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Ofelia 2022-03-23 09:02:10

One brush (22/2/4)

Fellini's talent is astonishing, as he describes some of Marcello's moments of life, full of raucous feasts, magically bizarre events and desperate emptiness. Too free and not deliberate, suffering is a joke; loneliness is for fun; the gunshots of suicide are silent; human beings are like perpetual motion machines producing fresh flesh, singing and dancing drain the soul and release endless emptiness. I wonder, can I really resist the allure of a "high society" lifestyle, luxury, abundance, happiness, it's so comforting, and Fellini asks everyone that question at the end of the film.

How does he manage to be loosely structured without being boring or even conventional and complex and profound? (Suddenly thinking of "The Four Seas" that I was forced to watch recently, and now someone has said that he has another meaning for the stuttering director) 1. Each paragraph is amazing, with a huge amount of information and entertainment, with a good vision Enjoy; 2. In the same scene, the expression levels are rich and neat, such as: metaphors and fables of the clown's performance fragment + the father and the dancer (representing the surrounding environment or the entire Roman world) unrestrained carnival + Marcello also brings A little confusion of expectations; 3. Use front and back metaphors to connect loose stories, creating a feeling of coincidence and destiny mixed together, as if life itself. Such as: nightclub performances and carnival endings, recognizing angels and losing angels

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Extended Reading
  • Jesse 2022-03-28 09:01:04

    The great directors I've seen who can combine reality with bizarre imagination are fat dudes like Fellini and Fassbender. The series of festive drinks and parties is like a wonderful circus with no beginning and no end, and the pungent irony is hinted at by the light-hearted, sensual scenes. The Italian interpretation of the void in modernity is full of whimsy and wonder, so different from the French films that appeal to the same theme, yes, the flesh is full of metaphors.

  • Obie 2022-03-27 09:01:09

    From the perspective of the film and the director, it is the statue of Jesus flying over the Eternal City, overlooking all living beings; from the perspective of the story and the characters, it is the strange fish who came ashore to wake up the human dream, staring at the world of farewell, just like Marcello staring at the past life He ideal, it is difficult to rest his eyes, but "I have been dead for three days", it is completely dead (desperate). As Fellini himself said, his title is not meant to express "the sweet life", but "the sweet life". Life itself is hard, it's those occasional moments of sweetness and hope that drag people forward, but they wake up again and again (the American man's fist and slap after the sweetest fountain scene is the most obvious meaning), and finally The bitterness is too much, and the sweetness of honey can no longer be tasted - the voice of the girl on the other side is covered by the waves of life, and he will never go back. As for the audience watching this step-by-step fall, whether to bring themselves into the statue of Jesus or a dead fish, it depends on whether they are lucky enough in real life. ps. Paparazzi paparazzi word comes from this

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!