Guido Anselmi
The truth is: I do not know... I seek... I have not yet found. Only with this in mind can I feel alive and look at you without shame.
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Guido Anselmi I really have nothing to say, but I want to say it anyway.
Writer You see, what stands out at a first reading is the lack of a central issue or a philosophical stance. That makes the film a chain of gratuitous episodes which may even be amusing in their ambivalent realism. You wonder, what is the director really trying to do? Make us think? Scare us? That ploy betrays a basic lack of poetic inspiration.
Writer A crisis of inspiration? What if it's not just temporary, my dear friend? What if it's the final downfall of a big fat no-talent imposter?
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