eight and a half

Joe 2022-09-24 19:41:52

It feels like everything behind is revealed from the first scene of the picture, the endless car, the chaotic and nervous person, he seems to be dead and not dead, but he is pulled back like a balloon, or this may be a "dream" again ( I always think that the exploration of art is more important than reflection, because everything is meaningless and endless). Interspersed with illogical character states and complexes, it is still chaotic and neurotic, just like the director in the play wants to conceive his own movie (want him to be filled with something, profound...). When you stare into the abyss, the abyss also stares into you. Everyone in it talks a lot, and there are a lot of public and private affairs, as if they are asking for their own specific roles, but the soul and creator of the movie are also full of confusion and pain. Maybe he has always been like a balloon that was placed? All this is like a movie arranged for the director from the perspective of God, and he is in it again and again. I also feel that there is a state of questioning "anti-ideal", but it is the greater confusion and even the sense of nihility brought about by this state. Anyway, I feel like living is the hardest, so I feel that he is not really lost into the abyss, and there is a beautiful voice in it (be quiet, listen to the sound of the fountain) Maybe, guess. In the last few scenes, when his wives and concubines are in groups, I don't know why I feel like I see something clearer, it seems that he is somewhat reconciled with some real reality, but I don't know. A really good movie is worth watching as many times as it takes a genius to spend time and thinking. It is the life of a master, the most worth watching thing in the world, the most cost-effective business, and the diamonds given for nothing. Is existence, of course there are many differences between existence and existence.

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  • Guido: Enough of symbolism and these escapist themes of purity and innocence.

  • Guido: I thought my ideas were so clear. I wanted to make an honest film. No lies whatsoever. I thought I had something so simple to say. Something useful to everybody. A film to help bury forever all the dead things we carry around inside. Instead, it's me who lacks the courage to bury anything at all. Now I'm utterly confused, with this tower on my hands. I wonder why things turned out this way. Where did I lose my way? I really have nothing to say, but I want to say it anyway. Why don't those spirits of yours come to my aid? You always said they had lots of messages for me. Let them get to work.

    Rossella: I've already told you: your attitude is all wrong. You're curious in a childish way. You want too many guarantees.

    Guido: Fine, but what do they say?

    Rossella: The same as always. They're very reasonable. They know you very well.

    Guido: Well then?

    Rossella: They say you're free, but you have to choose. And you don't have much time. You have to hurry.