Sweet Life

The sweet life, La Dolce Vita, flat-mouthed Italian, I don't know how many times this word has been played. It was the perfume, the album, the name of an earlier collection, the two-episode videotape from the old library in the library, which was handed to me by the administrator. Subtitles from the 1960s, no dimming, barely visible on a black and white screen. Rome at that time was the same as Beijing today. It was colorful, heaven and earth, full of thriving construction sites and thriving boss Xiaomi, professional paparazzi, gorgeous little stars, prostitutes in the basement, desperate intellectuals, Unexplainable salon. In Fellini's mouth, the name La Dolce Vita appears so subtly and ironically, this is the Dolce Vita, this is the Dolce Vita of our time.

This movie reminds me of a sentence Su Li said in class very early: "Never think that your era is the best era". Mr. Su Li, we never thought our era was the best, but we don't know where the best era is. Those who control the past control the future, and those who control the present control the past. In the great era of rapid progress, I can only wait for the rolling wheels of history to take me to an unknown future, a well-calculated, protected and organized future. Journalist Marcello chose to accede to the WTO, while his friend Stanley chose to die. I can't keep my eyes open from Anita's astonishment in the Roman spring, we can only succumb to this indulgent, lazy, sweet and empty life?

Fellini likes symbols too much. He echoes the face of the girl by the sea and the image of Jesus at the beginning, but he keeps them silent without giving us any answers. And across the mountains and rivers, I am looking for your shadow endlessly behind the reflection of the beautiful scenery. What is the sweet life? Is it the snowy winter night in Beijing, the long trail of footprints under the street lamps, or the seagulls fluttering under the sunset at the seaside of San Diego today? I can't answer and I can't answer.

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