psychedelic nostalgia

Amelie 2022-03-23 09:02:34

Like Fellini, I am also a child away from home, and the memory of my home will always make me yearn and terrified. The confusion of birth and the sadness of youth, all of which are like a veil covering the sky of the past. For Fellini, his hometown also carries too much confusion and panic in his youth. Starting from the road and even the light of acrobatics, his films all express the contradiction between yearning for home and fear.
In the same way, Amakord was not filmed in his hometown of Minie, and he never went to his hometown of Minie to shoot a scene in his life. The people and things in the film seem to be familiar but may not happen. The so-called memories are also Fellini in Perceptual reconstructions are carried out in its memory. For example, the women's huge breasts and buttocks in the film, and their exaggerated body proportions, are only because of their childhood fear of sexual relations and anxiety about mysterious sex, and this is only a unique perceptual knowledge in their youth. Others like the fog that always accompanies the Nazis, the white cow in the fog, the peacock after the snow, the overly plump tobacco shop proprietress, the coquettish girl... etc. are all specific emotions for the hometown in that specific era.
This way of exploring the deep reality of the world through the construction of the second reality shows that its new realism concept is becoming more and more mature, and the world through perceptual knowledge is infatuated or even crazy, but ironically, only through fiction can metaphors be reproduced. reality and bring the audience to the deepest reality. Therefore, through the movie, the audience can really feel Fellini's real memories of his hometown, which is psychedelic but realistic.

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Extended Reading
  • Eli 2022-01-07 15:52:58

    Feelings are really moving, poetry and absurdity are perfectly combined. The fragmented continuous life of comic strips is nothing more than mortal birth, old age, sickness and death, laughing and yelling, and the infatuation, paranoia, and unwillingness in it. These subtle emotions are finally transformed into another one. In the spring breeze of the year. The red dress, the snow labyrinth, the Earl of Peacock, these images are really incredibly romantic!

  • Jensen 2022-04-21 09:02:51

    10/ Read it twice in a row. How much Fellini loved this land! Spring dust and bacteria fly, bonfires burn away the winter cold. Memories are teenage sexual desires, masturbation, and false confessions for older plump women; the black smoke that accompanies fascist armies when the fascist army emerges; the Internationale played on the gramophone on the clock tower in the dark; farts and the smell of urine—juvenile Love the attention to childish details. Poetry spreads throughout the city: it transcends the penetration of religion and politics, it celebrates desire, it is a fusion of noise and serenity; it is the buttocks of the graceful and graceful woman—the trinity of motherhood, divinity, and sexuality, Great satire on religion. O fantasy dance in the fog, that's a wonderful fiction. Years later, I will still remember the red-clothed peacock in the snow, the peacock with its screen in the snow, the white cow in the mist and the giant oil tanker sailing through the waves. The beautiful Gratiska will eventually marry, and the boys will grow up; the blizzard and winter will finally leave, and the dusty spring will finally come. The seasons change, and nothing happens here. Everything that happened here, birth, old age, sickness and death, laughter and curses, I will always remember.

Amarcord quotes

  • Passeggiate #1: Volpina, have you made love today? How many men did you service? I bet you even dip a cock in your morning coffee.

  • Passeggiate #2: You're the greatest, Gradisca. Greta Garbo's got nothing on you!