The spiritual life of the protagonist is like the dead fish on the beach, alive but as if it were dead. Although surrounded by different women every day, I still can't find love. Journalists snatch information like maggots while ignoring basic human morals. Faced with the desolation of life and spiritual emptiness, women can't give him the answer, religion can't give him the answer, his father can't give him the answer, and neither can his best friend. Friends are even like Wang Shuo's mini-novels - "He is bright and beautiful, The family was happy until one day I shot myself in the head with a gun." Post-war Italy seems to be prosperous, but the people have experienced a spiritual crisis after being drunk with money. Twenty-one years ago, there was Renoir's "Rules of the Game", and now there is "La Dolce Vita." Sex in a psychic, sex in a poor house, lust everywhere, emptiness everywhere, and at a fancy party, where he finally breaks out, it's taken as a good joke and not taken seriously. But what is unique about Fellini is that he always describes the sadness and loneliness after the hustle and bustle, and at the same time always gives you unexpected hope. At the end, the innocent waitress waved at him on the opposite side. He didn't walk over, but stayed in his life. Nevertheless, the director still let people see the seeds of hope.
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