Questions to ask yourself

Kristoffer 2022-12-21 01:26:58

After Fellini's "Eight and a Half", I began to get it very clearly, no matter a movie or a literary work, it is not necessarily a perfect logic line to be better understood, I began to enter Fellini's world , about his childhood, his marriage, his views on feelings, his troubles, his fantasies about women, sympathy for society, and so on. What he sees, what he thinks, can be displayed in a collage-like way, in a dream, or in reality, and can do whatever he wants, and then all this constitutes the whole of this person. (Perhaps watching "Reminiscence of the Time Is Like Water" is also the same feeling?) Fellini's "Eight and a Half" is simply asking himself questions, and then trying to answer them. Watching his films, I always felt that he asked himself a lot of questions, and he asked questions that he himself did not know how to answer, and then went to explore. The scene in which the protagonist points a gun at himself and shoots in the eight and a half li can be regarded as the director's death once. Then face everything again.

(Recognizing that people's daily thoughts are themselves a stream of consciousness, it is difficult to avoid thinking about things.)

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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.