Blow Up

Antonioni's adaptation of Cortazar's story is an engrossing study of imagery and one's perception of the image. Set against the backdrop of 1960s London, this is the story of a fashionable young photographer Thomas as he passively snaps his way through a world of drugs, models and parties. While wandering through a quiet park, he begins taking photos of two lovers embracing. One of them, Jane, chases after him and demands that he returns the negatives. Later, after developing the photos, Thomas thinks he sees something in the background - a man with a gun aimed at the back of Jane's partner. Returning that evening to the park, Thomas finds the man's corpse. But the following morning, when he revisits the scene, the corpse has vanished...