Beauty, blessing, misfortune?

Garrett 2022-04-19 09:01:57

Part, 1 Marlene, beautiful name, beautiful person. How beautiful is she? As soon as she appeared, the noisy town was suddenly quiet, and men, women, old people, and children were all watching her. The lawyer's newspaper was lost, and she didn't pick it up; an old man who knew her father took her hand and kissed her, unwilling to let go. The men around were all mad with jealousy; the boys tried their best to see her. Cycling through the alley; the eyes of the women are all murderous...

When she walks, her eyelashes are always drooping, and she doesn't want to meet all kinds of stares attached to her; she hardly speaks, but her voice is warm The childbirth is pleasant, I am afraid that it will captivate more people or attract more jealousy, or disdain to talk to those who covet her beauty; she only at the end of the film, when responding to the boy's "good luck" Laughed because she was always full of grief; she never shed a tear, even when she was beaten by a group of jealous women and driven out of Sicily by the town The screams, the corners of the eyes, are always dry.

She was alone in the beginning. Her husband was on an expedition, and the men in the town were eager to talk about her; not to mention the women, who hated her as long as she existed. Her only relative in town, her old and deaf father, couldn't protect her either. In his class, male students verbally insulted his daughter, but he couldn't hear him saying, "Yes."

She seemed to have all the love—all the men wanted her, and wherever she went, men took off their hats with pretentious grace. But is that love? There are only three people who love her - a father, a husband, and a boy. But the boy couldn't protect her either. He went to church, he wished God bless her, he promised God to burn a candle every day; he followed her on a bike, he was afraid to go to the tree in front of her house and secretly forgot about her; he saw her being humiliated, he listened to her To all the people talking about her, slander; he saw her crying alone after her husband died, and he could only give her a hug and a word of comfort, but God, in her heart, he was always a child; when he Seeing her become a prostitute, he passed out; when he saw her being beaten, his heart was about to be torn... but he was still powerless, powerless! He could only look at her, silently at her. He looked at her, and he always fantasized about being a hero, saving his lover again and again. In his fantasies, he was strong, invincible and a gentleman, and Malena was only his. But he couldn't save her. Then the boy's eyes became more and more sad and painful, and when Marianne agreed to commit herself to the ugly old lawyer, a tear welled from one eye in the hole in the wall.

Part and 2 just watched silently, the boy changed from a child in shorts to a boy in trousers who could say "haircut and face trimming" to the barber, and later, the boy could hug young girls on the street waist up. In the company of true love, he grew and transformed.

Part, 3 The plot of Malena's final return to Sicily is dramatic. So everyone is quiet. In the market, the awkward silence before she said good morning also contrasted with the enthusiasm of the other women later. The women were discussing: "She also has wrinkles at the corners of her eyes." "Her waist is also thick." The protection of her husband is secondary. As long as she is beautiful, rumors and slander will always exist. But she is no longer as beautiful as she used to be. The women are psychologically balanced, the women begin to sympathize with the tragic experience of the fellow woman, so they are warm, they are generous, and they treat her in a friendly way that has never been done before.

The attitude of the men in the town is also worth pondering. When there were only men, everyone slandered her and talked about how many lovers she had; as soon as she appeared, she quickly took off her hat and bowed, behaving extremely gentle and attentive; when she took off her black widow dress and appeared in front of everyone, everyone Realizing that she was going to be a prostitute, the woman thought to herself: "Look, she is indeed a slut!" On the one hand, the men looked down on her, but on the other hand, they held out a dozen lighters; Mussolini's tooth-extracting dentist and two prominent men fought for her and even went to court, but when she was beaten horribly by the angry women, the men felt pity for the beautiful face and body being beaten by them. It was devastated beyond recognition, but no one dared to come forward...

The story is always described from the perspective of a boy, one is the expression of pure true love, which is in strong contrast with other people; the other is that only Malena in the eyes of the boy is real Yes, it is pure, and it better reflects that background; three is that as the story develops, the boy also grows up, and this is another growing story of a child struggling with pain.

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Malena quotes

  • Renato Amoroso: From now on, I'll be at your side. Forever, I promise. Just give me time to grow up.

  • Renato Amoroso: Buona fortuna, signora Malèna.