Hal

beautiful page

Challenging reading, but interesting, because I didn’t know many of the things you wrote, thx.

I refer to what was said in the twin review: an album that disappoints me. The review... I don't know... seems pointless to me.

Great album and overall honest review, just one doubt: is it correct to attribute this album to Traffic?

Well, I don’t agree that Fellini's poetic imagination hasn’t told the story of our country; it certainly has, albeit in a different way. To the point that if there is a real flaw to be found in him, it’s the one that Orson Welles criticized him for (if I remember correctly), namely a somewhat "provincial" way of storytelling (while his opinion of De Sica was different).

There are several things that strike me as off while reading. The first is just an impression. It seems to me from your words that the accolades received by Fellini during his career are like a tin medal and, if that’s what you meant (though I might not have understood), then I believe I cannot agree. I have the impression of a pleasure in going against the current, almost a conformism of anti-conformism, but that’s fine. The second thing is the acknowledgment of "artifice" (if by artifice you mean unnaturalness) in Fellini’s cinema, which I think is quite the opposite, but I understand that we have different opinions. Then there is the content critique, where acknowledging the existence of plot, acting, and message in certain directors seems to logically exclude it entirely from Fellini’s work, and I don’t get that either. There’s also the use of adjectives like "self-referential" tied to a measure of assessment (so much, too much, average, little) whose usefulness and meaning elude me once again. Finally, there’s little to nothing about the film, a few scattered mentions here and there. Not much. Is it cruel, the country or the cinema that needs heroes? I don’t know, maybe. When he was about to die, I remember a very significant cartoon (perhaps from the regretful "Cuore") by someone who evidently loved him: it depicted Fellini in a hospital bed surrounded by tubes, IVs, cameras, and film equipment with a voice saying, "Run, Federico, run!" In death, it told of a Fellini as a hero, in a way, yes, sad. Yes, perhaps it is cruel, the country or the cinema that needs heroes, no less than the country or the cinema that devours them sometimes without even an apparent reason.

already 13,478 tiles? Too bad number 1816 would have been so much to me.

smash your mononeuron has a fever of 40°? Or as a tribute to the theme of the review, have you only tried to impress us with the cancellation of anti-rules, dogmas, and dazzling verbal effects, because this review is written in a truly bizarre way, it is certainly the strangest you have written :)) Respect.

this had slipped my mind

The comic volumes were certainly richer and more complex than the adapted film, which, however, was very well made for its time. I believe it's worth watching just for the representation of those pieces of glass from a building shattering (I'm going from memory; I haven't seen it in years). Interesting is psycho's comment that rightly highlights the apocalyptic impulses of the film present in various works of Japanese culture (not coincidentally, of course).