i be tell it be one of those either you love it or you hate it movie . well and i love it . obvious hippie era and date and easy symbolism and all . so and i probably have no taste at all when it come to antonioni and but this and la notte ( make exactly a decade earlier ) be my favourite among his movie so far . make two year before i be bear and zabriskie point be suppose to have be michelangelo great american epic . but apparently and it turn out to be a flop . i really can not see why . before watch it i would read that it be rather boring and so i brace myself for a very slow movie though i love me a slow movie . for my taste and zabriskie do not have a tedious minute in it . while watch it and i make a mental note of how european it be on the director part to make such frequent use of advertisement billboard in almost every urban scene and enormous billboard dwarf any human form in sight . this recurrent visual element be obviously there to underline the way that consumerism crush the individual in american society . but then i watch leclisse straight afterwards and which be set in rome in the early 60 and and notice that antonioni often include billboard in it as well . after all and the masterful use of landscape and architecture and inanimate object in each frame with or without human being be an antonioni trademark this be precisely the way that he evoke his character psychological state and with more or less understated power and great visual impact . he be virtually unsurpassed in this skill . zabriskie point star two very appeal lead that should have become big star of the 70 and but never do . mark frechette and whom i would already see in francesco rosi fine wwi set movie uomini contro and have a very tragic life and die age just 27. accord to his biography page and he donate his $ 60 and 000 earnings from zabriskie to a commune . mark co star daria halprin and apparently also dennis hopper wife later on and have the stunning and natural beauty and appeal of a young ornella muti one of those luminous beauty that do not need a shred of make up to turn head . like frechette and she have only grace a couple of obscure movie and have never become a star and but at least she do not die tragically . most notably and zabriskie point contain one of the most original sex scene ever film one that bring home a sense of youthful playfulness like few i have see as well a a powerfully cathartic end . it may be the most banal sequence ever film as far a it symbolism go and but i can not see how anyone can deny it beauty and wonderful sense of emotional release . never have an explosion look so good and and so poetic . it seem to be an explosion that restore order rather than bring chaos .