Talk about eight and a half

Emery 2022-12-21 18:46:12

Director Guido was working on a new play, but it was terminated because he could not create a satisfactory idea.
On the surface, it is like the mockery of Guido by the people around him. Guido's creations are bland and meaningless. He has devoted himself to this profession for many years but lacks talent. deep worry. When everyone is enjoying their freedom to the fullest, only the vastness of loneliness and chaos, as well as schizophrenia, are slowly creeping in front of them. The "liberation" of the spiritual world has bizarrely led to the decline of morality and the fragile relationship between people. Human nature (such as the instinct to love) is being lost day by day. People don't know what they need in the end, they only see life. in rapid depletion.
The theme of "Eight and a Half" is very similar to "The Sweet Life". Every person in Chinese clothes is like an ugly and huge bat shark being dragged up from the sea. The biggest feature of Fellini's film is probably the thick With a strong atmosphere of ridicule, finally, Fellini also focused on the issue of "existence", or died, or tried to find the lost instinct.

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Extended Reading
  • Immanuel 2022-04-23 07:02:04

    The great film history masterpiece is not only because the director reviews and retells his own life with the repeated intersection of dreams, memories and reality in an autobiographical film (biopic) with a capacity of more than 2 hours, but also because this is a movie movie of. On the one hand, it covers almost all the motifs that filmmakers are concerned about at the moment, such as childhood, gender, love, religion, race, etc.; of creative anxiety and inspiration, and tortures himself in an introspective and slightly brutal way, and more importantly, at the end, tells us that there is no film, and life itself is a celebration. It is precisely because of this that the final group photo of all the characters, as well as the moment when the director reconciles with his lover and his wife, points not only to the director himself, but also to all of us who watch the movie - acknowledging our own weakness and exposing the lies of life. After that, let us still love life bravely.

  • Johnnie 2022-04-22 07:01:26

    Obsessive-compulsive self-referential, film/reality/movie reality, about meaningless meaning, evading moral dialectics and looking directly at the self... "Eight and one-half" also explains something that was not said in the film The thing is that there is an aesthetic verification that integrates the above without being out of order.

8½ quotes

  • Guido: You came just in time. Why are you smiling? Suppose I told you... Claudia.

  • Luisa Anselmi: Don't explain. I didn't ask you anything. Just spare me the shame of hearing you swear to a mess of lies.