Silence is an emotion, love is a fear

Jedidiah 2022-03-23 09:02:06

When I watched it, I felt like I was watching eight and a half films. Many times the film was JEB's consciousness flowing. I said in my heart that it was a new wave. Today, there are still people filming the new wave. It's rare and brave. It is not difficult to see the artistic pursuit of the director.
However, because the lens switching is too subjective, the narrative function of the film declines, causing the film to appear too skillful and skillful, like Avatar, which loses its "soul" due to its emphasis on "shape". And I prefer the latter. So, watching this movie was not very enjoyable for me. Although, I also feel the attention to its photography, lighting, and composition, but I am watching a movie here, without the blending of souls, any flowers that are like brocade are not too attractive to me.

However, JEB is my favorite, and I feel like he's a bit like Salinger. They were all disgusted by Qiao's pretentious pretenders, and they saw through the filth concealed under the high-sounding costumes. The difference is that Salinger chooses to stay away from these people, while JEB, on the contrary, chooses to hang out with them, disgusting both himself and others. The result of disgusting myself is that I can't write a book, and the excuse is perfect: Flaubert can't write a meaningless book, so do I. The theme of this film is to use a beautiful mirror to tell us that there is a writer in Rome who got into the upper class and found that there is no truth or beauty here, only mutual deception and use. The writer has always thought of escaping, but can't do it. For some reason, he is singing every night, avoiding emptiness and boredom with drunken life and dreams. This pessimistic world-weary knows his crux, but he suffers from not being able to overcome himself, retreat to the countryside, and find his soul. He can only often make nonsense at parties, embarrass others, and derive the true meaning of life. Some of them are really thought-provoking, for the sake of A great reward for watching this film. For example, he said that everyone knows that there is death ahead, but before that is life, and you have to live before you can reach death. Hearing this, I felt a chill, and the essence of life turned out to be—torture! ! ! Such a simple statement is really a bit overwhelming. He also said that silence is an emotion and love is a fear. I think that the emotion of silence may only be understood by people like him, so it is difficult to listen to other people say such words. In addition, the movie also has a sentence that touched me: resonance is the channel for me to communicate with the world, and resonance cannot be expressed in words. I suddenly understood why I was often reluctant to write, preferring to reminisce in my mind. Words, in front of the thoughts as deep as the sea, appear pale and powerless, no matter how wonderfully written. So, aftertaste is the right way.

The beautiful scene belongs to the beautiful Rome. Under this beautiful appearance, people feel a kind of depravity and rout. Is it the director's purpose to make this film?

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The Great Beauty quotes

  • Jep Gambardella: To this question, as kids, my friends always gave the same answer: "Pussy". Whereas I answered "The smell of old people's houses". The question was "What do you really like the most in life?" I was destined for sensibility. I was destined to become a writer. I was destined to become Jep Gambardella.

  • Jep Gambardella: Madame Ardant!

    Fanny Ardant: [after a long pause] Bonne nuit.