Compared with the road, it is indeed more realistic. This time, "rooting down" is very thorough. A large number of shots directly show the life status of the poor people at the bottom of society, such as the poor peasant women and the miserable families of lame girls. , And groups of farmers are chasing "liar officials" to ask for their promised house. (Fellini really tried his best to stop someone calling him "traitor of neorealism"?)
I feel that this movie and Kabylia Night are both in the first half of the movie, but the overall impression is that the first half is not like watching Kabylia Night and the rhythm is slow, and the second half is not like it. It was so moved and shocked to see Kabylia Night. At the beginning of the film, the audience's appetite was stunned. After all, the beginning of the film was three scammers who scam the poor, and they would always dangle the audience's interest to see how they eat their own fruits.
The three swindlers took all the wealth of the poor and squandered them, and came to participate in the extravagant party held by the big local tyrants who were also scammers. On the one hand, the people at the bottom are in dire straits, and on the other hand, it is the pleasure-seeking of scammers. This irony is also very realistic. "Picasso"'s love and sense of responsibility for his wife and daughter are more forgiving. Robert's inner monologue also shows their helplessness in choosing to be a liar. It also reflects the confusion of the youth groups in Italian society after the war.
Of course, August is the most dramatic tension. The ending reversal is a magical stroke. As expected, it broke the audience’s only illusion about human nature. The audience’s newly ignited hope is to learn that he really took it. The money was drowned in cold water. However, when the audience saw him being beaten up and happy, Fellini used a lot of shots to show his misery before his death, perhaps to sublimate the theme of the film and raise the audience's emotions towards the character into social issues. After all, Everyone is a product of the times, and the choices made by everybody are unavoidable for the times.
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