"The Road" in Books

Rosemary 2022-03-22 09:02:01

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8.4
Noriko Morishita / 2017 / Cultural Development Press

When I was in fifth grade, my parents took me to see the film La Strada (1954) directed by Federico Fellini. This is a film that depicts poor jugglers, and it is rather dark and dark. At that time, I couldn't understand the mood that the director wanted to express at all.

"How can such a movie be called a business card! It's better to watch Disney cartoons."

But ten years later, when I watched this movie again when I was in college, the impact on my heart was quite big. I remember that the title of the film was changed to "The Question of Jesso Mina", and the content was exactly the same as what I saw when I was a child.

"The Great Road, it turns out to be such a movie!"

After watching it, I felt very sad, so I had to hide in the dark place of the movie theater and cry alone.

After that, I fell in love, experienced the pain of falling out of love, and even experienced the setbacks of unsatisfactory work, but I continued to pursue my own existence. Although life was ordinary, more than ten years passed in a hurry. When I was thirty-five years old, I read "The Great Road" again.

"Huh? Was there such a picture before?"

There are pictures that have never been seen and lines that have never been heard. Giulietta Masina (Giulietta Masina) realistic acting, played the innocent heroine Jesso Mina, but her tragic experience, heartbreaking. When Zampano, who was dying, knew that the woman he had abandoned was dead, he trembled and wept on the seashore at night. This scene makes people feel that he is not a heartless man, and only has the feeling of "sorrow in the world", which makes people feel sour.

Fellini's "The Great Road" always has a new feeling every time I watch it, and the more I read it, the more profound it is.

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Extended Reading
  • Kassandra 2022-01-03 08:01:20

    "If I die, will you cry for me?" "If I'm not with you, who will I be with?" 2020-10-22 Three brushes, still fascinated by the fairy-like Massina, the goddess among the goddesses , She interprets the pitiful and lovely, the most affectionate to perfection, and no one is better; she is Fellini's eternal female version of the clown, is a pure angel who has fallen into the desolate world, and her yearning for beauty and goodness has never been extinguished. When that sad trumpet was blown, there was endless sorrow. How many eager desires hidden in her panicked eyes-"Do you love me a little bit". From inside to outside of the play, they are more dependent on each other. The tearful smile is really lovely. Everything in the world has its uses, and the tiny grasses and mustards have been here, like clouds floating in the sky without leaving a trace. Three times the camera zoomed out (leaving home, leaving the police station, abandoning), the road stretches under the feet, and the future is unknown; corresponding to the retrograde shot of his lonely hatred on the last beach.

  • Gertrude 2022-03-28 09:01:04

    I remember watching "The Great Road" in high school for the Nortel test... I haven't watched it again for years... When I watched "Every Day is a Good Day" today, I mentioned this "The Great Road" three times before, during and after the movie, which made me I think it's time to re-watch: The life of a poor and homeless artist → "Be born, live", this adage is sometimes really difficult to do in the real world, you need to ensure food, clothing, housing and transportation, and to survive minor illnesses and serious illnesses Torture, to survive natural disasters and man-made disasters... Sometimes even in difficult times to give oneself the motivation to live... Living for the sake of life is not easy, but it is even more difficult to make oneself live happily and meaningfully. ......-19.08.4/5 —— Subtitle error: "The Great Road" won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 29th Oscar in 1957, not the 28th in 1956. "The Great Road" did not win the Venice Golden Lion Award. It is the Silver Lion Award-Best Picture, and also won the Silver Lion Award-Best Picture at the 27th Academy Awards in 1955. "The Dock" (It also made me feel that "to be born, to live" is not easy. movie) and my favorite Akira Kurosawa movie, Seven Samurai, surprise.

La Strada quotes

  • Zampanò: Come here. There should be something here to fit you. I want you to look elegant. I don't want to see you in rags. My women have always looked smart.

  • Zampanò: Do only what I tell you to.