Someone made a conclusion after watching this film: China has "Sunny Days", the United States has "Once Upon a Time in America", and Italy has "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily". For this statement, I cannot agree with it in essence, it has nothing to do with comprehension ability, but the obstacle of "gender difference" is too big.
Can't understand the agitation of a group of boys when they see Malena's so-called "perfect ass", or the satisfaction of teasing the nearly deaf professor with bad words (mostly to Malena) Feeling. If all this is attributed to youth, it should not be an exaggeration.
There are two main lines in the whole movie. One is that Malena's husband went to war in the army, and then the news of his death came back, and Malena fell into a prostitute in order to make a living. After the war her husband came back alive to find her. This line seems to be a bit like the classic love movie "Blue Bridge". The other main line is based on the adolescent experience of the little boy Reynardo. On the surface, the two lines don’t seem to have much relationship, but since Malena became the object of Renardo’s adolescent sexual fantasy, the two lines are subtly intertwined and combined into a movie.
In the film, Malena often wears a close-fitting fashion and passes gracefully through the square, attracting the inquiring eyes of countless men and the jealous eyes of countless women. Deep among these traditional bleak citizens, Malena is like a flower butterfly, beautiful, aloof and eye-catching. Malena shows all Sicilian the true desire to make all men want her and all women to want to destroy her. She is in stark contrast to the world of Sicily, especially the women, who are jealous of her beauty but cannot destroy it, so they use the most vicious words to slander Malena to relieve their hatred. But this kind of behavior of them highlights Malena's difference even more. She is silent, even silent. This silence makes her beauty more mysterious and alluring.
When the Allies landed, the women of Sicily finally rushed forward and began to destroy the mad Malena who made them jealous, ripping off her lustrous clothes, cutting off her long silky hair, in front of all the men's In front of them, they are humiliating the only beauty in this square with majesty, and they want to completely smash the desires of all men! But why did the landing of the Allied forces make the women whose eyes were already breathing in full action, to pounce on Malena? That's because women, by virtue of their grievances against Malena, have framed their "degenerate" behavior as a nationalist affair. Under such "justifiable" reasons, all the men in Sicily who had been intimate with Malena many times in their hearts only dared to stand and watch from a distance without saying a word. They know that when they stand up against the women's actions, they hurt the sentiment of the whole nation. Therefore, they chose to escape in front of such a group of crazy women holding high the flag.
In contrast, compared with this group of crazy women and timid men, Reynardo in adolescence seems to be just a spice in the film, used to highlight Malena's unconventional beauty, and also used to set off The cowardice and ruthlessness of the adult world.
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