This is a bloody, disgusting, disgusting movie. It's a masterpiece that doesn't please everyone. It's like a ruthless gesture that shames our boring times, as everyone is just watching boring series. Free from 16th Satyricon reproduces the Greek and Roman myths in a degenerate way. The model depicts the fragment of the same name by Petronius - a hedonist who celebrated and mocked all decadence at the same time. Most importantly, Satyricon was created in 1969 at a time when unbridled sex still went unpunished. The characters in the film correspond to those in the legends. They know no "characterization" in the sense of psychology. They simply act according to their nature. Without self-observation or the possibility of development. Is there even a character that is important to us in the film? I don't think so. I didn't care about any of them. None is defined by their personality. They all simply correspond to their myth. But Fellini seems fully in his element! Never again did he film grotesquely! Everywhere dwarves and giants, fat people, hermaphrodites, transvestites, cannibals... In short, a visual excess! Satyricon plays in a world full of self-hatred and amorality. A cruel and passionate world! Like the poet Petronius, Fellini is fascinated by excess. From the abnormal. But is Satyricon really about ancient Rome? Or rather the summer of love 1968 - doomed to ruin?
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