In: Psychology
LA DOLCE VITA
It is an Italian drama film of 1960, the film has Marcello Rubini, a journalist writing for gossip magazines his seven days journey through the sweet life of Rome in search of love and happiness. The film was a massive box office hit in Europe, Italy, and France.
SUMMARY
Episode 1 -- Marcello meets Madellena in a nightclub a beautiful and wealthy heiress who is tired of Rome and is on search for new sensations while Marcello holds another feeling forRomee he thinks that rome suits him as a jungle he can hide in to, they then make love in a prostitutes bedroom whom they have given a ride home.
When he reaches his apartment he finds that her fiance has overdosed while she being semiconscious he tells her that how much he loves her while waiting for her recovery he makes a phone call to Madellena
Episode 2 -- On the next day, he goes for an assignment for the arrival of Sylvia an actress where he is met by lots of news reporters. , Marcello casually recommends that Sylvia is taken on a tour of St Peter's. Inside St Peter's dome, a news reporter complains that Sylvia is "an elevator" because none of them can match her energetic climb up the numerous flights of stairs. Inspired, Marcello maneuvers forward to be alone with her when they finally reach the balcony overlooking the Vatican.
at dawn, Marcello drives Sylvia's hotel where her fiance is waiting for her in the car he slaps Sylvia and also assaults Marcello
Episode 3 -- Marcello meets his friend Steiner inside a church who shows him his book of Sanskrit grammar
Episode 4 -- Late afternoon Marcello, Paparazzo and Emma goes to the outskirts of Rome to cover the sighting of madonna by two children where a lot of crowd gathers.
Episode 5 -- Marcello meets his father with paparazzo they go to the cha cha club together where Marcello introduces his father to his ex-girlfriend fanny. Fanny likes Marcello's father and invites him to her home. Fanny comes out of her home sad as Marcello father becomes ill
Marcello's father gets a mild heart attack, Marcello wants his father to stay with him so that he can know him more but being ill his father wants to go home and leaves for home in a taxi.
Episode 6 -- Marcello, Nino and other friends are driven to the castle owned by aristocrats outside Rome , he there meets Madallena who proposes him to marry herMarcelloo professes his love to her avoinding her proposal. Another man kisses and embraces Maddalena, who loses interest in Marcello. He rejoins the group, and eventually spends the night with Jane, an American artist, and heiress.
Episode 7 -- Marcello is now old with grey hair, Marcello and a group of partygoers break into a beach house owned by Riccardo who is a friend of Marcello in this party drunk Marcello tries to provoke other people into an orgy, however, the party descends into a mayhem with Marcello throwing pillow feathers all over. Riccardo breaks into the house and angrily tel the partiers to leave the house.
Paola, the adolescent waitress from the seaside restaurant in Fregene, calls to Marcello from across an estuary but the words they exchange are lost on the wind, drowned out by the crash of the waves. He returns to the partygoers; one of the women joins him and they hold hands as they walk away from the beach. In a long final close-up, Paola waves to Marcello then stands watching him with an enigmatic smile.