The three moral tales that make up I vinti do little to provide an explanation for the dehumanized behavior of postwar youth, which is the film's subject. Rather, the segments are given the stamp of Antonioni in their depiction of an aimlessness that is reflected in landscape (desolate fields, deserted streets, abandoned country homes) as much as action. In one story, a French boy is killed by his pals when the wad of fake money he flashes is taken for real; in another, an eccentric British poet murders so that he can "discover" the body and break the story in the press. It's a bit like Hitchcock without the hitch; with Antonioni, the play is definitely not the thing. Set and filmed in three countries-France, Italy, and England-this relatively innocuous film was thrice censored: France and Britain banned their respective chapters and the Italian sequence was altered before shooting even began.