Beautiful city. land of ruins

Adolfo 2022-04-19 09:02:08

Seeing that I finally felt like I was watching Fellini's eight and a half films, JEP finally started writing. Inherited Fellini's philosophy of form over content. Although this movie should be considered a stream of consciousness, the scene switching scene in the first hour was too uncomfortable. It was called a dazzling technique, and it almost shut down the movie without a swearing word.
But after an hour the whole rhythm feels much more comfortable.
Rome, for JEP is a city of despair, many people ask him why he no longer writes novels. He always said because he couldn't find the most beautiful thing.
It's like experiencing too many people, things, things in life. Came to Rome at the age of 26. All good things have been seen through. All that's left is the ruins behind this beautiful city. Like JEP's heart. The splendid upper-class life could not conceal the emptiness of its disheartenedness. So, every night, singing and singing, drunk life and dream death. Thus, silence has become an emotion, and love has become a fear. In the resonance of communicating with the world, the words really seem pale and powerless, how can you blame him for not being able to write?
The delicate ending is the climax and gold of the whole film. I thought that the holy old nun could clear the doubts with a sentence "Do you know why I only eat tree roots? Because the roots are very important"
to wake up the dreamer, what is the most beautiful scenery, architecture ,woman. . . The most beautiful is the innocence that year with the person you love the most!
Well, Dido's ninth film is done, and JEP's new novel has begun. As for whether it will win the Oscar, it is estimated that it is not very suitable for the appetite of the academic school. . .

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Extended Reading
  • Opal 2022-03-27 09:01:09

    It opposes interpretation and refuses to be confined in any system of meaning. The camera moves and floats at will, and you don't know what kind of situation or atmosphere the next shot will take. Just like life, there is no meaning at all. You say it has meaning, it has meaning. Flaubert wants to write a book that says nothing, and Sorrentino can naturally make a movie that doesn't say anything. This is a movie that is understood through emotions. You can't say that you understand it completely, but you can still fully understand it, so you get it.

  • Dangelo 2021-12-18 08:01:12

    Re-watch on October 6, 2021; 3.5; To all the beauty and misery, love, beauty and death can all trigger a deep "sense of pity and compassion"-"Youth gives me time and death", which condenses the time of a thousand years Roaming in the eternal city, like looking back at the entire history of mankind, or all my life so far, majestic or small, glorious or humble, traveling through the incomparably magnificent lens; nostalgia is meaningless, but for the sight of death at a glance For the people, it seems that nostalgia is the only thing worth doing. The end of the magnificent blooming is deathly death. The end of the wanton carnival is always empty. He is in the ruins of time, and what comes to his heart is always forever. It was the first heartbeat under the moonlight.

The Great Beauty quotes

  • Lello Cava: Italy - what are we famous for overseas? Fashion an pizza. A country of weavers and grocers.

  • Stefania: Rome is the only city in the world where Marxism has truly existed. You can't excel over others for more than a week, you're immediately brought back to mediocrity. Rome is pure collectivism.

    Jep Gambardella: Pure collectivism. Stefania, what utter nonsense! Do you know that Flaubert wanted to write a book about nothing? If he'd met you, we'd have had a great book, what a shame!