La Strada--A Lover Who Does Not Understand Love

Demario 2022-06-09 12:50:48

It was a beautiful world where everyone was yet to be malevolent to their core. It was a gloomy story, where a crystal eye didn't have a clue of her peerless beauty, or how this world swirled and twirled. Everyone seemed fairly cordial, yet not kind enough. The dummy laugher appeared better, but heaven knows what it could be like to stay with him. The grumpy and coarse chain-breaker got blood on his hand, but he just scrambled for an unprofitable living.

He knew this wasn't the end, and he may have just faced those broken pieces inside him for the first time in his life. If only he could see how his newly acquired hooker looked at her, if only he could hear the nun say, "You follow your husband, I follow myself," and respond, "We are all following someone," if only he could be vicarious of her conversation with the "dummy." If only that pig iron chain wasn't the only thing that owned his originality. Giulietta, you have the most beautiful eyes in the world.

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La Strada quotes

  • Zampanò: [reciting his act by rote before a crowd] Here we have a piece of chain that is a quarter of an inch thick. It is made of crude iron, stronger than steel. With the simple expansion of my pectoral muscles, or chest, that is, I'll break the hook.

    [collecting money from the crowd]

    Zampanò: Thank you, thank you. Now, to do this feat, I must fill myself up like a tire. If a blood vessel should break, I would spit blood. For instance, in Milan a man weighing 240 pounds lost his eyesight doing this trick. That is because the optical nerves take a beating, and once you lose your eyes, you are finished. If there's any delicate person in the audience, I would advise him to look away 'cause there could be blood.

    [with seemingly great effort, he breaks the chain]

  • Gelsomina's Mother: She's not like Rosa. But she's a good girl, poor thing. She'll do what she's told. She just came out a little strange. But, if she eats every day, maybe she'll get better.