chaotic stream of consciousness

Troy 2022-04-19 09:01:55

To be honest, I don’t really understand movies like this, but I feel like I’m always pursuing something. The more I don’t understand something, the more profound I feel. .

After watching "The Magnificent Age", I didn't understand it, and I heard that "The Magnificent Age" was adapted from a stage play adapted from "The Eight and a Half" (it's a mouthful). "Half" swallow the dates whole.

Of course, I can still understand a bit or two of some scenes in it, but the whole movie scene is upside down and confusing, a group of crazy silly women scratching their heads and posing, and speaking Italian, it feels quite out of my life.

Just look at the expert's movie reviews to know that it turns out that people use stream of consciousness to express reality and dreams.

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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.