The Undecipherable Fellini, Reivew on 8½

Unexpectedly, there will be eight and a half of Fellini's films at the Shanghai Film Festival. I have watched his DVD, and I have also read countless film reviews and interpretations about it. I still buy a ticket and enter the venue with the excitement of a rendezvous with a lover. The appearance on the big screen, nightmare and reality, worry and joy, what Fellini is saying, what he wants to say, seems to be less important, the important thing is that this is his movie, unique, no one can fully interpret him, interpret his world? Or the world we thought he showed us, the famous flashback, and the reality that was extremely depressed, irritable and helpless before. Later, David Lynch, Woody Allen, who I liked, may have suffered from him unknowingly. The influence of it, we have been confused about our career and marriage, the wife's black-rimmed glasses are a kind of serious, imprisoned shackles, the wife who can't communicate and the lover who still can't communicate, maybe there is a serious look now. For the incommunicable audience of the film, his expression is so naked, especially in the last paragraph, all the women appear together, a simple and bold imagination of a man. Looking at Fellini, for me, it's just a form, a form of worship for his movies, all Fellini fans may be in such a mood to straighten their backs and go through this 152-minute long journey, a little bit. Whether it was dull or difficult to understand, there was still a small applause at the end and a few audience members who had not left for a long time. This is the charm of Fellini.

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