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The is a movie of magnificent images that taken together provide a exquisite and ironical montage of “the trustworthy life.” In fact, by the extinguish I was reminded simultaneously of Thoreau’s statement that the mass of people live lives of mild desperation and Kierkegaard’s notion that the natural condition of human beings is that of despair. There is no spot. The movie consists of a series of loosely or unconnected scenes with puny or not attempt to link them. Many of the scenes are ravishing. Some are disturbing. None of them are dumb, which is grand given the length of the film (166 minutes) .
The beginning is memorable, with a helicopter flying over Rome with a statue of Christ hanging underneath. A celebrity journalist, portrayed brilliantly by Marcello Mastroianni (the novel producer, Dino de Laurentiis, pulled out of the project when Fellini refused to cast Paul Newman in the lead role), is following the statue in order to write about it, but he and his team derive distracted by women sunbathing in bikinis on a rooftop. In this and many other scenes, the mammoth gap between outmoded and historical symbols of meaning and fresh preoccupation with mere pleasure is articulated. The overwhelming sense in the film is of the stout triviality of these people’s lives and the loss of correct purpose. There are only two exceptions in the film: Marcello’s terminate friend Steiner, whose life is a search for meaning and truth, and a young girl Marcello first meets at a restaurant where she is a food server and then sees again in the last few moments of the film. But Steiner’s search is a futile one, leading him not merely to extinguish himself but his two children as well. And the young girl is not merely a symbol of innocence, but of innocence lost, not to be found again. In the last few seconds of the film, after a drunken debauch, Marcello walks to the seashore at dawn. There he sees the young girl across a watery divide. She waves to him, and tries to roar something to him. But her words are drowned by the waves and the wind, and eventually they both smile, realizing that they he will never be able to hear what she has to say. The map that Marcello wistfully shrugs his shoulders is almost an acknowledgement that he is one of the damned. It is one of the most heartbreaking moments in unique film, as well as one of the most poignant.
Rome itself is as prominent in this film as any of the characters, but it is not the Rome one finds in ROMAN HOLIDAY. Powerful of the city looks not historic or glorious, but antiseptic, shoddily fabricated, barely reclaimed unique ruins. There are a number of horrible modernistic buildings and a number of the areas contemplate bleak and abandoned. This is all, of course, highly symbolic of the bleakness of the lives of the characters. Many films have discussions like this imposed on them (I mediate of some of the sparkling parodies in episodes of Monty Python), but LA DOLCE VITA almost demands metaphysical discussion. Fellini is concerned with the fate of human beings in the unique world, with what we have all lost and what we have failed to score in its station.
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Special mention has to be made of the amazing music for the film written by the incomparable Nino Rota, and easily stands as one of the very greatest film scores ever written, as integral to the success of the film as Bernard Hermann’s scores for NORTH BY NORTHWEST or PSYCHO or Ennio Morricone’s for A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS. It is not memoir or histrionic, but impish and light, almost ironic, as if to underscore the manner in which the characters whistle while Rome burns itself out.
A spectacular film, one of my favorites ever. It is arguably Fellini’s greatest film, and one of the vast monuments of cinema.
LA DOLCE VITA is neither awful nor overrated. There is something to be said for the shapely gargantuan number of film fans who savor this one. It is an episodic film, but that is a feature of distinguished of Fellini. In several films, Fellini builds his meaning in this way: not so mighty with a single continuing status, but with a series of smaller stories that add up to a total collection of ideas.
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Maybe the secret (if there is one) of LA DOLCE VITA’s appeal is that it’s so darned sharp all the time. This especially applies to the position concerning Steiner. Steiner is the key figure in the film, apart from Marcello himself, who is Fellini’s and the viewer’s counterpart. What Steiner represents to Marcello is of prime importance. The young reporter sees the older man as a perfected, idealized version of himself. He longs to emulate Steiner and is convinced this man knows how to live life fully. There is irony aplenty in the entire Steiner myth. When Marcello brings his wife to the Steiner party, they meet a few spellbinding, but mostly insufferablty pretentious ‘intellectual’ types. (the renowned Fellini ‘careless’ post-dubbing of dialogue in this scene particularly amusing: it seems to add to these characters’ disconnection from a proper self, as though they don’t even realize what they are actually saying) . Steiner himself associates with these people, yet does not truly seem to be one of them. He feels trapped by his believe pretentious circle of intellectuals. When Marcello enlighten him how considerable he envies and admires him, Steiner replies:
“Don’t be like me. Salvation doesn’t lie within four walls. I’m too serious to be a dilettante and too great a dabbler to be a professional. Even the most sorrowful life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.”
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This gives Marcello mighty to leer for the rest of the film. And Steiner’s subsequent suicide confirms the deep suspicion growing within the protagonist that all of existence, as he himself has known it thus far, is fundamentally absurd and meaningless. For this reason the film is existential in its outlook. Marcello is the original, urban human, trapped in an absurd universe. But Fellini, seems not fully despairing in his outlook. Think, for example, the significance of Marcello’s interaction with the blonde girl in the cafe–she represents a simpler life away from the city and the over-complications of novel existence. Many viewers have missed the fact that it is this same girl who waves to Marcello on the beach in the film’s final scene: she waves and is telling something he is never able to hear, so he waves once, and turns support to the empty, inebriated crowd as they speculate about the unknowability of nature, embodied by a unpleasant, bloated fish.
LA DOLCE VITA is a vast film for the plot it pulls some viewers in and forces them to peep the precise sigh of what they are seeing. The film’s main theme is one it shares with fims of Antonioni: recent man has become disconnected from the natural world and he suffers because of it. LA DOLCE VITA’s visual style is poetic, some of its characters are more than compelling and hard to forget, and its musical net by Nino Rota is among the most memorable of all time.
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