This is the sweetness of life

Deja 2022-11-08 11:27:49

Fellini, the second session of the Silk Road Film Festival, "Roman Style Painting", a record about the ancient city of Rome. What's interesting is that Xi'an and Rome are also world-famous ancient cities. In the BBC Du Fu's documentary, Xi'an is described as Baghdad and Jerusalem in the Far East. Xi'an and Rome even have the same urban road planning, and they are sister cities. interesting.

"Roman Style Painting" is about spectators and clowns. Anyone is an actor on the stage, showing off their madness and trying to please others. Whether he is an actor, a clown, a bishop, a pope or a prostitute, the director is also possible?. You are always accepting the scrutiny, selection, consumption and even rejection of others.

Ancient Rome, the collision of classical and modern civilization, war and peace, poverty and prosperity, the interweaving of laughter, indulgence and suffering. This peaceful city is the stage for everyone here. You face the audience's spurning and laugh at any time. But laughing, swearing, joy, anger, sorrow, and even death are all life. Everyone has the right to live his own life, to act in his own play, to do his own work, even if there is a booming air defense sirens above his head, and bombs that fall at any time. Still have to keep laughing, enjoy life, and meet your own needs. To love, to revel, to win honor with a fist, even if the body is hurt, it will be questioned as worthless.

Rome is a rich city. If you want to experience Rome, experience life, and feel life and power, it is better to ride a motorcycle and roar past the city’s monuments, disappearing into the night and dawn. The film ends with a motorcycle team riding around Rome late at night, which is the best interpretation of the vitality of the ancient city!

In 1960, Fellini, who was not confused in his 40s, asked what was "Sweetness of Life". In 1972, the 52-year-old Fellini, who passed the fate of his life, found the answer in "Roman Style Painting".

This year is 2020, it is the 100th anniversary of Fellini aka Fei Fei’s birth, Viva la Vida!

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Extended Reading

Roma quotes

  • Narrator: On the other side of the Tiber, perhaps the most famous section of Rome. We have come here to complete our portrait of the city. It is where, every Summer, they celebrate the Festa de Noantri. Noantri means "ourselves." Appropriately, the Romans celebrate themselves.

  • Narrator: [at Festa de Noantri] Of course, people eat and drink. What else? Not much different from a thousand years ago or the beginning of this picture or ever and ever.