in the first few century of our age and the roman world be in decay . in one hand there be wealth and abundance and in the other people be loose their religion and their value and purpose of living . collosseum game be a great part of people interest some data indicates that and at some point and there be 170 day of game a year while that 170 without work for citizen . those who have power and have more interest in their orgy of eating and vomiting and their sexual perversity than in govern the people . such be the image present to u by roman poet of this period such a juvenal . today and we would rather see a good violent film than to watch and say a film of ingmar bergman which would perhaps give u more insight about life and about our condition a emotional being and football be take over our life . back then and people interest be about romantic novel about triangular love affair . this be the plot of fellini satyricon . the screen play be base upon a roman novel and satyricon and which mock about those romantic novel and turn them upside down and by present the triangular love affair between two men and a little boy . i do not remember the name of the roman author of this novel but i know part of the text be lose . it be not an action movie and nor narrative and it be purely pictorical . fellini satyricon be the most striking depiction of roman decadence . it not about historical fact and it an image of what decadence can be . the relevance of this image be such that we even find an explicit parody of it in asterix in helvetia .