There is boundless energy in filming. Fellini stood at the dividing line between the neorealism of his early films and the exaggerated visual orgies of later films. His autobiography "8 1/2", filmed three years after "Sweet Life", is a companion piece, but even more famous: the protagonist at that time was already a film director, and now he is a Young profit-seeking newspaper reporter. Nino Rota's music and subject matter are seamlessly integrated. Sometimes religious carols, sometimes jazz, sometimes rock; lurking in the music are tubas and organs, and fragments of popular songs ("Blizzard," and even "Bells Ringing") Jingle"). The characters are always on the move, and Rota accompanies their processions and parades with music. As for what Marcello throws away at the end of "The Sweetness of Life": he doesn't notice that Paula has something else to suggest when she tells him that she's willing to accept his good intentions for him to learn to type. He didn't understand that Paula's innocence and openness to life could bring him a fresh perspective, which in turn transformed his cynical destructive attitude into a sensible constructive one. She is Marcello's nostalgia and no longer romantic.
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