You can only have everything when you have nothing

Maureen 2022-09-07 22:42:39

Fantasy cannot bring about tangible changes, but it is hope for different changes, and when reality and dreams are intertwined, it can only leave fragments and helplessness in one place.

Sometimes life, as Graham Greene wrote, is nothing but anticipation of that simple tranquility and escape at the same time. But it's easier said than done, everyone has their own troubles, everyone is so tired but tirelessly fantasizes that all troubles will disappear with time. Concealment is deception, and confession is true selfishness.

When life drives you into a suffocating corner, fantasy is the only refuge, no one wants to be alone, so most people are lonely, escape and fantasy are all proofs of hope.

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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.