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Alysa 2021-12-18 08:01:12

What impressed me the most in the movie was the bickering between the people and the female writer Stefania who wrote 11 novels and a party history. First, Stefania said that she was full of positive energy.

Everyone is bored with dementia. Only jep said harshly: because we care about you and don't want to embarrass you. All your rhetoric, these serious ostentation and arrogance... these acrimonious words... are all signs of fragility. It is a kind of lack. The main thing is too fake. We care about you and understand you. All of us here are fake, but not like you. We just talk about nonsense and trivial things, because we don't want to be a fake model and enjoy ourselves.
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stefania, mother and woman... You are 53 years old and live a broken life like all of us. You shouldn't be high above, the dog sees people low. It should feel the same with us. We are all on the verge of despair. All you can do is take care of each other. Staying with each other, joking... what do you think?

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This old dandy's words are terrible to make people tremble. No one excerpted this paragraph, I reviewed the movie again.

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    Jep Gambardella: This is how it always ends. With death. But first there was life. Hidden beneath the blah, blah, blah. It's all settled beneath the chitter chatter and the noise. Silence and sentiment. Emotion and fear. The haggard, inconstant flashes of beauty. And then the wretched squalor and miserable humanity. All buried under the cover of the embarrassment of being in the world, blah, blah, blah... Beyond there is what lies beyond. I don't deal with what lies beyond. Therefore... let this novel begin. After all... it's just a trick. Yes, it's just a trick.

  • Santa: Madam, I took a vow of poverty. And you can't talk about poverty... you have to live it.