It's "La Dolce Vita", People!

Rating: Null/10 (18 February 2004)

I've seen a lot of comments here about how boring or brilliant it is. And of the 659 or so before me, of which I read fewer than 60, several or many others may have made the same point. But it's simple: This is 2003's "La Dolce Vita". It's about how success in middle-class life means nothing (at least, not directly) to the status of the human soul. The emptiness of drinking parties until late at night, the false nights of love (the redhead), etc. It's all one big remake. And Sofia Coppolla laughs at us by showing Bill Murray's character flipping past "La Dolce Vita" one sleepless night. I do have to agree with his character's line towards the end: what kind of a restaurant has you pay to cook your own food? Hotpot. And there's no accounting for it.