Monday 21 December 2009

By 1965 there'll be total depravity. How squalid everything will be.

La Dolce Vita (1960).

"Don't be like me. Salvation doesn't lie within four walls. I'm too serious to be a dilettante and too much a dabbler to be a professional. Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected."

I really wish more people would seek out Fellini's work. I think there's a lot our current hierarchical and ultimately voyeuristic society could take from his material. Infidelity, suicide, murder and depression were all interwoven with scenes of fun and happiness. Why? Because that is what life is like.

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