Makes the film a chain of gratuitous episodes which may even be amusing in their ambivalent realism
No 51 - 8 1/2 Director - Federico Fellini It is a terrible thing to say, but as I watched 8 1/2 for the first time, I realised I had seen this premise before. And not in the musical 9. It was in an episode (a double episode to be more precise) of Frasier - Don Juan in Hell. Whilst it is named after the George Bernard Shaw scene , it has more than a passing resemblance to 8 1/2. As Frasier has a bit of a breakdown and faces a tough decision he is visited (and overwhelmed) by visions of important women from his past. However, besides the visits from the women, I knew very little of what to expect - and so I began my journey into the mind of Federico Fellini. The film is very hard to pin down and is difficult to explain. We are essentially following a film director named Guido (Marcello Mastroianni ) as he tries to put together his new film whilst at the same time having a bit of a breakdown (well, that's how I see it). In order to illustrate this point the film flits between rea...