roman holiday

Easter 2022-03-26 09:01:04

Movies are a dream. People's wishes that cannot be fulfilled in real life can be realized through movies. "Roman Holiday" is such a movie. It doesn't always bring endless nightmares like David Lynch's works. It is like a placebo, bringing spiritual comfort to all beings struggling in the world of misery. comfort. Modern society is a material society, and the fast-paced life consumes people's enthusiasm. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche have long been aware of the negative impact of over-industrialization and modernization on human beings. In their view, if people live only for material life, but the spiritual world is empty, then such a life is simply a tragedy. So Schopenhauer said that life is like a pendulum swinging back and forth between pain and boredom. Art, Nietzsche said, provides value to worthless lives. I think that movie is this kind of art, and "Roman Holiday" is to tell us a simple truth: Life is a dream, Life is wonderful!

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Roman Holiday quotes

  • [in a taxi in Rome; Princess Ann is drugged]

    Joe Bradley: Where do you live?

    Princess Ann: [mumbles drunkenly] ... Colosseum...

    Joe Bradley: [to taxi driver] She lives in the Colosseum.

    Cab Driver: Is wrong address!

  • Mr. Hennessey: In view of the fact that our Highness was taken violently ill at three o'clock this morning, put to bed with a high fever, and has ordered all her appointments for the day cancelled in toto...

    Joe Bradley: That's certainly pretty hard to swallow.

    Mr. Hennessey: In view of the fact that you just left her, of course.