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In the end, The Great Beauty refuses easy redemption. Jep does not write his second novel; the party does not stop; Rome remains a beautiful wreck. But the film’s final image—Jep floating in a barge on the Tiber at dawn, as a young girl paints a canvas with her eyes closed—offers a quiet epiphany. The “great beauty” is not something to be captured or consumed. It is the search itself. It is the acceptance of mortality, the willingness to look at the horror and the splendor simultaneously. As Jep finally approaches the old nun to find out why she lives on her knees, the film closes on a note of tentative grace. Sorrentino suggests that in a world of infinite, hollow images, the only authentic act is to stop performing and simply look. Jep Gambardella, after forty years of looking away, finally chooses to see. And in that seeing, the imaginary journey finds its strength. The.Great.Beauty.2013.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264-Pub...