If the narrative feels thin, the imagery is anything but. Antonioni used his $7 million budget to "bite the hand that fed him," turning the American landscape into a surreal stage for existential angst. Movie Review – Zabriskie Point - PopCult Reviews

A student radical who flees Los Angeles in a stolen light aircraft after a campus protest turns violent.

Michelangelo Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point is perhaps the most beautiful disaster in Hollywood history. Released in 1970 as a high-budget attempt by MGM to capture the "youth counterculture" market, it was met with a critical savaging from mainstream press like Roger Ebert, who called it "silly and stupid". Yet, decades later, it stands as a visually devastating condemnation of American materialism that feels as hypnotic and polarizing as ever. The Story: A Drift Through the Desert