If "Eight and a Half" is the embodiment of Fellini's surrealism, then "The Great Road" and "Nights of Cabiria" are two peaks that realism cannot surpass.
Fellini is a master of spatialism. Fellini's shooting techniques can be described as de-close-up. In his works, you can't find even a single frame of close-up shots, basically medium and long-range shots. . Fellini is a Marxist, and he firmly believes that people cannot survive without the environment, so you can enter his world through Fellini's films, and see the infinite life through the window of the film.
The objective lens is a common shooting method for documentaries. The advantage of shooting with a static fixed lens is to remove personal factors and present the content to the audience more naturally. The critical reality of the film can be enhanced, just like the documentary when shooting the animal world. In Fellini's films, animals are turned into people.
Fellini's lens art and road films are a match made in heaven. "The Great Road" can be said to be the film that best utilizes the power of Fellini's lens. In "The Great Road", Fellini created a tragic and desolate unrequited love. The story is that Somina was sold to the entertainer Zangba as a commodity. During the many escapes during the trip, she mistakenly realized that Zangba loved herself, and the wrong idea made Somina fall in love with Zangba. No, but Zangbano, whose interests are supreme, found that Somina was useless, and resolutely shook off the burden and abandoned Somina in the wilderness. In the end, Somina died in despair and cold. This film is a touching tragedy, but the meaning is indeed not the drunkard's intention to drink. Through the objective lens, the core plot turns into green leaves. The Italian environment of the 1960s is the flowers that Fellini presented. .
"Nights of Cabiria" is the same as "The Great Road", and it is also a hardcore tragedy. "Nights of Cabiria" is the embodiment of Fellini's bad taste. If you want the audience to feel the reality best The cruelty, then the roller coaster-style plot may be the best way, the Kabylia in the film is like Sisyphus in Greek mythology (Sisyphus offended the gods, the gods punished Sisyphus in order to , asked him to push a boulder to the top of the mountain, and because every time he didn't get to the top, he rolled down the mountain again, and his previous efforts were all forfeited, so he repeated and never stopped doing it) Wish fulfillment and failure are always one Yes, like a bubble, always short-lived. "Night of Kabylia" has created four beautiful dreams, but without exception, it is a joke. For the prostitute Kabylia, the real wish is actually a sincere love. But Italy in the last century was a decaying and degenerate society. Love was not allowed in an environment where money was paramount. The sinister society gave Kabylia a hideous mask, but under the dirty appearance was actually a ray of purity. Soul, the ending coincides with "The Road", Kabylia lost its use value and was abandoned. These two films were the strongest voices of Italian neorealism at the time.
For movie appreciation, evaluating the quality of a movie should be closely combined with the environment and experience of the director himself, which is very important for movie appreciation, and the author himself is also an important aspect of movie works.
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