La Strada is a film that I rolled my eyes at when I first heard I had to watch it for class but then fell in love with the film, in particular the characters.
The film is about a young girl Gelsomina (Giuliette Masina) a strange and quiet girl who is sold by her mother to Zampano (Anthony Quinn) an aging traveling strongman. At first Zampano doesn't treat her well, he abuses her both physically and mentally, however the two realize that they need each other in the barren world that they travel.
The film is a road movie that only Fellini could do with it's dark moments being mixed in with sequences of physical comedy that give the feeling of a Chaplin film.
One thing that I really admired about this film is how Fellini allowed his characters actions to speak louder than words and let us form our own opinions on what theses characters were really like on the inside. Our view of the characters morph and grow the same way the characters do.
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