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The Great Beauty “The Great Beauty” is a quite strange movie because it hasn’t a real plot. Through the description of the decline of italian upper middle class it wants to put in evidence the decline of all italian society. This class moves around the leading actor, Jepp Gambardella played by a great Toni Servillo, a reporter and writer who from forty years is looking for this great beauty that gives him the starting point to his second book. But he can’t find it, even if he lives surrounded by all the wonderful roman beauties, because he lives only at night, from one party to another one, meeting a collection of snob people who only like to eat, drink and speak each other about frivolous topics and where the only important thing is how you appear. Only at the end of the movie he understands the emptiness of all his life and that at the age of sixty-five it is not late yet to begin a new way of life. I found it quite sad and gloomy, but dreamlike too, with the presence of a dwarf, a giraffe and a group of flamingos that remind me clearly Fellini’s movies. The daylight that shines over all the wonderful monuments of the city of Rome, full, as always, of tourists from all over the world, is the only way of hope that it gives us. It seems to show us the way to change our current complicated situation: with all the beauties that we have in Italy we could all live serenely and be the most beautiful and envied country in the world! I can’t say that it isn’t a good movie but I prefer other types of movies. I am curious to know other opinions about it, especially from people from other countries, so, if you have watched it, please send it to me.

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The Great Beauty

“The Great Beauty” is a quite a strange movie because it hasn’t a real plot. Through the description of the decline of the italian upper middle class it wants to put in evidence  make evident the decline of all italian society. This class moves around the leading actor, Jepp Gambardella, played by a  the great Toni Servillo, a reporter and writer who from for forty years is looking for this great beauty that gives him will give him the starting point to his second book. But he can’t find it, even if as he lives surrounded by all the wonderful roman beauties, because he lives only at night, going from one party to another one, meeting a collection of snobby people who only like to eat, drink and speak to each other about frivolous topics. and where To them, the only important thing is how you they look appear. Only at the end of the movie does he understands the emptiness of all his life, and he realizes that at the age of sixty-five it is not too late yet to begin a new way of life. I found it quite sad and gloomy, but dreamlike too, with the presence of a dwarf, a giraffe and a group of flamingos that reminded me clearly of Fellini’s movies. The symbolism of  daylight that shining over all the wonderful monuments of in the city of Rome (full, as always, of tourists from all over the world) is the only way of hope that it gives us represents our only way of hope. It seems to show us the way to change our current complicated situation: with all of the beauty that we have in Italy we could all live serenely and be the most beautiful and envied country in the world! I can’t say that it isn’t a good movie, but I prefer other types of movies. I am curious to know other opinions about it, especially from people from other countries, so, if you have watched it, please send it to me.

 

 

Really well done, Luca!  You even have a lot of your punctuation down!  Some of the sentences I didn't change because they weren't wrong, although there are more common ways of saying them.

For example: "The Great Beauty is quite a strange movie because it hasn't a real plot".  In the  UK, this might be a very common phrasing.  However, in North America, we would be more likely to say

"The Great Beauty is quite a strange movie because it doesn't have a real plot".  Neither are wrong, so I would say go with which ever you prefer!

 

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Ciao Gianluca. Corrections that need to be made are bolded and corrections that were made are bolded in red with an explanation in parenthesis. I hope you find the corrections helpful, let me know if you have any other questions and I would be happy to help you!

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“The Great Beauty” is a quite strange movie because it hasn’t a real plot. Through the description of the decline of italian upper middle class it wants to put in evidence the decline of all italian society. This class moves around the leading actor, Jepp Gambardella played by a great Toni Servillo, a reporter and writer who from forty years is looking for this great beauty that gives him the starting point to his second book. But he can’t find it, even if he lives surrounded by all the wonderful roman beauties, because he lives only at night, from one party to another one, meeting a collection of snob people who only like to eat, drink and speak each other about frivolous topics and where the only important thing is how you appear. Only at the end of the movie he understands the emptiness of all his life and that at the age of sixty-five it is not late yet to begin a new way of life. I found it quite sad and gloomy, but dreamlike too, with the presence of a dwarf, a giraffe and a group of flamingos that remind me clearly Fellini’s movies. The daylight that shines over all the wonderful monuments of the city of Rome, full, as always, of tourists from all over the world, is the only way of hope that it gives us. It seems to show us the way to change our current complicated situation: with all the beauties that we have in Italy we could all live serenely and be the most beautiful and envied country in the world! I can’t say that it isn’t a good movie but I prefer other types of movies. I am curious to know other opinions about it, especially from people from other countries, so, if you have watched it, please send it to me.

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“The Great Beauty” is a quite strange movie because it doesn’t have (“Haven’t is the wrong contraction choice and should be corrected as shown) a real plot. Through the description of the decline of Italian (Italian is a proper noun and should be capitalized) upper middle class; (A semicolon should be inserted here because your joining two similar sentences together) evidence suggests (The first part of the sentence before “evidence” is not needed, also suggests is needed after “evidence”) the decline of all Italian (Italian is a proper noun and should be capitalized) society. This class moves around the leading actor, Jepp Gambardella played by a great Toni Servillo, a reporter and writer who for (“For” is needed instead of “from” as “for” is more grammatically correct in English) forty years has been (“Has been looking” is more grammatically correct than just “is”) looking for this great beauty that gives him the starting point to his second book. But he couldn’t (Couldn’t is the better contraction choice for this part of the sentence) find it, even if he was (What was he surrounded by? You need to use “was” because your describing the movie in past tense because you have already seen the movie) surrounded by all the wonderful Roman (Roman is a proper noun) beauties, because he lives from night to night, one party to the next (The part of the sentence needs to be corrected as shown) meeting a collection of snobby (“Snob” refers to one person “snobby” refers to several, or a group of people) people who only like to eat, drink and speak with (Who are the people speaking to? They are speaking “with” each other) each other about frivolous topics and where appearance is the only important thing. (This part of the sentence should be corrected as shown) Only at the end of the movie does (What understands? He the main actor of the movie understands) he understand (No “s” is needed and should just be “understand”) the emptiness of all his life and that at the age of sixty-five it is not late (“Yet” is not needed) to begin a new way of life. I found it quite sad and gloomy, but dreamlike too, with the presence of a dwarf, a giraffe and a group of flamingos that remind me clearly of (“Of” is needed to help the reader better understand what you mean) Fellini’s movies. The daylight that shines over all the wonderful monuments of the city of Rome, full, as always, of tourists from all over the world, is the only ray (The word should be “ray” not “way”) of hope that it gives us. It seems to show us the way to change our current complicated situation: with all the beauties that we have in Italy we could all live serenely and be the most beautiful and envied country in the world! I can’t say that it isn’t a good movie but I prefer other types of movies. I am curious to know other opinions about it, especially from people from other countries, so, if you have watched it, please send me your thoughts on the movie. (The last part of the sentence should be corrected as shown)

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