On City Consciousness in Michelangelo Antonioni's Movies

Human civilization enters a new stage with the advent of the international urbanization which has been forging so different a life style ever seen in history and affecting the citizen's psychology.Such realization arouses the aspiration in the distinguished movie-makers,thus they could accomplish the splendid integration of the scene and the spirit of the times in their movies,rendering the movies much more aesthetic and effective which finally turn into the unperishing artistic masterpieces presenting the human spirit.Compared with the rural subject matter and the traditional culture usually employed in the movies made in mainland China,the urban culture and the citizen's psychology are rarely presented in such movies;however,the city consciousness will inevitably be mixed into Chinese movies in the process of their modernization.