Through tonal, thematic conflicts and opaque, ambiguous motivations, Antonioni deftly depicts the post-war ennui, urbane alienation, nihilistic apathy, and disconnected self-indulgence of his upper middle-class protagonists, with modernist aesthetics and narrative singularities.
At the end, we have learned no great lessons and arrived at no thrilling conclusions, but we have shared the community of the night, when people are unbuttoned and vulnerable - more ready to speak about what's really on their minds.