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Opening narration: “The film you are about to glimpse does not have a epic in the feeble sense with a desirable place and characterss that you can follow from the beginning to the demolish. This pictures tells another kind of story–the account of a city.” And Fellini gives a loving, sometimes poking roguish commentary, at times tragic portrait of Rome from his time as a boy in Fascist Italy to 1972, when this film was made.
Rome. As in Romulus and Remus, the river Tiber, Julius Caesar, the Colisseum, it’s a city steeped in history as a mammoth empire that rose and fell, and the film starts with Caesar and the crossing of the Rubicon, and how he is unexcited revered in school. There is even a statue of Caesar in his town: “apart from his usefulness to the pigeons, he was a popular meeting space for the town.”
Speaking of popular meeting places, there are two scenes where that aspect is emphasized. Fellini recalls of the apartment block where he stayed for a while, agog at the various characters, crying children, scolding mothers, etc. Eating was taken seriously, and who ate? Kids, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, grandparents, great-grandparents, friends, friends of friends… there must have been at least a hundred or so people at the dinner feast. As one woman tells him, “They say eat alone, the devil cheers. Eat with friends, the devil jeers.” The table is rife with complaints, insults, greetings, even a limited girl who sings an rude song, eliciting laughter and scandalized looks. Similarly, there is the Festa De Noantri, the Festival Of Ourselves, where the Romans celebrate themselves, and the celebrants are either long-time residents or people who opinion they were passing by and stayed forever. The term “carnival-of-life” has been ancient to relate Fellini’s movies, and this is very right here.
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Fellini’s film unit visually “describe[s] the entry into thecity via the ring of motorways that surrounds her [Rome] like a Saturn of rings.” The scene of the recent neat highway speaks of the tragic toll industrialization has taken, and the raining deluge adds to the misery. Hitchhikers, prostitutes, cement trucks, even a tank and a guy pushing a cart, highway patrol, communist student protesters, insane bumper to bumper traffic, and the most tragic scene, an overturned and burning truck-trailer, stupid cows littering the road, firefighters fighting the blaze. Yet history does rear its head. Plans to get a Roman subway is halted and delayed because of the unpredictable Roman subsoil. “Every 100 yards, you approach across something of historical importance.” The workers have to learn speleology and archaeology as a result. And when will the subway be done? Who knows?
At a wartime variety present, an intellectual-looking member of the audience remarks, “We are seeing basic humanity here. Vaudeville is the arena of mass aggressiveness, a combination circus and brothel.” Given the rowdiness of sure uncouth members of the audience who heckle at comics or whistle at the girls, that’s just enough. But might that not also be a commentary on Rome and maybe any vast city?
There’s also the noble enough glowing Peter Gonzalez portraying the young Fellini and we behold the scrutinize of 1930’s Rome through his eyes. Intriguing images and characters underpoint any Fellini film and this is no different. The big hulk of a man at the theatre who has a wet rag thrown at his face, a religious fashion display that becomes garish, and the various prostitutes at the brothel are unprejudiced some of them. Spellbinding commentary on brothels and churches: “an invitation to sin, one that could be confessed to the next day.”
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So what is Rome, in the extinguish? A city that has died and been resurrected so many times, that it’s fitting to explore the coming demolish of civilization from there as Gore Vidal says? The vestal virgin and she-wolf, an aristocrat and tramp, a somber buffoon? The unflattering latter is given to actress Anna Magnani, whom Fellini calls the living symbol of Rome–(she died a year after this brief appearance) . In the waste, I’d say all these things and more.
First, the worst. The sound is Putrid. Not because of any master-to-DVD transfer problems but because all the sound was post-synchronized in the novel production. This means that the dialog seldom lines up with the actor(s) and it always has an ambience that has nothing to do with the scene. That was a very current characteristic of Italian movies at that time.
As annoying as the sound is, so are the visuals attractive. Very few directors have the imagination that Fellini had and there are many scenes which allege his trademark sense of absurdity and surrealism. And probably no other director ever combined satire with a adore of his subjects so powerfully.
If you remove this DVD because you remembered the movie fondly from 25 or 30 years ago, be warned that it often comes across as very dated. But the beauty of “Roma” is that you can jump around without disturbing any continuity because it’s really a collection of (long) vignettes. And most likely some of them will be better remembered than others.
If you adore Fellini’s work, none of what you peek will surprise you. If you’re not familiar with it, this is as exemplary of Fellini’s work as you can win and you’ll soon realize that no one makes movies like this anymore.
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