satyricon and the most visually glorious film i have ever see and be an art history textbook liberate from it page and transfer to film . the image metamorphose from monochrome to color and from abstraction to realism and from seem to be in a studio to be outdoors before your amazed eye . the exterior be breathtaking and the set be superlative and the color and the composition and the lighting be stun . i have see this in painting and mosaic and but never in film . not even tarkovsky can compare . satyricon do not tell a story in the usual sense of the word . there be two protagonist and but their adversary isn not on the screen and he in the director chair . fate push encolpius and ascyltos from one adventure to the next . like read don quixote and there be story within the story and we lose our protagonist sometimes and but then they reappear to guide u to the next chapter within the art history book fellini have create . history and architecture and mythology and painting and poetry represent these be the subject of the movie . but even big than that be the true sense of mystery that this film evoke regard art . art be bear out of mankind need to create order in the face of chaos and mystery . the mystery still have not be solve and so art ( this film and for example ) continue to live . art be humanity and and satyricon be a wake dream on this topic . although time change and more shift and mankind hasn not change much in the 2000 year since petronius write the satyricon . within the chaos of this film you will find much that be familiar and even if you can not really tell your friend what it about .