life is sweet, life is nothingness

Milan 2022-04-23 07:02:33

"The most miserable life is better than living in a society where everything is precisely calculated and closely guarded." . As a famous masterpiece, this film contains all the important themes of Fellini. The whole film is based on the life of journalist Marcello in various social occasions in Rome for several days and nights, and coldly depicts the real situation of people in modern society, the material The luxury is nothing but spiritual emptiness, the pleasure of indulgence only brings emotional numbness, the mediocre daily life cannot cover up the confusion of belief, the excitement on the surface is floating with a decadent soul, modern people seem to be separated from the earth, floating in the boundless In the sea of ​​confusion, there is no hope and no sustenance. The so-called sweetness of life is essentially the emptiness of existence. .

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

    The insanity behind the economic miracle, the spiritual poverty of the upper class. Existentialism, Freud's three-layered psychological structure. The non-linear narration of the form is scattered and the spirit gathers, the structure of the mobile exhibition hall, and the combination of point and surface. Objective farsightedness, distanced gestures, simplified sound, spiritual essence, Paparazzi's origins.

  • Lera 2022-03-23 09:02:10

    #FelliniCentenaryBirthScreen##ArchivePhoto#Finally, the big screen can see the famous scene in film history-blonde beauty playing in the water. For the charming American actress Sylvia, Fellini has some references to Marilyn Monroe (such as using perfume as pajamas) The classic answer to a reporter's question), and the point of the movie is the confusion and absurdity of the modern entertainment media "creating gods", which is exactly the same as the hype star scandal. It is the Virgin Mary who was later chased and intercepted by the media. It's all Fellini's ridicule and questioning of the modern media. Digging deeper, is how corrupt human nature confronts the powerful nothingness, such as Marcello, a columnist with chaotic relations between men and women, whose sensual depraved life contrasts with another noble writer with a happy family, but the writer's suicide leads him to More and more painful and lost, until the scene at the end of the film, the sea monster salvaged by everyone on the beach (symbolizing alienated humanity?), the gesture and smile of the little girl in the distance, Marcello's instant self-awareness - jumping out of everything can save yourself, let go , like the old writer in The Beautiful City.

The Sweet Life quotes

  • Poetess at Steiner's Party: The great thing is to burn, and not to freeze.

  • Poetess at Steiner's Party: [Le tre grandi evasioni -- fume, bere, letto.] The three great escapes -- smoking, drinking, bed.