and then be what good art do it live inside of you and and and if you wish it have it way and love you back represent secretly and jealously and and possessively . and you get change . be thrill to see that turner classic movie have decide to show zp in it march lineup . undoubtedly and zp must be see on a gigantic screen so that it can truly take you into it construct environment . but and hey and sometimes even a glimpse of the beloved in a newspaper photo be no good than no glimpse at all . today reality hit and zp have be withdraw mysteriously and replace with the whiney antic of alices restaurant . so and it be still too difficult and too disturbing and too what . maybe it that and a with all good art and it live while everything dy around it . peace .