The first time I watched Fellini's film, it was "Eight and a Half". After more than half an hour, I couldn't understand anything, so I had to close the computer with a snap, thinking to myself: It seems that I still don't understand the master's film. . a little hurt.
This is the summer of 2018.
Last winter, I saw a screenshot from a movie: the actor was wearing clown makeup, red nose, sharp eyelashes, black and white striped top with Chaplin-style overalls, wide-eyed and innocent smile at the camera. Innocent and a little silly and helpless. I was touched, and I used my detective qualities when eating melons, and discovered the name of the movie: "The Great Road". After watching it, I found out that the director is Fellini. Actor Julietta is his wife. Clowns, circuses, love, journeys, innocence, hurt, "The Great Road" is a movie that refuses to generalize. I only watched it once, but it seemed like I had lived my whole life in it.
I really don't know how to describe "The Great Road", so I won't say it.
Talk about "Nights of Kabylia".
Giulietta's Kabylia (what a beautiful and lovely name), a little rude, a little grumpy, a little hunchbacked, and a little short, should have grown up in a closed, undisclosed but sincere little place with a real good friend . She wants to marry for love, even though she has been betrayed again and again and can't easily trust others. At the beginning of the film, she pulls a man to run on the grass by the river in summer. We see her from a distance, shaking her head, smiling brightly, swinging her arms freely, carrying a lady's small bag. Then, she was pushed into the river at once, her handbag was taken away, and the man (later we knew his name was George) ran away with 40,000 lire.
"Which man would push someone into a river for 40,000 lire!" After she was rescued, she shouted angrily to her good friend.
Then, she meets one or two other men and experiences things other than love at the same time. The experience confused her, but taught her to be cautious. She owns the tiny house she bought and is about to pay off her mortgage.
At this time, the director let Oscar appear: he is honest, nervous, and seems to be lonely, never asking her for anything, never letting her pay the bill. No matter how cautious she is, she is still eager to start a new life, love and marriage. She agreed to the proposal.
"We're going to open a small shop in xxx! He's already sold it, before he proposed to me! He's already planning our future before he proposes to me! I'm starting a new life! He Sold his house in his hometown, we are going to live in xxx, and I want to sell my house too! I can't let him do this alone! …Do you think my new headwear looks good? Flowers It cost me 1,400 lire." She told her friends while packing quickly, deliberately leaving the black owl statue on the table because "it will bring me bad luck".
......
The director took us to a woods suitable for a walk after dinner. Kabylia pulled the man forward happily, Kabylia put her hand on the man's shoulder, Kabylia smiled heartily... At the end of the woods is a cliff, and below the cliff is a rush the river. The man kept his head down and didn't speak, as if struggling for something.
"Can you swim?" the man asked, standing behind her.
"No! Did you know that once I fell into the river, and what you can't imagine is that I was pushed down!" Kabylia smiled.
Kabylia turned around. Kabylia was stunned. Kabylia saw the man's sweaty face!
......
Kabylia put the purse carefully into the man's hand, then backed away, trembling.
She went up to touch the man's face and said, "Oh, no! Are you going to kill me? Are you going to kill me?"
She knelt on the edge of the cliff a few steps away from the man, and shouted piercingly: "Kill me! Please, kill me! Kill me!"
She rushed to the man: "Kill me! Please!"
The man shook Kabylia away: "You know I don't want to hurt you!"
The man fled in a panic with his wallet.
......
Kabylia was lying on the edge of the cliff. Small Kabylia and seemingly endless water flow. Time freezes...
Kabylia stood up, headed down through the woods, and returned to the road. A group of teenagers playing and singing were passing by, like a circus. They surrounded Kabylia and walked with her. A tear condensed on Kabylia's left cheek, and Kabylia still smiled.
The movie ends here.
It's just the opening and closing scenes of the movie, and I use it to prove how genius Fellini is. The few scenes in the middle, so approachable, so kind and natural, but always secretly revealing shadows, making people sigh cautiously. The emotions in Fellini's films are not pretentious or exaggerated. They alternate in the same person, or transfer to other people, and are never contradictory or complicated.
This is the feeling I want to praise over and over again.
I want to chant it over and over until it's no longer precious.
I can't imagine it would no longer be precious.
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