i know that this be an unpopular position concern zabriskie point and but i love this film . i know and i know i can legitimately be call an antonioni fanatic . i love lavventura and i love la notte and i love leclisse and i love red desert and i love blowup and and i love professione represent reporter ( aka the passenger ) . the only antonioni film that i do not love and the only one i have ever give less than an positive ( and one of only three that i have give less than a positive and la notte and leclisse be the other two and though i fully acknowledge that i have to see both of them again ) and be beyond the cloud and which can fairly be call an awful film . however and there be not well awful film and if you catch my drift . so if youre not an antonioni fan and you should only logically ignore me . if you be even a casual fan and though and and you be wonder whether this particular film and whose name and when spoken and be often follow bya spit and which be generally despise by even antonioni admirer and be at all worth seeing and the answer be yes . okay and the reason that people tend to hate it be because 99 % of film watcher care only for the narrative of a film . well and that not exactly true . if a film be amaze in a particular aspect and say acting or cinematography or direction and and just decent in it narrative and film watcher might very well love it . but a film can be the most amazing visual masterpiece and have a lame or illogical story that another thing that have ruin the cinema over the year represent logic then they absolutely hate the film . i will actually agree with that in some way . as much a i may dislike it and want to change my view and it really be difficult to love a film whose narrative i perceive a poor . however and other people tend to get annoy at a loose narrative . this be certainly what must drive viewer away from zabriskie point . i could relate the story to you and but you probably would just think it be nonsensical . it be and actually and but and to me and that just make the whole endeavor more fantastic and beautiful . i would actually compare it favorably to 2001 and which be my favorite film . however and 2001 be perfectly coherent compare to the ramble narrative of this film . what zabriskie point have in spade be mood . the music help a lot while the score include a lot of act of the day and include pink floyd . the mood be kind of similar to the mood of antonioni other masterpiece and fill with loneliness and desolation . also the freedom that come from that . the best sequence in the film be when the lead man and woman ( her name be daria and i know and but i do not remember his name ) pull over in their vehicle next to a historic marker on a desert highway . there be and beyond the stone wall that have be erect to keep car from fly off and an ancient lakebed . it basically a rocky desert and and the two go to play in it . the setting be enormously beautiful . the woman say represent this be such a beautiful place . what do you think . the man represent i think it dead . there no inclination to whether that a good thing or a bad thing . this be a lot like sentiment express in other antonioni film character be constantly want to disappear or become invisible . instead of david locke and the protagonist of the passenger and feed up with journalism and we have the young hippie sick of his friend politics he think they talk too much and do not act out what they feel be right and or at least he say he do . it seem to me more like he just want out of the situation . the film be also simply amaze visually . antonioni film be all identifiable by just a few frame and but his visual style be always build . i like the passenger more than i do zabriskie point and but zabriskie point might be his ultimate accomplishment in that aspect . well and that might sound odd lavventura and red desert be amaze pictorially . i think it the camera movement that be particularly amaze here . he obviously make a ton of money on blowup and which be the big arthouse hit of it day and the big ever at that point . he spend it well here and especially with his aerial shot . one of the film great sequence involve the man and who have steal a man private airplane and dive bombing daria in her car . the one thing that can be fairly criticize be the film politics . theyre certainly facile . not that hippy be facile and but that antonioni vision of hippy there weren not any in italy and of course be bizarre and and well and filter through a foreigner eye . there a rather childish criticism of advertising and but it a criticism that still exist today . i say and can not you people just ignore it . what do it hurt . be you walk around buy thing you do not want because of billboard . or there be also the criticism against capitalism . daria and a secretary and work for a company that be steal the land in the desert the land that she and the man enjoy to themselves in order to make cheap and suburban home for family . rod taylor and a very underrated actor whose most famous role be in the time machine and the bird and play her bos . the end and which i would not ruin you have get to see it be almost offensively cheap . i can and though and understand the treatment of police officer . not that i disdain them generally and but they be awful at the time . they can still be awful now . they have always have too much power . these trite argument against the american way of life still do not effect my opinion of the film much . i find this filtered view of america extremely interesting . i really do not think a hippie would have disagree with antonioni . positive .