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Nights of Cabiria...

Can there be a movie more innocent then this? Can any actress act a part with so much honesty as Giulietta Masina playing Cabiria?

Words cannot do justice to describe the way Fellini and Masina have captured the soul of Cabiria in this master piece. The beautiful, innocent Cabiria…through all the façade that Cabiria presents in the movie, you get glimpses of her actual self, be it the pure enchantment with which she touches the face of a famous actor who picks her up from in front of a restaurant, or when she breaks down in front of Virgin Mary asking her to bestow her grace on her…or when she talks to an imaginary lover under a trance… or when she goes for confession to Father Giovani, even sometimes when she is with Oscar, the man she thinks loves her. Her childlike innocence radiates out of face and fills your heart.

Sometimes I wonder, could Masina ever be herself after being Cabiria. Of all his characters, Fellini once said, Cabiria was the only one he was still worried about.

Every time I watch this movie my heart weeps knowing what awaits Cabiria. But still I watch…just to see her get up after Oscar vanishes with her money…just to see her smile in the closing sequence. It’s as if God is smiling through her.