La Dolce Vita
Movie: 1960, b/w, 180 minutes
Director: Frederico Fellini
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Journalist and man-about-town Marcello struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
What is the theme of La Dolce Vita?
La Dolce Vita is Italian for the sweet life which is the line defining main character, Marcello’s life. The film depicts main character Marcello as a as a journalist in Rome during the late 1950’s. The film’s theme is a concentration on the café society/bar society and the contrast between that glittery world and the world of ruin and poverty that still exists in Rome in the post war period.
How does Fellini convey this thematic message in the film?
In the very first scene this is represented by the statue of Christ that flies overhead in a sort of blessed like way and ironically flying over now neo-modern Rome founded on the economic miracle that magically occurred in fifties Rome. The statue also flies over Rome’s antiquity in have shown an aqueduct and few ancient runs which juxtaposes with the profane lifestyle of today’s Italy. This is then repeated in Marcello’s character who represents modernity in a man of Rome as he follows the statue in a separate helicopter behind antique Rome.
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