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Actors: Giulietta Masina, Francois Perier, Amedeo Nazzari, Aldo Silvani, Franca Marzi
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Nights of Cabiria |
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Cabiria is a prostitute who wears a tough translucent exterior but nevertheless looks for meaning through romantic love. Though she has deflating experiences like being pushed into the Tiber River, and being led-on and used by an actor, she repeatedly opens her heart to the hope of finding stability and love.
--David Bellos, Resident Scholar
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Cabiria is a petite, waif-like streetwalker in Rome not long after the Second World War. Born to lose, but never to give up, she is a gentle soul who manages to maintain a positive outlook through countless heartbreaking setbacks. (She's sort of a female counterpart of Chaplin's Tramp.) A movie star from the Via Veneto takes her home to his fancy apartment, then gets distracted by other things; a boyfriend steals 40,000 lire and nearly drowns her; she goes to a shrine to seek the help of the Blessed Virgin; and eventually she meets a kind accountant who has watched her act out her heart's desires while hypnotized on a stage. Will he turn out to be her knight in shining armor? Masina acts her lovely heart out in this very sweet, depressing 1957 classic co-written and directed by her husband Federico Fellini.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Nights of Cabiria |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- prostitute
Ethnic/Regional/Gender story?
Yes
Culture of surrounding area:
- Italian
Poverty story?
Yes
Poverty plotlets:
- coping with poverty (general)
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- prostitute/concubine
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
Body type
- (woman) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) average build
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- govt employee
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Body type
- (man) average
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Italy
City?
Yes
City:
- dirty, grimy (like New York)
- dangerous
Misc setting
- bar
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
- spiritual
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- kissing
Check here if B&W
Yes
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- Italian
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- None
If lots of song/dance...
- lot of dancing
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