Introduction

Introduction | Appreciation | Reflection of Juliet and the Elf

1965 color film140min

Jointly produced by Italy's Federitz Film Company/France's Franco Ritz Film Company.

Director: federico fellini Screenwriter: federico fellini Enio Freano turio Pinel Brunello Lundi Photography: Johnny Devenyns Zuo Main Actors: Juliet Marcina (as Juliet) Luisa Delanoche (as Adele) Mario Pisu (as George) Sandra Milo (as Susie) Valentina Gertes (as Valentina) Catalina.

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Juliet and two maids are busy lighting candles and changing clothes in a rich villa in the seaside town of Fergenette on the outskirts of Rome. A maid reported that Juliet's husband George had driven back. Juliet told the maids to turn off the lights. As soon as George came in, he asked, "What's the matter? Power failure? " After asking, I suddenly understood and said to Juliet, "I also want to give you a surprise." Turned and let out a cry. It turned out that a large group of their friends came to visit. Everyone greeted Juliet one after another, some complimented her beauty, some measured her magnetism and made her very close. Juliet got dressed and asked her husband if he liked her. George picked her up and they jumped into the hall. Friends applauded and cheered to congratulate their wedding anniversary.

After Juliet put the two maids to bed, she gathered hand in hand with her friends and turned off the light. People told her that she could talk to people from another world. Someone held out his hand and shouted, one, two! After the drums sounded, Iriz, one of the guests, sent a message. Someone asked what it was, and a man said the message was "Everyone is loved". When did you get it? "Go and get it now." Olafi made a face, and Juliet saw it, which made her say to herself, "What do you think you are? Nobody takes you seriously, and you are abandoned! " As soon as the light came on, George picked up Juliet and made out with great affection.

At dawn, Juliet woke up and her husband had gone out. The maid said that George didn't say goodbye to her because he didn't want to disturb her. Juliet opened the window. The weather is fine. The gardener was singing and working, but suddenly she remembered the message: "Everyone is loved."

At the seaside in summer, people come and go. Juliet is talking to a friend (he is a doctor). When I was a child, I often saw ghosts, and I was afraid, but ghosts were beautiful, and now I can still see them with my eyes closed. The doctor said that riding with your husband can cure the disease and make you forget it. Juliet closed her eyes. In her dream, she saw a man in red pulling something and told her to pull it. She pulled it up. It turned out to be a big ship at sea. There were many people on board, and some of them were carrying knives. She woke up with a start and looked at the seaside. All the neighbors are playing umbrellas, adults and children have them. It's very lively. Juliet walked into the pine forest and met her sister and mother. We chatted for a while. When saying goodbye, my mother sat in her car and looked at the distance. Juliet wants to kiss her mother, but her car has left.

In the evening, George came back and said that he had already had dinner. Juliet wants to talk to him about what the doctor said during the day. Seeing that he was tired, she stopped halfway. George didn't ask, only said that tomorrow would be a very tired day, and then went to bed. George fell asleep and called "gabriela". When Juliet heard these words, she asked him what happened. He just called the woman's name again and didn't wake up. Juliet is very sad.

When she got up for dinner in the morning, Juliet asked gabriela who she was. George said he didn't know such a person at all. "You heard wrong." . The phone rang and the maid answered, but no one answered. The maid said that this has happened many times. During the day, only Juliet was left at home. When he remembered the name gabriela again, he said to himself, "He said he never cheated me."

Valentina came to Juliet's house, chatted for a while, and finally called Juliet to her house in the afternoon, saying that there was an Indian who could find out everything. This is a miracle. Juliet arrived as promised. In the hall, Indians are doing the same thing, taking out a red apple, saying that it can explain everything and everyone can pass it on, but there is nothing special about this apple. When it was Juliet's turn, she was alone in the room with the Indian. A white-haired old man who just fell asleep and woke up is the master. The master told her some irrelevant words, such as "dreams are everything", "dreams will be told whenever possible" and "love is religion". The host asked Juliet to ask questions, and she said, "I like my husband." The master smiled and asked her, "Have you seen the black socks?" She was puzzled and had to say, "I just want to ask you." The master shouted, vomited and fell, which was a mess. Juliet wants to leave. The Indian handed her something, saying it was a "forced drink".

It rained cats and dogs at night. Juliet drove home and told valentina about her past. Her grandfather is a professor. When she was a child, she followed him to watch acrobatic performances. After the performance, grandpa went to talk to the actress, and the helicopter circled in the open space behind the stage. When people were unprepared, grandpa boarded the helicopter with the actress and escaped. Grandpa was later expelled from school, but he and the actress lived happily in the country. After grandpa died, "mom took me to the funeral, and mom didn't cry."

In Juliet's garden, one of George's friends is enjoying exotic flowers and plants. He is Spanish and said that he also has a big garden, which is very famous. He also prepared a drink for Juliet to taste, saying it was called "compulsory drink". This person is very talkative, saying that friends write poems, which is very harmonious. He also performed a bullfight, and Juliet gave him a red cloth, and he immediately performed. "One step is not enough. Just like writing poetry, you will be crushed to death by a cow in one step. " Just as he was pulling Juliet, George just left, and the Spaniard and Juliet were dancing and chatting. He said, "What is the world without harmony?" It's time for bed. As soon as George went to bed, he turned off the light and went to bed. He doesn't care about Juliet. She had to turn off the light to sleep, but she could still hear the footsteps of the Spanish wandering outside. After a while, Juliet woke up and seemed to hear George talking. She got up to find out. Just about to get out of bed, George came back and said that he suddenly remembered something and called the female secretary to say. Naturally, she didn't believe it. When asked again in time, George still didn't change his mind.

Juliet was suspicious and always thought there was a third party, so she went to a private detective company with Adele. People in the company said that everything could be checked out.

When Juliet saw a statue, she remembered her artistic activities as a child. She performed in a small theater, showing the life of a saint. The role of little Juliet was sacrificed for the sake of saints and was sent to the iron grate for burning. When she was about to burn to death, her grandfather rushed to the stage and saved his granddaughter.

Juliet found a black cat in her garden. She knew it belonged to her neighbor Susie, so she took it and sent it out. The young and lively Susie showed Juliet around her garden, talking while walking, and talking about getting married. Juliet said, "He is mine, I am his, and he is everything to me." But Susie said she didn't want to get married at all. At this moment, two men came to Susie's side, and Juliet went home alone.

As soon as Juliet got home, the detective company called her to go. In the company, she watched the video, and George really hung out with that woman named gabriela. Juliet left the detective company in tears.

Juliet went to Susie's house again. Susie pointed to a man and said, "This is my fiance, 65 years old. We have sex every night. He is very capable. " Juliet met another female model here and asked her if she knew a gabriela. The female model said, "Yes, she is very beautiful." Juliet said, "She is a * * *." The female model smiled. It was getting dark, and Juliet saw Susie's garden crowded with men and women, hugging and kissing in pairs. Susie took Juliet to a big house with a big bed in the middle. Susie is gone and Juliet is drinking. A man came in and sat on the bed with Juliet. Juliet seemed to hear someone ask her, "What are you doing?" She was taken aback and ran downstairs. Everyone is looking for Juliet. She did not move in the dark. But her eyes were full of ghosts, all kinds of terrible sights, and she heard crying and laughing. Juliet shouted, "Get out!" Susie came up to Juliet and said, "You are worried about one thing, lest your husband abandon you." Juliet said, "No, I hope he abandons me." Susie said, "When he is gone, you will be free."

Juliet went to gabriela. She is not at home. The maid said that gabriela's fiance loved her very much. He selected all these furniture one by one. They will go out for a holiday tomorrow. The telephone rang and the maid handed the receiver to Juliet. She introduced herself as George's wife and wanted to talk face to face. The other party refused.

Juliet came home, and the maids were preparing luggage for George who was going on holiday. George said he didn't feel well, and the doctor said he needed to rest alone for a few days. Before leaving, George also told him to watch the gate. Say that finish, Juliet was startled by the sound of his closing the door. She saw those terrible scenes, weirdos, helicopters, scenes that burned her in the play, and the tricks of her neighbors ... Juliet opened the door and the sea was quiet, but she could still hear the voices of her so-called friends: "Can we stay?"

Distinguish and appreciate

In this film, Ferini shows the life of Juliet, a married woman from a bourgeois family, her experiences, memories, fantasies and complicated psychology, as well as her relationship with others, her family crisis, interpersonal crisis and self-crisis, as well as her dreamy subconscious world and her social environment, and makes a fierce attack on bourgeois moral concepts, norms and educational models and the real society.

The film takes the bourgeois marriage and family relationship as the main clue, showing the hypocrisy, lies, spiritual and moral degeneration and decay formed on the basis of this marriage and family relationship. Juliet's family is a bourgeois family. She and her husband own a villa in the famous Genetre seaside, which is beyond the reach of ordinary families, indicating that they are materially rich. Mentally, Juliet is loyal to her husband. She regards the relationship with her husband as "he is for me, I am for him, and he is everything to me". On their wedding anniversary, she wanted to surprise her husband and make him happy. And her husband seems to want to surprise her and bring so many friends to celebrate. It seems that this should be a happy family. However, all this is an illusion, and the real situation is not the case. In the relationship between her husband and her, her husband doesn't treat her like a person. He didn't even say hello to work in the morning. He only regards her as his private property for him to enjoy and play with. No matter what her interests, ambitions and hopes are, he can leave her at home. He can enslave her, insult her and even cheat her. There is no love between them. It is because there is no love that Juliet is most interested in the mysterious information imparting activity "Everyone Loves", and she is still thinking about this information when she wakes up the next morning. There is not only a lack of love between them, but also a deeper problem that he is cheating her. Juliet found her husband clearly calling gabriela's name in his sleep. Later, she went directly to gabriela, hoping to make things clear and save the family, but ended in failure.

Where should Juliet look for the reasons for her failure? One of the reasons is her husband's new love, moral corruption, arrogance and blatant deception. On the other hand, Juliet has predicted that her efforts will eventually fail. The film describes her origins, her relatives, her childhood scenes and her education. She comes from a middle-class family and her grandfather is a professor. His grandfather loved her, but he left his granddaughter after he eloped with the actress. Juliet's childhood family is already a broken family. Juliet was sent to a missionary school when she was very young, because her mother wanted to seek happiness for her and didn't want her little daughter to get in her way. Juliet's mother had no feelings for her and didn't even bother to say hello to Juliet when she said goodbye. On the one hand, it is such a cold family, on the other hand, it is the education of the church school, so that she only knows that "to sacrifice for the saints", she will be burned to death. Such educational and moral standards have left her with only forbearance, compromise and self-repression everywhere in her life. Her dream of pulling a boat during a nap at the seaside is a reflection of this depression. Her struggle and resistance were very weak, and she still only sought some suggestions to achieve peace when she knew the relationship between her husband and gabriela. Her husband packed his bags and set off. She clearly knew that she was going to find gabriela, but she was patient again and again, afraid to pierce this enough paper and bravely accused her husband. She can only suppress herself. It is this kind of self-sacrifice and self-repression that makes the husband who does whatever he wants more unscrupulous. It is also these that break up the family and make Juliet fail. The film's description of the breakdown of marriage and the disintegration of bourgeois families is exquisite and profound, pointing at Juliet's weakness, forbearance and self-repression, as well as the religious education and its moral norms and standards that caused this mental state.

The whole film shows the opposition between two things, two characters and two mental states, which makes Juliet's illness reach an extremely acute level, makes her more afraid of life and people around her, concretizes her subconscious imagination and hallucinations, and thus becomes a monster, an elf and a ghost.

Juliet is a serious person and takes life seriously, but in real life, she is out of place with others. No matter those who are engaged in mysterious information transmission activities in her home, Indians and those who work in private detective companies, they are in sharp contrast with Juliet. They can't communicate with Juliet, communicate with each other and understand each other. The more obvious opposition to Juliet is Susie. Juliet is serious about marriage, while Susie "doesn't want to get married at all". She is young and lively and just wants to enjoy herself in this garden. Her fiance turned out to be an old man who could be her father, but she was very satisfied because he was "singing every night" and "very capable". She is not only cynical, but also wants Juliet to be as dissolute as she is, and even puts Juliet in a big house with a man. It can be said that Susie is a typical example of openness. This time, Juliet suddenly heard "What do you want?" This is her inner doubt, but also a subconscious reaction, thus avoiding the man. This proves that she is a self-disciplined person. The opposition, or contrast, between her and Susie made her feel more deeply that not only did her husband cheat herself, but there was no affection, no communication, no friendship, no love between them. The world outside the family, together with people in this world, also lacked these things, and some were only the relationship between sex and money, and the mutual use based on pleasure. Therefore, she had hallucinations. Those people in Susie's garden are all ferocious and terrible, like ghosts, even the beautiful garden is frightening. In this way, whether it is Juliet's inner world or her outer world, she has a terrible feeling: there is no human feelings, no interpersonal relationships, no love, no friendship, no beauty, no truth, no real people, only some elves, or more accurately, ghosts. This is the society in which Juliet lives, and it is her external relationship. This kind of society makes her depressed, suffocated and unbearable. Therefore, it is not only the ungrateful husband who wants to get rid of her and cheat her, but also the people around her and the outside world that suffocate Juliet. So she said that she hoped her husband would abandon her, and Susie said that Juliet would be "free". Finally, her husband left, but Juliet felt uneasy and uneasy. Her eyes are still full of terrible scenes and weirdos, and she still feels suffocated and scared. This woman who grew up under bourgeois and religious education, although able to tolerate and suppress herself, suffered a heavy blow in front of marriage and society and finally failed. Her self-restraint and self-repression are caused by religious education, and the drawback of this education is that her personality is suppressed. Juliet is a typical example of bourgeois education. Her ideals are house, family, husband, God and church. The husband is the master, and the wife should be tamed and obeyed. Such self-restraint and self-restraint embody holiness, which is the opposite of sin. Like sin, this sacredness will suppress individuality and originality. There can be no natural love or natural emotional expression under repression. So Juliet's marriage and family will also break up. In other words, the relationship between people based on the bourgeoisie and religious morality will eventually collapse. What the film wants to express is to save people from interpersonal relationships that hinder normal development and natural emotional communication between people.