달콤한 인생, 페데리코 펠리니, 1960, 이탈리아
La Dolce Vita, Federici Fellini, 1960
- 파파라치paparazzi의 시조
- "bittersweet"라는 단어가 딱 잘 어울리는
- 엔딩이 인상깊었다. 마첼로 루비니Marcello Rubini(Marcello Mastroianni)의 표정에서 이상하게 씁쓸함을 느꼈다.
*IMDb synopsis
Another way to look at La Dolce Vita is to think of Marcello's journey (played by Marcello Mastroianni) as the cinematic version of the Book of Daniel which describes the "Apocalypse" or Revelation: a disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception. The film begins with the imagery of Christ flying over Rome as a helicopter carries a religious statue aloft over the city — or visions of Angels. Marcello's journey includes encounters with the "Great Whore" (Sylvia, played by Anita Ekberg), the suicide of his close friend whose life has descended into despair, a Judgment of the wicked (the orgy at the villa), the Beast (symbolized by the manta ray/devil fish on the beach), the purity of the virginal young girl who beckons to Marcello to save him but he chooses the decadent life — viewed in this way, the film has a layer of symbolism that deepens it.
*The film and especially the final beach scene were inspired by the infamous 1953 Wilma Montesi murder case. Montesi was a normal Italian woman from a proper family. Her dead body was found on a beach near Rome. The investigation exposed the drugs and sex orgies of Roman high society at the time. The murder remains unsolved as of today.
**Google Arts&Culture 「달콤한 인생의 시대」
