La dolce vita

With a strong but very subtle message, rich in details, varied soundtrack, excellent photography, beautiful scenery, a lot of style (clothes, haircut, props) and a lot of beautiful women, that's how I would sum up La Dolce Vita.

After finishing the movie, I was thinking a lot about how much the movie ended up not saying anything. But then hours later I'm thinking about what message the film's director will really try to convey with this work, I'll detail a little about it throughout this analysis.

We follow the story of Marcello an Italian journalist, quite famous and admired by his friends, he is a symbol of what many men want to be, in addition to the qualities mentioned, Marcello is rich, has a beautiful Triumph TR3A and is always accompanied by beautiful women, also present in high society parties. (Finally live the life of dreams).

As the story unfolds, Marcelo, who has a toxic relationship with his girlfriend Maddalena, always mistreats and disrespects and betrays her, who at a certain moment asks the other Maria (Mother of Jesus) to change him so that he can leave this life and start like her. However this seems to be really a miracle because Rubini always with beautiful women, from prostitutes to movie actresses. Always without any limit, not even when your close friend dies.

At a certain point, the father of the journalist appears who lives the same life as his son, from brothels to brothels, and at one point there is a scene in which he looks at his father, with a sad face, and gives us the dimension of what he will become in the future, someone who lives at parties but deep down is always sad, alone and forgotten.

This is the reflection that the film leaves for us, is it worth a life full of futility and trivial relationships? The director appeals to the exaggerated exaggeration of the scenes in which Marcello obviously lives "the life of dreams" precisely to show us a behavioral and thoughtful attitude what a determined person is and this can help to repeat casual films.

As it is portrayed in Italy (for me one of my favorite countries, I will still visit), the film shows a series of real places, style in clothes, glasses and hairstyles. As for the soundtrack, we have Jazz, Blues, Piano, oriental music. We also observe several paintings and sculptures of the plot, which enriches the experience even more.

The only negative point for me is that the character Marcello almost doesn't suffer for his actions and everything ends up working out in the end, this frustrates me a little, but obviously doesn't compromise the film.