Worth watching for Bale's performance

Rating: 7/10 (8 October 2011)

I found the film to be entertaining but thought the ambiguity in the end was a bit of a cop out. I can accept the ambiguity or lack of clarity in a film by Bergman or Antonioni because the entire films tend to be consistent in their tone and message. "Blow Up" is ambiguous in the end because the entire film's premise concerns the lack of certainty in a photographed image - if the photograph can't be trusted, can the crime be proved to have happened? AP ends up being a case of the Unreliable Narrator and it's left to the audience to put the pieces together -- which ultimately don't fit in a coherent way. I appreciate ambiguity from vision, but not ambiguity from laziness.
Nevertheless, I enjoyed the film - mostly for Bale's performance which is brilliant and fearless.