Movie
La Grande Bellezza
03/25/2014 10:35 AM Archiviato in:Articles
Most of them most probably stemming from one’s own experience.
Someone saw it as a depiction of the decadence of Italy, quite paradoxically that though.
Other people saw it like a sign of the magnificence of Rome, paradoxically too, given that was not the first recent movie to retract Rome in the twilight: just a few years ago Woody Allen's To Rome with Love pursued that purpose proper.
Then again someone might have interpreted it as a critique of spiritual practice and at the same time of the not-so spiritual practice.
Yet we have that hyperbolic title hinting to something that is not part of the movie; all filmed beauties may not be surely classified as a Great Beauty, each entity apparently missing something to be perfect. So the rich misses a diary, the priest the center of the stage, the star people their youth and finally even the wise nun misses the reason why Jep Gambardella did not write one more book.
The public is engulfed in this sense of lack, possibly lacking something from each character: what was that book about? What was written in the diary Jep was looking for? What sort of powers the priest had? What impressed so much the nun about Jep? Why Ramona dies so quietly? And so on.
Yet he is also in some way reassured by the awareness that if he even knew these things nothing would change about its situation. All ways out seem in fact barren, you cannot move, nor you can stand.
But again even this view is wrong as anyone going through Rome in spring may discover, possibly drinking a coffee or eating a delicious ice cream.
So what may we finally get?
Possibly the fact that each beauty is big if we do not want to make it bigger!
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