this be definitely not the movie to see if you seek a good 80 90 minute soft action or love film for entertainment . on the other hand and it will take only two and a half hour of your time to see some of the most striking and colorful imagery of the roman world of all time of which and every director have difficulty in escape . the final minotaur scene and i understand and be not on the original petronius novel ( it couldn not be ) . it be the fellinian moment of the film . all of fellini film end up in some sort of non sense apotheosis which take your feeling of be lose to the high point and signal you and at the moment you be think you be start to grasp it and that there a whole lot more than what you can comprehend . fellini once say that he love decadence much more than sound mindedness and since the former be so much more rich in it imagery and color .