There are few works that can make me teary-eyed and excited, and The Great Beauty is one of them.
This is the life silhouette of a 65-year-old urchin. It seems that he said nothing, but behind it is the best interpretation of "meaningless". Jep arrived in Rome at the age of 26, and from the beginning he was caught in a vortex of elegance and luxury. He wanted to be the king of high society, and he did so quickly and easily. And after that, he was wrapped in a world where he could spend his time drowsy. Why, in Jep's words, I was looking for something better and never found it. Jep seems to have tried his best to cross the hills in order to get rid of the barrenness on this side of the mountain. When he found that the other side of the mountain was also a desert, he stopped at the top of the mountain, which was quite comfortable and full of greenery, and never went to the top of the hill again. go ahead.
At the top of the hill, in the upper class, Jep is a typical nihilist, so that when the little girl asked Jep a simple "who are you" in the underground, Jep lost his words for a while, and after a short stop, he didn't bother , but raised his head and continued to move forward, perhaps continuing to pursue good things, or spinning in place.
In the restaurant, Ramona represents the power to face life with positivity and optimism; Andrea represents the power to constantly yearn to explore the essence of life and the world, but to break himself. Jep, as a reconciler of the two forces of nihilism, continued to resolve the profound questions Andrea raised for Ramona until he was also at a loss for words. This also precisely illustrates the antagonism and irreconcilability of the two forces.
Having said that, Jep is not lucky, after all, how many people are eager to be like Jep, and have their heads broken in order to enter the upper class; Where's the time to look for something better, to pursue and give meaning to life itself?
Is this movie beautiful? Is this world beautiful? Beautiful, of course beautiful. Spring night with a girl who admires her is beautiful for a moment, but after that there is infinite emptiness and sadness for the passing of youth; the memory of the seaside with your beloved is beautiful, but it will leave a permanent scar of regret in my heart; stripping with optimism and positivity The dancer's feelings are beautiful, but she has to endure the pain after her death, and go to the beach alone to complete the trip that should have been realized together. tempered. I want to use a fire to burn all these beautiful and ugly things to ashes, but this world has its own laws of operation. Accept its absurdity, its ugliness, its nothingness.
Rather than saying that director Paolo Sorrentino satirized the world, it is better to say that he just made the real world as it is. The Great Beauty is not just Jep's story, it's reality, it's Ukiyo-e; it's a hymn and an aria. It is not like a healing movie in the usual sense, showing you the most beautiful and innocent things in the world; instead, it presents a real world that is chaotic, corrupt, empty, full of lies and hypocrisy, and at the same time You look at it with playfulness and indifference. "A broken life, we are all on the verge of despair, all we can do is to take care of each other."
I really want to keep watching like this, watching one after another I understand, I don't understand, make people laugh, make people sad, follow Jep, from 65 to 70, from 70 to 80 Years old, 80 to 100, until dying in the arms of this movie...
This is how it aIways ends,
With death.
But first there was Iife.
Hidden beneath the bIah, bIah, bIah.
It is aII settIed beneath
the chitter chatter and the noise.
SiIence and sentiment.
Emotion and fear.
The haggard, inconstant spIashes of beauty.
And then the wretched squaIor and miserabIe humanity.
AII buried under the cover of the
embarrassment of being in the worId.
Beyond there is what Iies beyond.
I don't deaI with what Iies beyond.
Therefore Iet this noveI begin.
After aII...
it's just a trick.
Yes,
it's just a trick.
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