was it all a dream??
drug use??
shareNo. Read this: https://moviechat.org/tt0060176/Blow-Up/5e60516deddd2826504b2048/The-movie-is-about-something-for-Chrissakes
The murder happened.
It's just that Thomas (the photographer) was a pretentious ass (like a lot of filmmakers and photographers of the 1960s) who believed that his camera could capture "truth", to the point of letting his camera "perceive" for him. He was so obsessed with this idea that his camera could "see" the truth better than he could that instead of just doing what any normal human being would do if they suspected a murder (call the police, or maybe get a friend to go back to the park), he did the opposite. He wasted time trying to blow up this negative to find out the truth about whether the murder had happened or not.
What eventually happened is that the image of the dead body got fuzzier the more he blew it up, and the negatives got stolen. This caused Thomas to doubt whether the murder had happened at all. This is because he had put so much faith in his camera being able to show "the truth" for him that he lacked faith in his own ability to know what really happened.
Basically, this was Antonioni (the director) making a statement about a new school of pretentious filmmakers and photographers who were getting carried away with themselves in thinking that they could capture reality by taking gritty street photos or raw footage of people.
There would have been gunshots but that seems to have been ignored in the film.
shareA silencer? :)
But that doesn't really matter. the film is a study, or an experiment if you prefer, about what's real & what isn't, what we think is real & what isn't, how we shape our own model of truth & how we assign meaning to the world. But it's not pretentious at all, IMHO. Thought-provoking, an art film? Certainly! Which is what it was made to be, both entertainment & questions to ponder afterward.
they show the gun in one of the pics - it didn't look like it had a silencer.
shareI suspect we don't hear a gun for the same reason we don't see a tennis ball in the final scene with the mimes, but we still hear it in play, emphasizing the difference between perception filtered through our preconceived model of the "real" world, and whatever reality actually is … or isn't ...
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