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Night and Dreams and Dionysian Carnival
Harry 2022-11-01 09:04:36
Kabylia Night, also translated as "Flower Street Spring Dream", can be said to be obtained - the difference between night and dream has never been clear. Kabylia is a prostitute who haunts the night, and she is the worst dream of men. At the same time she is also Maria, her own purest dream. And these two contradictory dreams almost doomed her ultimate tragedy - she had the best dream in the worst situation, she also doubted and hesitated, but unlike her partners, she never stopped Believe that life will get better one day. The director uses this dream-like story to present the suffering of an era before our eyes. I am deeply impressed by the scene of Kabylia and people crowding in the church to pay incense to Mary, what a painful life can make people send out such urgent grief, how much helpless despair it takes to make people feel this ethereal The asylum cried with joy. Unlike other people, Kabylia finally understood through drunkenness. Devotion did not make any changes in her life, and this drunkenness was also a gray line that stretched thousands of miles. At the end of the movie, Kabylia woke up from the cliff after the tragedy. I couldn't guess what she would do, and I was more confused than she was. She walked out of the woods and met the laughing crowd as the end, which was a little abrupt at first, as if to erase her sorrow and elevate her emotions. But when you think about it, it's just like Nietzsche's description in the birth of tragedy: "Extreme pain brings joy, and the heartfelt cry takes away the mourning." When Kabylia walked into the singing and dancing crowd in the shape of "sad clown", it seemed to join the carnival of Dionysus. In that moment, she was simultaneously "sublime and hilarious", the embodiment of Fellini's cinematic art. She is the core of Fellini's thinking about the art of cinema, the terrifying and absurd fairy that subdues reality - it is not religious introspection that ultimately saves the world, but artistic orgies.
Extended Reading
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Heavy prostitute with leopard spots: [in Italian, preening and admiring the shadow of her own full figure on the wall] Look how classy I am!
Long-haired prostitute: [in Italian, disparagingly] You look like Moby Dick!
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Maria 'Cabiria' Ceccarelli: [in Italian]
[to Alberto holding up boiled lobster]
Maria 'Cabiria' Ceccarelli: And what's this? I saw it in a movie once.