Why do her eyebrows change


At least between the whole movie and the last seen walking? Whereas they are unusualy short the majority of the film, I noticed that suddenly they were of full length in the last scene.

Was this symbolic of something? A mistake? WTH!!

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Because in the deleted scenes she gets a makeover and is really hot now and then the most popular guy in school falls in love with her. so it really is a happy ending afterall.

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I think Cabiria's eyebrows change after she becomes engaged to Oscar. This may have something to do with the fact that she had given up prostitution.

In 8 1/2 there is a scene in which Guido draws dark, short eyebrows on Carla and says something about how he made her eyebrows like a "whore." I don't know if that is just a Fellini thing, or if it is based on cultural truth.

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Actually the real reason her eyebrows change is because the pointed eyebrows she wears eariler were a sign of her work as a prositute. You will see it in other films of the ers and also other Fellini films. Saragina has them in both her appearances, Marcello paints them onto his mistress when they are role-playing before sex in 8 1/2 and, if I recall correctly, also appear on the women of a similar profession in Satyricon. I don't remeber if that particular symbol appears in Casanova, though I suppose if it did, given the attitude of the film towards Casanova (a representation of how Fellini felt about himself, his past and his future at the time) I think Casanova would have had to wear them as well.

Once Cabiria has the hope of a life outside prositution with the ever so dubious Oscar she no longer needs to wear that symbol of her station because her new role will that of wife and hopefully mother.

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