"I Vitelloni" is an early, somehow autobiographical Fellini movie that tells the story of five young men hanging around in a provincial town and trying to make ends meet. In the movie, we get to see what the life of grown-ups who still live in their parents' house (something very common in Italy) is like. The story itself is rather simple and, while it mainly focuses on one character (Fausto), quite tedious although there are some comedian aspects in it (as Fausto betrays his wife and how his employer throws him out). Although Fellini wanted to give some depth to this movie - e.g. by showing the fateful encounter of Moraldo and the boy working at the local railway station - he somehow missed the point. The dialogs are not profound enough, action and reaction of the characters remain predictable and the "spice", which we can find in other Fellini movies, seems to be missing in this one.
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