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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Amarcord quotes

  • Teo, Titta's Uncle: Is Father Pazzaglia still alive?

    Miranda: He's been dead ten years now.

    Grandpa: He's been gone quite some time.

    Teo, Titta's Uncle: He was alive last year.

    Miranda: That was Father Amedeo.

    Teo, Titta's Uncle: Is he dead too?

    Miranda: No, he's alive.

    Teo, Titta's Uncle: Exactly.

  • Grandpa: My father's father used to say, "To be fit as a fiddle, you have to piddle. To be fit as a frog, pee like a dog."