Fellini, "The Sweet Life"

Jensen 2021-12-30 17:21:44

"The most miserable life is better than a protected life in an organized society where everything is accurately calculated."
——Stanney (the character in the film, suicide)


is a little dizzy, watching "Sweet Life" When I followed the rhythm, I stepped out of the beat and swayed. For a while, I forgot that it was a movie venue, and I was dizzy. There are always times when I wake up, how come I behave like this, the film is a Fellini-style party, hallucinated, juggling, and exaggerated. For a while, I feel that I am also involved in it.

I should be regarded as not accepting Fellini's movies, "Eight and a half" did not understand, "Roman Rhapsody" made me impatient, "Broad Road" was okay, but not very touching. Federico Fellini is the director who creates his own dreams in DreamWorks. He can show all illusions and dreams on the screen. These are all derived from his personal memories and imagination, and the audience's imagination and understanding The strength should also be very good, otherwise dizziness will inevitably be avoided.

After the Second World War, Italian neo-realism films appeared. Fellini opened up a new path for neo-realism-magical realism. This director who was educated in drama and loves to watch satires on current affairs, put singing, dance and drama on the big screen. Clowns and prostitutes are no more humble than others. "Italian Films Since 1945" said: "The ingenious combination of a painting, a scene, a setting, a postcard, and another imaginary time and space interprets the director’s superb skills and heralds It reflects Fellini’s achievements in the 1960s. Man-made scenery and natural space, dreams and reality, drama and life are integrated, showing the Baroque style. "It
can be said that such achievements were also reflected in the works of other directors at that time. Like in the era of the philosophers of a hundred schools of thought, the various schools and factions are not as distinct as they are now, but Fellini is more prominent in the reality of imagination, attaches importance to, exaggerates, strengthens, and is more breathtaking, so it will produce indispensable His sense of distance in awe of the master makes all latecomers pay tribute to him by imitation.

This film tells the story of the gossip journalist Marcelo. He leads a decadent and boring life every day. Like this city—Rome, he is exquisite during the day and debauched at night. Everyone he meets is so high-level and boring, singing and dancing every night, sexually casual, and blind in faith. Selfish of love, drunk and gold fan. The 174 minutes of boredom did not make you tired. You curiously waited for him to meet one stranger after another, one after another, and he himself became more addicted and weird. This kind of madness and frustration is far from our environment and cognition, and occasionally triggers bursts of laughter from the audience. If the laughter can be tested, it will not be the hilariousness of the comedy, but the amazement at the construction of a satirical picture; this perception The remoteness of the world allows us to imagine that it is true. There is a class that has such a "sweet life", just like our mysterious guesses about those classes that are both a little yearning and contemptuous, "the imagined world gradually becomes more than the reality

Be real." I can’t figure out my selfless devotion. This can be regarded as the first time I have been watching a movie. "It is said in the article, "The audience sees their own spiritual crisis, their own despair and anxiety, and their own pain on the screen. They see how their love is dying, and they see how they live to them. How can the fear I feel in front of the proposed subject be eulogized..." Attracted by Fellini, because of pursuit and disillusionment, a kind of hopeless neurological excitement, an irreversible decline, and the appearance of life is sweet and exaggerated. , Consists of lonely, flustered, empty, and irritable individuals desperately working hard.

*"Sweet Life"
Director: Federico Fellini (Federico Fellini)
Release year: 1960
Production country/region: France, Italy
won the Palme d’Or at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival
* Within a few months after the film was screened The verbal abuse of the film came like a flood. The "Rome Observer" cursed "Sweet Life" for several days. The reporter who wrote the article called on the Telegraphic Prosecutor’s Office to revoke the screening permit, destroy the negatives, and ask the authorities to seize Fellini’s passport.

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Extended Reading
  • Sherman 2021-12-30 17:21:44

    For 174 minutes, I sat all morning, smoked eight cigarettes, drank two bottles of zero degrees, plus the last one, forcing a day. I know why the legendary Tsinghua North University tyrant likes to watch brainless popcorn movies.

  • Cathrine 2022-03-27 09:01:09

    The insanity behind the economic miracle, the spiritual poverty of the upper class. Existentialism, Freud's three-layered psychological structure. The non-linear narration of the form is scattered and the spirit gathers, the structure of the mobile exhibition hall, and the combination of point and surface. Objective farsightedness, distanced gestures, simplified sound, spiritual essence, Paparazzi's origins.

The Sweet Life quotes

  • Poetess at Steiner's Party: We must all think about tomorrow, but without forgetting to live today.

  • Steiner: I'm too serious to be an amateur, but not enough to be a professional.