This is the final installment of the Tornadore trilogy. After watching these films, I found that Tonadore never deliberately showed off his skills, but integrated his solid audio-visual language into a legendary story, allowing these techniques to appear naturally in the story, making his own Legendary stories have a certain degree of realism, so that the stories have symbolic meanings without being divorced from reality.
The time span of the story is not short, and it was a turbulent era, and the social environment changed very quickly. Tonadore shortened the story to 108 minutes, which is very compact and does not drag on at all.
The film tells the tragic life and experience of the most beautiful woman in the town, Marlene, through the perspective of a young Renardo. Marlene in the film lives under people's attention, prying eyes, and violations from beginning to end. She is pushed away, always submissive, unable and powerless to resist. And the reason for this suffering is her beauty, a beauty that can arouse the animalistic desires of all men, a beauty that can arouse the envy of all women, beauty is the original sin.
The so-called tragedy is to tear up the beautiful things for the audience to see. Tonadore used a lot of subjective lenses, allowing the audience to spy on Malena's life, enhancing the sense of substitution, watching her fall step by step, tearing up beautiful things.
Beauty is the original sin, because human nature has always been sinister, and Marlene is like a mirror, reflecting the sinister heart of the whole town, all men want to fall in love with her, all women slander her with evil words, except for Renado, although he There are irrepressible male hormones in youth, but this sexual fantasy is not dirty, it is not pure sexual desire, but also has a sense of holiness, a desire for protection, a kind of love. The emotion is complex. So many years later, Leonardo plucked up the courage to say the first words to Madame Marina for so many years: "Good luck, Madame Marina."
For Tonadore, Malena is Italy, a lover who will never be forgotten at first sight. And Renardo is the director himself, the only person in the town who deeply loves her. As Renardo said at the end: "As time goes by, I have fallen in love with many women, and when they hug me tightly, they will always ask me if they will remember them, and I will always say, yes, I will. I remember you, but the only thing I never forget is someone who never asked me, Malena."
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