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Wednesday, September 07, 2011

8 1/2: The Final Dance



I was asked about overcoming Fear, so I had to think more about it.
I had to go back through all the deep archives of my mind.

The Dance at the end of Fellini's film "8 1/2" is Triumph over Fear, and thus is Life's rejection of the Danse Macabre, or the Dance of Death, an icon of the Plague Years.  It is the response of the sunny Mediterranean to the cold north of "The Seventh Seal".


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