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.