Fellini is indeed a great director

Abby 2022-04-19 09:01:55

Some time ago, Fellini's endless metaphors and exaggerations, such as "The Dolce Vita", have been disapproving of.

But re-watching this eight and a half (the first time I watched it without subtitles, I guessed and didn't understand it), I have to admit that Fellini is a great director. He dared to face his own heart, and insisted on the truth of this heart.

I remember there was a clip in the movie I watched at the time, in which the male protagonist made love with an old prostitute, but it seems to be missing in the current movie. I don't know if I remembered it wrong.

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  • Claudia: I don't understand. He meets a girl that can give him a new life and he pushes her away?

    Guido: Because he no longer believes in it.

    Claudia: Because he doesn't know how to love.

    Guido: Because it isn't true that a woman can change a man.

    Claudia: Because he doesn't know how to love.

    Guido: And above all because I don't feel like telling another pile of lies.

    Claudia: Because he doesn't know how to love.

  • Writer: You see, what stands out at a first reading is the lack of a central issue or a philosophical stance. That makes the film a chain of gratuitous episodes which may even be amusing in their ambivalent realism. You wonder, what is the director really trying to do? Make us think? Scare us? That ploy betrays a basic lack of poetic inspiration.