[Quick Summary: When Anna goes missing, her friend Claudia and boyfriend Sandro search for her and end up falling for each other.]
This is a not a Hollywood three act script and it did not annoy me.
I supposed it is because:
1) It is an European film from the 1960s.
2) These characters are lost and searching for meaning, so I was not surprised when the script meandered as well.
Below is the moment I realized these these characters are disconnected from each other and the situation, i.e., Anna's reaction does not match the situation.
ex. Even before he has a chance to be surprised at the old man's remark, Sandro becomes aware that Anna is laughing. It is not the hysterical laugh that normally might be expected after such a close call. It is, instead a pure and simple laugh, almost a happy one, and leaves both Sandro and Claudia plainly baffled.
CLAUDIA: There's nothing much to laugh at.
SANDRO: And that's what I say, too. We could have all been killed.
Anna looks at them as she continues to laugh.
ANNA: I'm sorry...but I can't help laughing.
WHAT I'VE LEARNED: When I didn't insist the characters arc in the way that I am used to, I could appreciate what was actually going on, i.e., a story about disconnection.
L'Avventura (1960)
by Michelangelo Antonioni, Elio Bartolini, Tonino Guerra
Translated by Louis Brigante
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