Moviegoers had to guess what was real and what was imagined with little help from the director, and almost no one knew for sure what they had seen after one viewing. 8 ½ is a film that is full of juxtaposed dreams, visions, lies, fantasies, and realities in a cinematic version of the director's own stream of consciousness. Guido seeks advice from older clerics and priests which of course bring back his childhood guilt, sexual repression, shame, and current infidelities resulting in numerous flashbacks and dream sequences. Guido clearly represents Fellini and combines all his lusts, fears, sexual fetishes, desires and self doubts as a filmmaker and artist. The story is about a film director named Guido who feels he is trapped and a prisoner of his own life and his own profession. What they didn't know was that the film I was going to make had fled from me."įortunately this predicament led legendary director Federico Fellini to come up with his somewhat autobiographical masterpiece 8 ½, which is not only considered one of Fellini's all-time greatest achievements, but one of the greatest of all films about 'making a film' ever made. I suffered director's block, like writer's block. "In the case of 8 ½, something happened to me which I had feared could happen, but when it did, it was more terrible than I could ever have imagined.
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