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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  • 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.