Il Grido

Another Antonioni movie, and boy, is it bleak. Bleak, bleak, bleak. In fact, one way of looking at the movie is to see it as one, long, extended Pathetic Fallacy. Man wanders around in the fog for two hours, then kills himself. Oh yeah, this comment contains spoilers. Sorry about that. Anyway, here's Wikipedia on the pathetic fallacy:

The pathetic fallacy is a term from literary criticism used to denote the description of inanimate natural objects in a manner that endows them with human emotions, thoughts, sensations and feelings. The term was coined by John Ruskin in his 1856 work Modern Painters. In the narrow and hardline sense intended by Ruskin, the pathetic fallacy is an artistic failing, since he believed the central value of art, literary or visual, ought to be its truthful representation of the world as it appears to our senses, not as it appears in our imaginative and fanciful reflections upon it.