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This is quite a cryptic piece and reading and retreading I’m quite at a loss for what, if anything, is being said about Fellini or his work. What am I missing
by wellpast 7y ago
This is quite a cryptic
piece and reading and retreading I’m quite at a loss for what, if anything, is being said about Fellini or his work.
What am I missing or is this vapid?
8 1/2 is an “ugly display”?
What does that even mean?
It’s an incredible and feverish masterpiece, isn’t it?
What is an “ugly display” even in the context of this piece of “writing”? Is that a pejorative or not? Is it intended to give me anything? Or is this some diffusion of some kind?
What am I missing here?
- keiferski 7y agoYeah, I hate to be that guy, but this author seems to fundamentally misunderstand a lot of 8 1/2 or criticize Fellini because of his inherent apoliticism. The New Yorker can't seem to write any sort of cultural commentary any more without injecting the supposed bogeyman of the day. For instance: I'm not sure how one can interpret the 'harem' scene [1] as anything other than a critical take on the [universal and common] ego fantasy that all our former lovers will come back to us, apologetic and begging to be with us again. > What’s going on here? Is Fellini paying lip service to a new moral dispensation that he doesn’t understand, or honestly chiding himself for former sins? Either way, the film is an ugly display, and... 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k8cQ1x0aAk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k8cQ1x0aAk
- goto11 7y agoI think it is "The City of Women" the writer considers "an ugly display".