What is civilization? both tranquility and abyss

Crawford 2022-04-23 07:02:33

Dilapidated ancient buildings, helicopters flying over with the stone statue of Jesus hanging, shadows are sometimes projected on the dilapidated walls, helicopters rumbled past modern buildings one after another, urbanization and cold...

What exactly is civilization? Is it a horde of modern journalists scrambling to report on the miracle of two small children seeing the apparition of the Virgin Mary, and helpless city dwellers flocking to pray for the blessing of the Virgin? Is it like Stan who has family and children, has books and friends, has no contacts, and finally rejects the world by killing two children and then committing suicide? Or like Marcelo who lingered in different women or the so-called high social circles, and finally got stuck in this circle, tired, tired but unable to extricate himself, just as dull as the eyes of the strange fish at the end of the film...

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  • Elenora 2021-12-30 17:21:44

    Three brushes. 1. Fellini’s prose-style narrative, which downplays the plot and pays attention to the description of the situation, uses Marcello (work and emotional experience) born as a commoner as a point of view to cut into the arrogant and prosperous Roman upper-class society with a lack of spiritual world. The related fragments of life constitute an urban symphony that composes the ukiyo-e of all living beings in the wind and moon. Focusing on the lifestyle and spiritual appearance formed by the characters in a specific environment, it gradually extends to the exploration and analysis of the value of religion, lust, family, media and self-existence. 2. The symbolic meaning of the main characters: Emma from a civilian background and the enslaved party; Maddalena from the bourgeoisie and the enslaved party; Silvia, a superstar with a simple and pure heart; Steiner is anxious and fearful The incarnation, and the foreign girl who laughs at the beach, Paula, is the guilt and homesickness in Marcello's heart and the romance and innocence that he can never go back to. 3. Day and night, like a dream, seemingly sweet life, after the passing of life one after another, only to face the lonely nothingness. |You are Eve, mother, sister, lover, friend, angel, Satan, earth, my home. (9.5/10)

  • Chesley 2022-03-28 09:01:04

    A person who yearns for literature became a gossip reporter and then made an advertisement. The more I read it, the more I feel like my own situation. I really don't know which day I will slip into the morning after the balloon burst.

The Sweet Life quotes

  • Sylvia: [when a reporter asked her, "How do you sleep, with pajamas or nightgown?"] Neither. I sleep only in 2 drops of French perfume.

  • Emma: [to Paparazzo] How can you be this way? It's not possible to be like you! Hyenas! You're worse than hyenas! You don't respect anyone! You make me sick! Cowards!