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Paralyzed Souls

Relationships can be variously different, symbolism of attraction, friendship.
Obviously, what people appreciate and hate about us comes from their personality.

I think the sweetness in this picture is that Italian flavour, which is always felt in Italian films, like a fresh bottle of limoncello.
In Federico Fellini movies, this Italian taste is always individually delicate, having its own sincerity and passion.

La Strada tells about a 16 year old girl who, for most of her life, has seen and heard nothing.

You can even say that she slightly has a deviation in her psychological state, at least it felt so to me.

She and her family live without any basic economic needs, no food, no clothes. Such an unclear life.

At one moment comes a circus man who had once worked with her older sister, but her sister, under some strange circumstances, died.

He came to this family once again, this time to buy our main character, the younger sister.

From this moment on, she is no longer part of her family.
She is owned by the same circus man.
Both of their lives are going to change drastically, and do not expect their mutually spent time together to be an example of happiness.

Fellini talks here about different subjects, from the place of a person in society to abusive relationships.

The entire Italian arrangement here adds a subtle manner of life, where in the middle of emotional Italians hides a dark flame.

This circus man often mocks her. She, as some may think a fool, goes all after him.
But people often forget that we are dealing with a teenager.

She has no one else. She does not know this world. She never had a chance to live independently.

But that stoical coward, knowing her situation, uses her. He demands from her to be his personal protégé,
to forget her being a young person and accept her fate as an item that serves his needs, whether it is playing the drums while he performs stunts or just pointing her where and with whom to talk.

In La Strada it is very important to see how there is no need for technical frame uniqueness, but enough of a plot written by emotions and not by methodical factors.

The main role of the teenage girl is played by, at the time, the 35 year old wife of Fellini himself.
Her presence on the screen shows us the hardships of life both in the abusive sense and in society generally.
We exist in a world where people often cannot understand how to accept themselves or find their place inside a community.

We know how the strong, charismatic people explore their lives.
They live their success, of course not without problems.
But what do we do about the weakest, those who do not know how to stand for themselves and develop their own roads to success?

La Strada is a dramatic sequence of sociology, presented through the abusive roller coaster between two absolutely different people.

The simplicity of sadness might cause outcomes we never imagined, tolerating them only when they materialise into reality.


3.8/5


La Strada - Paralyzed Souls