The whole history of the relationship between that silly, gullible, moving Gersomina and Zombano who took her as a slave, the eternal conflict between man and beast, has always been exciting and deeply moved me. Feeling agitated everywhere. In this film, everything is expressed very precisely. The last shot. Zombano sat on a black seaside. In front of him was the endless black sea, which seemed to him to be the limit and the end. Suddenly he burst into tears, hissing and howling for the loss of Gersomina. She was the only meaning of his life, even though he had abused her, hurt her, tortured her in different ways. He finally showed his humanity, which we finally saw and felt at the last minute. It's a breathtaking image. The film seems to remind me of Russian classical literature. It must be noted that the same thought was once anxious about Dostoevsky, and the same thought about the secrets of the human mind was also thought and anxious by Tolstoy in his unique way. . What is hidden in the heart of man? How can you not think about it? The whole very complex film is full of profound humanity, which the director endowed it with, and this humanity exists in the director's mind. What great compassion guided Fellini, helping him to find more and more expressive features in the life of this girl, this Gersomina. With what kind of love and pity does the director show the touching scene that the poor heroine is always trying to find happiness. She has to look for even the tiniest happiness, to get the happiness she deserves in life. Here is where the intense sympathy, which is a necessary quality of genius, can be seen. Fellini's film not only amazes me with the beauty of its structure and the delicacy of its depiction, of course, this is also very important, but it is also secondary. The main thing is the extraordinary power of substance for a deep understanding of human life.
Throughout the plot and imagery of Fellini's films is the ruthless attitude of the brutal machines he uses to portray contemporary bourgeois life. You can understand from the interview with him how much he understands and hates the machine in which he himself belongs - he doesn't go beyond that at all, he is just supposed to find and arrange his own plots in this area, he is fall within this range. Not only does he know everything about the world around him very well, but he has his own point of view. The power of genius and the breadth of artistic intellect, if these two words can be combined in such a strange way, are what made it possible to expose the ugly truths of bourgeois life so profoundly. Audiences were stunned by the real, ruthless power he revealed.
View more about La Strada reviews
