Until the day we run out of smarts

Alyson 2022-04-19 09:01:55

Talking about a good-looking, smart-looking director Guido makes a movie.
He has an actress the world is waiting for as his heroine, and his thirty-year experience behind the scenes
shows that he is very successful. But he couldn't make a film.
His ideas were either considered to have no literary heights or meaningless.
He exhausted his reserves and even mobilized his private memories
of his childhood and his mother, his youthful enlightenment memory, his wife, his mother, and his father
Squeeze and transform with the flashy, cramped, restless and exhausted reality
, these private and unrepeatable precious memories of him are just dry and unusable materials in the eyes of others.
His aura is worn away, and the face of a wise man Gradually bringing out expressions of helplessness, compromise, and ridicule. Under the
reputation of being famous, it is actually difficult to match. Proud directors have to collapse. It
has never been at its peak. People who sell a little talent to live must collapse even more severely.

If it is Fellini's intention In this state of writing a director, he is really successful.
He combines memories and reality to bring out the past that has been passed but touches the innermost heart, and the reality that is in front of us but is flashy and dreamlike.
His artistic difficulties lead him to bring out the impossible to touch in the past. The inner layer of the heart, but even so sincere, but unable to express the director's grief with such a structure
as it used to be, as long as it stays on the surface of life , it is the most suitable and felt . This is Fellini's autobiographical work , that is to say, with the projection of his personal experience, that is, he himself has really encountered this kind of helplessness . Fellini will also be uninspired, thinking that nothing is good, what should we do when those of us who are not so bright and talented have exhausted the little bit of artistic cleverness ?






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Extended Reading
  • Rhoda 2022-04-23 07:02:04

    Self-expression modernism, breaking through the linear narrative structure, the double mirror structure of the play within the play, polyphony and harmony, two lines of psychological action; poetic realism, circus-style artificial set, dramatic performance, a large number of flashbacks, fantasy and babble, comic composition

  • Kade 2022-04-20 09:01:41

    The wild flowers gradually become attractive to the eyes, and Asakusa can have no horses' hooves. Ten years ago, I couldn't understand it, and after reading it all over the world, I gradually understood Fellini's mind.

8½ quotes

  • Guido: You came just in time. Why are you smiling? Suppose I told you... Claudia.

  • Luisa Anselmi: Don't explain. I didn't ask you anything. Just spare me the shame of hearing you swear to a mess of lies.