The sweet life, or the sweetness of life, has nothing to do with the sweetness as we normally understand it. If Marcello, the protagonist of the film, has an affair with a big star, and the extravagant life with his friends is also considered a kind of sweetness, then the title of the film is worthy of its name. Intercourse with a beautiful female star in the house of a sex worker you have never met, hugging in a fountain in the streets of Rome with a glamorous beauty from Sweden, in a dance hall with a father who has not seen each other a few times. Drinking with women for fun, exploring the castle late at night with a group of descendants of the Pope, and being hooked up by an old woman. . . Too many plots like this left me in a fog, thinking that his life is so worthy of a rich and colorful description, what exactly is the director trying to tell us? And I, who do not understand the language of the film, often get lost in the praise of other moviegoers. I've heard people say how well Fellini handles that such a long film doesn't get boring. I agree with the second half of the sentence, even if I have no interest in the movie, it can attract me to watch it. This kind of feature film is not the kind of suspense, or the plot is very compact, and the echoes are closely connected, but it shows you a person's life, the fragments of life that happened at different times in a few days, and the contradictions between the characters are It was there at the beginning of the movie, and it is still there at the end. Tell us about this person who, despite struggling and trying to escape this life, has finally settled with it. After the movie ended, when everyone communicated, some people said that the movie was really hopeless, and Marcello did not break out of his original life in the end, he still lived in absurdity and lewdness, and even one moviegoer said , the same is true in today's society, and the lives of some rich people are also full of extravagant sounds and absurd decadence. At this time, there is a voice in my heart, is there so despair? Why can't I see it at all. It was he who chose this life. First of all, do we need to deny that most of us ordinary people can't experience the pleasure of that extravagant life? For a life we have never tried, can we draw the final and true conclusion just by obsessing? Besides, even if we really don't like this kind of life, can it be concluded that Marcello doesn't like this kind of life? oh, sorry, Marcello did show his disgust with these lives in the middle of the film, and at the party he turned away with a sad expression on his face. But maybe it's just a click? Maybe he just doesn't like this kind of life occasionally, but basically he likes this kind of life? Who knows? We live an upward life every day, a life of regular work, a life of ordinary marriage and children, don’t we have a life of Little complaints about the boredom and boredom of life? Does it mean that we don't like this kind of life when we complain about the boring and boring life? This logic is not right at all. No matter what people think, what Fellini thinks, I just think that if Marcello really doesn't like his life, he can change it, but he doesn't, so I don't think he doesn't dislike this sweet Life.
As reminded by a viewer sitting next to me, I do appreciate the metaphors or metaphors used at the end of the film. After dawn, Marcello went to the beach with his friends. He met the girl who symbolized pure life. She was opposite him, and the two were just on both sides of the bay. She waved to him , he couldn't hear her. In fact, two people can walk together. The walking distance between them is not 5 cm per second, but it will not exceed 50 meters. He didn't, she didn't, he kept saying to her, I can't hear what you said. After talking several times, he finally left the beach at the urging of his friends. You see, he can't hear what she's saying at all, if she is a symbol of pure life, if he can hear some of her words, I'm also convinced that he wants to live that kind of pure life, but he doesn't listen at all not. There is no pure life in his consciousness at all. Can this ending be called a tragedy? Just because Marcello isn't living the life we think he should be, is it a tragedy. He didn't live the life he longed to live, so it can be called a tragedy. But in this film, I can't see what he yearns for at all. Because he couldn't hear what the girl was saying at all, and he had no intention of approaching that girl at all.
From what I understand, it's also right that this is called "Sweet Life". A person has been living the life that he used to live by self-study. Although there have been small complaints and hesitations, he still lives this sweet life. Life goes on and on.
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