On the way to pursue a career of love, will everyone encounter eight and a half...

Arne 2022-04-19 08:01:03

This is undoubtedly Fellini's most honest film about knowing oneself, truly understanding what art is, and what art makes it nihilistic or hypocritical.

The person who knows you best is the person closest to you, and the person who doesn’t know you the least is also the person closest to you. The contradiction here may lie in the word “love”.

It is better to say that a director is troubled by indistinguishable dreams and hallucinations from reality because of his exhaustion of inspiration. It is better to say that the entanglement between his dreams, hallucinations and reality shows his true inner entanglement, as well as the source or portrayal of his fear, which is exactly the same. An "encounter" that allows a director to find the freedom he should pursue - the freedom to be true and honest about life and art.

"The real artist is not asking for something from people, or trying to cover up something to prove something, the real art is to forget one's own identity, don't want anything, eliminate the mistakes that shouldn't be made, and seek the bright path that is persistent in the pursuit of art. Road. That is an artist's road to freedom.

#title8 and a half, is it just expressing—it must be halfway through, and when you want to give up, you will understand what the freedom of an artist is.

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  • Guido: Enough of symbolism and these escapist themes of purity and innocence.

  • Guido: I thought my ideas were so clear. I wanted to make an honest film. No lies whatsoever. I thought I had something so simple to say. Something useful to everybody. A film to help bury forever all the dead things we carry around inside. Instead, it's me who lacks the courage to bury anything at all. Now I'm utterly confused, with this tower on my hands. I wonder why things turned out this way. Where did I lose my way? I really have nothing to say, but I want to say it anyway. Why don't those spirits of yours come to my aid? You always said they had lots of messages for me. Let them get to work.

    Rossella: I've already told you: your attitude is all wrong. You're curious in a childish way. You want too many guarantees.

    Guido: Fine, but what do they say?

    Rossella: The same as always. They're very reasonable. They know you very well.

    Guido: Well then?

    Rossella: They say you're free, but you have to choose. And you don't have much time. You have to hurry.