behind the noise

Ernie 2022-12-06 01:43:22

The dialogue in Fellini's films is too much and too trivial, and the director often uses the actor's mouth to express himself. The characters in the movie are all like chatter, behind the clamor of voices, it is evocative, and some monologues are thought-provoking.
Music is classic. Why do you want to be happy? That's not your patent. Who says you should be happy in life? Great philosophers did not write that "everything in the world is worrying". There is nowhere to escape but the church. (Movies and Lies) Life is always full of chaos. In fact, there is no source of survival in life. It is better to give up than to survive. What we need after renting is clean and disinfected things. We are suffocated by the language of pictures and sounds. We cannot come and go in nothingness. The essence of any art is to go from there to nothing. All qualified artists should declare that they are committed to silence. Life is a celebration, let's spend it together!
We are always thinking about life, and at the moment of epiphany, we are reborn from Nirvana.

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Extended Reading
  • Christopher 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    Exhausting reality, memories and dreams, it eventually becomes an endless film. The wonderful thing about the eight and a half films is that one day the director's experience will match the audience's, but no one knows when that will be.

8½ quotes

  • Claudia: I don't understand. He meets a girl that can give him a new life and he pushes her away?

    Guido: Because he no longer believes in it.

    Claudia: Because he doesn't know how to love.

    Guido: Because it isn't true that a woman can change a man.

    Claudia: Because he doesn't know how to love.

    Guido: And above all because I don't feel like telling another pile of lies.

    Claudia: Because he doesn't know how to love.

  • Writer: You see, what stands out at a first reading is the lack of a central issue or a philosophical stance. That makes the film a chain of gratuitous episodes which may even be amusing in their ambivalent realism. You wonder, what is the director really trying to do? Make us think? Scare us? That ploy betrays a basic lack of poetic inspiration.