La Dolce Vita

Upon watching this film, I immediately understood why Federico Fellini has a category all to himself. Just from the opening scene of La Dolce Vita with a helicopter flying over Rome carrying a statue of Jesus Christ, seemingly "blessing" the entire city, one can already discern that this movie will be something completely different from its contemporaries. This is perhaps most realized in the segmented scenes of the film. Rather than tell a complete story from beginning to end, Fellini and the screenwriters opted for brief vignettes in the life of the main character, Marcello Rubini. However in only showing us these fragmented episodes, Fellini has given the audience a more natural story and a more realistic look into the life of Marcello and of upper-class society in an economically booming Rome.