Experience life and death in a beautiful city

Marty 2022-04-19 09:02:08

The Italian-French co-produced feature film "City of Absolute Beauty" is actually quite prosaic, and the plot is not very obvious. And it's almost like poetry to me. The whole film allows the audience to appreciate the extraordinary beauty of the city of Rome, which has a history of more than 2,700 years. It also uses the city as the background to ponder the glitz of reality and the true meaning of love and death from the perspective of a writer. So it's not enough to just pay attention to the sheer beauty of Roman architecture and artwork in the film. The film shows in many scenes how the people living in this beautiful city are now indulged in the fanatical pursuit of modernity. The writer who had been caught in this pursuit in his late seventies slowed down at this time. Wrote a famous novel, but never wrote it again, because he thought there was no more to write. Or at the end of his life, he who had played a game of life recalled that his favorite girlfriend when he was young abandoned him for no apparent reason. How keen he was to enter and leave the various social places in this beautiful city, and now he realizes that the years of life passing through are like flowers and flowers, and will eventually present the void of the world. When the love that does not make love is also true love, the person he loves dies. Indeed, in all things in the world, things that don't go well are always nine out of ten, no matter what they see, including religion, art, and love, or they can't save mankind, and finally he decided to re-hold the pen to write the second part of his life and maybe the last one. Ministry book. This movie is quite meaningful, and its dialogue and monologue are very readable and need to be read slowly, so I decided to watch this movie again in a quiet night.

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The Great Beauty quotes

  • Jep Gambardella: To this question, as kids, my friends always gave the same answer: "Pussy". Whereas I answered "The smell of old people's houses". The question was "What do you really like the most in life?" I was destined for sensibility. I was destined to become a writer. I was destined to become Jep Gambardella.

  • Jep Gambardella: Madame Ardant!

    Fanny Ardant: [after a long pause] Bonne nuit.