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May 3, 2006
happy endings
My pictures never end. They never have a simple solution…Because there are no “solutions” in the audience’s lives…By giving happy endings to films, you goad your audience into going on living in a trite, bland manner, because they are now sure that sometime, somewhere, something happy is going to happen to them, too, and without them having to do anything about it. Conversely, by not serving them the happy ending on a platter, you can make them think; you can remove some of the smug security. Then they will have to find their own answers.
Federico Fellini
Posted by amin at May 3, 2006 9:51 PM