There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. - Federico Fellini

Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the opposite.