La Dolce Vita

Ok, first I'm going to start out with saying how stupid some girls can be. If the guy doesn't love you and tells you he doesn't love you, get out of the car and move on with your life. The end of the movie where Marcello and that woman were in the car and he said they had been bickering for like 4 hours I wanted to freak out. I agree he shouldn't have hit her, and yelled at her so much but Man! Ok, I'm done with that tid bit.

Next I'm going to add that I really didn't understand this movie. I guess I was getting confused between all the females that were in the movie. It seemed like in the beginning of the movie everyone loved Marcello, he had all these woman after him, all of the Paparazzi always following him. But at the end of the movie it all went down hill. He had no woman, he had seemed like he lost his own mind at the party.

I really have nothing else to say about it. I didn't see the connections between the beginning scene and the ending scene. I really am drawing a blank about anything else about this movie. I don't know. This movie is really hard to talk about, expecially because we didn't get to talk about it in class. I was so lost all throughout the movie and had absolutly no idea what it was trying to say to me. I'm sorry that this is such a bad Blog, but help is much needed and would be greatly appreciated if someone could just help me out.

Hotel California

This movie was very hard to understand. Not only that but a very tall moved into the front of the classroom where he didn't sit before, and I couldn't read the subtitles very well. Not that it would have helped much because the entire movie didn't make such sense to me.

The reason I titled this Hotel California, was because this place that they were staying at reminded me of the song where once you come in, you can't get out. With all the repeating of the sentences, and he kept saying that there were all these long hallways with no end. Also all the people with their mouths moving but nothing coming out. The music was very dramatic all the time, and the flash pictures of the woman kept making my mind think weird things. Like when she fell onto the bed and it showed her falling from like every angle around her, and when she died, it did the same thing except the picture seemed to change. It was like all of these people were ghosts stuck in this purgatory. It was very dream like, very much like a guy trapped in his own mind without knowing it. He just cannot win in this movie. He can't win the girl, he can't win the game, and he doesn't know what he wants.

He was very much obsessed with this girl that didn't seem to want anything to do with him. He wouldn't leave he alone the entire movie, and he had all of these photos of her in a drawer. And he kept losing the game to her husband. But if they seemed to know each other, and he seemed so in love with her, you'd think they would be comfortable with each other, so why the Vu formality? It's similar in Spanish, and we hardly ever use the formal tense of Spanish.

This movie really didn't make any sense to me at all. I know that we weren't suppose to try to catch the "moral of the story", but it's hard not to. We are so use to "getting something" out of the movies that we watch, that it's hard to watch a movie and not look for the plot of the story. I didn't feel like I got anything out of this movie. There was no story to it, it was just a bunch of random stuff thrown together into an hour and a half of film.

Thats all for now. Sorry I didn't have anything intelligent to say about it, but I really couldn't find an Inner Meaning to the movie.