Word: antichrists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What a Mess!" The merits of this depressing allegory are many. In conception it is noble and profound, and its visualization of the principal symbols-particularly the apparitions of Christ and antichrist -is stunning. Fellini may be pardoned for believing that "La Dolce Vita is my greatest work." Nonetheless, he is wrong. For all its vitality, the film is decadent, an artistic failure. The creator thinks the film "puts a thermometer to a sick world," but it may be that he has simply taken his own temperature...
...Cain cannot murder Abel without protest, as entire nations cannot be held in slavery with no one taking the part of the oppressed, so one cannot speak of true peace, but only of acquiescence and coexistence with the murderer . . . But [some] still stretch out their hands to the new Antichrists and even race to see who can first shake hands with them and exchange sweet smiles . . . Can a Christian confronted by one who massacres Christians and insults God smile and flatter? Can a Christian opt for alliance with those who prepare for the coming of the Antichrist in countries still...