daines'n around

I watched "La Strada," the fabulous 1954 Fellini film.

Gilsomina plants tomatoes when they finally stop the motorbike/circus wagon.
Zampanò gets ready to leave, and Gilsomina asks why they aren't going to stay there.

"What? Did you think we were going to stay here and watch your tomatoes grow?"

And so they headed off on the Road.

The road: a metphor for life. Zampanò: the symbolic man who dosn't think or feel about anything other than himself. The Fool: the symbolic emotional-driven character who doesn't change the way he acts even when he knows that he is going to die.

And a conversation Gilsomina has with The Fool makes me think.

The Fool: I am ignorant, but I read books.
You won't believe it, everything is useful...
this pebble for instance.

Gelsomina: Which one?

The Fool: Any pebble is useful.

Gelsomina: What for?

The Fool: For... I don't know.
If I knew I'd be the Almighty, who knows all.
When you are born and when you die... Who knows?
I don't know the use of this pebble, but it must have a use.
For if it's useless, everything is useless. So are the stars!