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Originally posted by ImpressiveInstant
I think it's good but not that much.
Behind all that "BEAUTY!" (and it's a lot, so much that it gets overbearing after 2 hours) there doesn't seem to be much of actual value - at the end of the day it's just a story of a rich man bored with his meaningless, hedonistic lifestyle. How many times have we seen that?
There's no denying that it's really ****ing gorgeous, though, and much better than The Broken Circle Breakdown, which I think will win Best Foreign Language Film  |
That seems to be the complaint of many people but I just can't help and disagree.
Your description of his character is on spot but this also seems to be the movies main focus. The movie takes us on a journey through the life of this man who himself recognizes how shallow it's become and admits that as the reason for his decline. He excuses this behaviour by saying he's on a search for the great beauty and would only want to start writing again after he's found it. But every scene, literally nearly every scene, depicts some kind of beauty and it becomes clear that it has always been in front of him but he only realizes it after the death of his first love, the magician and the nun.
He tried to ignore his decline and age by hiding behind all this superficiality he even calls "blah blah blah" himself, so Sorrentino definitely aimed for this shallowness in some scenes.
I would agree that it should have aimed at more considering how ambitious it was. But the stunning visuals and the greatly directed party scenes alone >
