This movie is about the situation of a director before making a new movie, and the anxiety state of the preparatory work. Pressures from various aspects, including unspoken rules, the balance between art and business, their true expression,
the director's mind wandering, imagination, dreams and childhood memories under the pressure of reality are interspersed throughout the process. Nostalgia for childhood, recurring, parents, siblings, grandma, bathing, naughty. It shows that the protagonist wants to escape from reality, wants to go back to the past, and does not want to grow up. Being cared for by many female characters, like an emperor. There was also a hole in the ground, and his parents got into the hole, another world, very interesting design, of course, reminiscent of Kafka's [hole in the ground].
The scenes are grand, empty, and guided by clowns. The Joker is designed like the Hand of Fate, which also comes out at the end and sends everyone to the character's place where they should go.
There is a confrontation between feminism and masculinity, betrayal, the search for true love, and reflections on how to love.
The influence of the church on people, the control, the dictatorship, the youthful yearning for love, the Rumba.
The symbol in the play, a builder's high-rise building, is like a mirage.
From the beginning of being tired of dealing with various relationships and being forced to film, to escaping, and then to being inspired to do it voluntarily and spontaneously, this is a process of self-awakening, redemption, and nirvana of the soul. We have reason to believe that the director in the play can make a good film that can express
himself. In the end, Fellini also succeeded!
At the beginning of the play, a little girlfriend of Guidu's father, who studies philosophy, is writing a book about the anxiety taught by men. Does this vaguely reveal the director's true thoughts?
Yes, men's anxiety or embarrassment!
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