The film master Fellini's work "Eight and a Half" (8½) has a certain autobiographical color. The confused director in the film finally found his own director, which is exactly Fellini's summary of himself. Through his characters and films, he dialogues with himself and reconciles with his entanglement about life and art. After watching the whole film, I have been pondering a question, in the eyes of this master, what is the true meaning of art? I dare not interpret the works of this master easily with my own understanding, but I believe that Fellini wants to tell us that art is life, and life is art. If we want to discuss what art is, we must first discuss what life is. As the saying goes, art comes from life. And life is the process of life, an element that is always present in life. I understand life as a kind of gorgeous performance, no matter whether it will get a lot of audience, whether the opening and ending are gorgeous or not, it is worth watching and discussing quietly. The director in the film, under the constant pressure of the producer, lover, wife, director, etc., keeps thinking, and sometimes, he recalls his childhood. In fact, everyone has a deep impression of something in their childhood, and this memory may become a reflection, appearing on the "screen" of memory. What a person experiences in childhood will have an impact on people's psychology. When they are ignorant, they will be enlightened in a certain way because of some things, perhaps in terms of sex or belief. Watching obese women dancing, being chastised by the church for contact with so-called "devils", people with eyes looking at treasures, mysterious spells, and so on, have always affected him. I understand the subtle feeling that something in my childhood was like adding various reagents to a test tube that combined to get a result that might be messy. When I sometimes recall things from the past, my thinking becomes unreasonable, like in an endless labyrinth with no way out. And this result is full of beauty, whether it is deformed beauty or transparent beauty, it is full of a certain sense of art. As an individual, people will encounter countless kinds of environments and countless kinds of people in their own lives, and people themselves are the audience of all these. The director in the film has no obvious emotional fluctuations from the beginning to the end, but he is constantly entangled in his heart, entangled in the fact that he does not know how to love, why he has no inspiration, entangled in sex, belief, entangled Are you just lying? People are the audience of their own lives, and they tend to accumulate and settle in the whole process, and finally they become enlightened and reconcile with themselves. There will be artistic moments in life, and there will also be many burnt moments that haunt you and can't get out of it. A variety of factors combine to form a complex and huge life course. Chaos sometimes afflicts sensitive artists and constantly stimulates their thinking to diverge. The end of chaos without logic and order is simplicity. At the end of the film, the director finally found what he wanted to express, simplicity. The gunshot killed the contradictory self, the chaos finally ended, the chaos in his heart was dismantled along with the space base, his expression relaxed, he told the truth to his wife, stopped lying, stopped acting The director went to tell the story, and he excitedly directed the funny band to come and go, the picture became concise, without the crowd and aggressive questioning, the music of the band was also cheerful and relaxed. He understood, he reached the ultimate state of life, calm and simple.
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