8½ Comments

  • Burley 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    The level is too low to...

  • Bernhard 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    10 points dedicated to Fellini's realistic summary. At the end, the director's insights are similar to the thoughts of the Indian philosopher Osho. Everyone is incomplete and unique. We should treat life as a celebration and carnival, and make ourselves truly active. "I"...

  • Krystel 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    What a vivid stream of consciousness, with memories and imaginations chasing in. Ecstasy's scheduling and shots alone are worth five stars. But he talked too much: film as a true lie, the boundary between religion and art, childhood and love, the confusion of people. In fact, it is not difficult to remain simple, but people have to make choices, which is...

  • Emilie 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    【Exhibition at China Film Archive】The interweaving of dreams, memories, daydreams, sensuality and reality. It's not hard to understand, just see how to interpret it. I don't know if it's the film source itself or the equipment, but the sound is surprisingly loud and the music is deafening. The surreal, circus-like ending at the end was a blast. The photography and editing are outstanding and unforgettable. As for the plot, it should be the imaginary world tangled in the director's heart. Four...

  • Abigayle 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    Fellini's blood letter to the movie, the ultimate fan of the movie is hatred. The creative director struggles in the tug-of-war between reality, memory, dreams and imagination. The burden of his past reputation, the coercion of the producer and the playwright, the complicated personal relationship with the main actor, and the noise of the media make him busy and exhausted. . Dreamers are trapped by the dreams they create. Life is a circus that never sleeps. Time wields a whip and beats you, the...

  • Christopher 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    Exhausting reality, memories and dreams, it eventually becomes an endless film. The wonderful thing about the eight and a half films is that one day the director's experience will match the audience's, but no one knows when that will...

  • Julia 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    The main story of "Eight and a Half" can be called simple and clear. It is like an autobiography. In the film, Fellini seems to have transformed into the protagonist Guidu and completed his self-examination in middle age. But he splintered the reality, laced with childhood flashbacks and dream splices, that began with a breakaway from the obsession and ended with a relief that, while sleepy at times, ended up as a sideshow...

  • Lacey 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    Rewatch. The psychological journey of the director who created the crisis, two clues, the reality part is the director's preparation for making a movie, the director's dream or surreal part is a supplement to the reality part, and there is often a seamless connection between the stream of consciousness. way to show. The realistic part also has a surreal sense of absurdity. For example, the audition part also has a circus performance. This expression has been continued in Fellini's films, so it...

  • Maria 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    Sorrentino took so many elements from Fellini (well he took so many things from the entire Italian cinema). The lines are solidly written, but only appealing to patients with first-world problems. As mentioned in the Commentary track, the existentialist writer in the movie is a real French writer in real life. After eight and a half films, he stayed in Rome for the rest of his...

  • Kameron 2022-04-23 07:02:04

    At the beginning of the parking scene, I told the audience that it was an imagination, but then there was a filming scene, and childhood memories and current emotional relations kept coming out to disrupt the situation. The building is very modern, the actresses are more beautiful than each other (especially Claudia Cardinale and Anouk Aimée), the editing is magical and realistic, and the story goes deep into the subconscious, but for someone like me who has no wisdom roots, how long it is, it...

Extended Reading
  • Ronny 2022-10-07 17:37:21

    Yang Dechang's favorite, but none of my business

    I won't discuss what masterpieces are or not, but I have never seen such an excellent film before, and there is no such bells and whistles of cgi now, all relying on the most simple lens movement and editing to create an amazing "big production". I only watched the movie once, and because it was...

  • Antonia 2022-10-30 13:11:38

    Memory is this sanatorium

    The sanatorium is a symbol of memory, and after everyone gathered here, things from the past popped up from time to time. The departure of Mom and Dad is a huge blow, showing the powerlessness of life. Babies are happy. Men's understanding of happiness is to bathe in laughter, and it echoes that of...

8½ quotes

  • Guido: Enough of symbolism and these escapist themes of purity and innocence.

  • Guido: I thought my ideas were so clear. I wanted to make an honest film. No lies whatsoever. I thought I had something so simple to say. Something useful to everybody. A film to help bury forever all the dead things we carry around inside. Instead, it's me who lacks the courage to bury anything at all. Now I'm utterly confused, with this tower on my hands. I wonder why things turned out this way. Where did I lose my way? I really have nothing to say, but I want to say it anyway. Why don't those spirits of yours come to my aid? You always said they had lots of messages for me. Let them get to work.

    Rossella: I've already told you: your attitude is all wrong. You're curious in a childish way. You want too many guarantees.

    Guido: Fine, but what do they say?

    Rossella: The same as always. They're very reasonable. They know you very well.

    Guido: Well then?

    Rossella: They say you're free, but you have to choose. And you don't have much time. You have to hurry.