"Love in Rome": False Love and the Great Eternal Rome

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Woody Allen is really unwilling to be lonely. He has been in the excitement of creation without showing any signs of fatigue. It is not so much that "Midnight in Paris", "Midnight in Barcelona" and "Love in Rome" are elegy dedicated to famous European cities. Rather, it is the old man's scrutiny of Western civilization and the ridicule of the middle class. The great city of Rome is full of nobility, arrogance and self-esteem. The "City of Beauty" by Italian Sorrentino is the best hymn dedicated to Rome. This eternal city is brilliant and wonderful. Absolutely, everyone has a Rome in their hearts, a Roman hymn of their own. The glorious civilization has left innumerable architectural wonders. Proud Rome has exhibited the ruins of the amphitheatre, ancient baths, arena, Roman waterways and other ruins to the world. This is a symbol of their identity and history. The ruins have been gazing at the great city as the mirror image of Rome, from which the Romans identified themselves and established their identity. The picture presented by a few clues is rather an exploration of the possibilities and limits of human emotions, whether love is false or real, can love withstand temptation and tests, is youth without confusion and squandering in vain, and intellectual babble is probably not just The self-deprecation of an old man is as simple as that. Reservation eventually disintegrates in the face of temptation. Vanity and vanity overcome rationality and self-esteem. Celebrities who remove their masks and identity symbols will become ridiculous clowns.

Several witty and humorous sketches are constructed into a four-part comedy: Architect Eisenberg is a young architect with ideals and feelings. He has careful engineering thinking and rational restraint, and has a kind and considerate College student girlfriend, such a stable and unchanging peaceful life was broken by the arrival of his girlfriend and best friend. Ellen Page is a third- and fourth-rate actress, with a restless, change-seeking soul beneath her sweet, innocent outside, she is good at playing the role of emotional victim and indulging in this performative personality state , ignorant but likes to fiddle with concepts. These are all impacting the young architect's heart and his self-confident rationality and will, and finally sublimated into a "wonderful" romance on a stormy night. Just when the emotions of the two people were rapidly heating up, and at the moment when Jack defeated his reason and decided to betray his girlfriend, the plot was reversed. The unprecedented impulse brought about by the soul fit came to an abrupt end in front of a phone call. It turned out that everything was a trick of the romantic Monica. Her natural possessiveness made it easy to seduce her best friend and girlfriend, and she found various reasons for it. Moral defense of own frivolity and betrayal. A call from Hollywood on the other side of the ocean instantly knocked it back to its original shape. The lost Jack was rescued at the point where he was about to tell his girlfriend. He returned to the origin with loneliness and pain. The successful architect John is the mirror image of Jack, and Jack is the young version of John. John sees his youth in Jack. The dialogue between the two is actually the self-talk between me and the other.

The real protagonists of the second story are the retired opera director Giancarlo and Woody Allen, who are future in-laws. Hai Li met the handsome lawyer Michelangelo in the square. The two quickly fell in love and talked about getting married. Hai Li's parents flew from the United States to meet their future in-laws. As an out-of-date opera director, Jerry always had the face of an intellectual, cowardly, proud, sensitive and stupid. He accidentally discovered that Giancarlo likes opera and has a broad and beautiful voice, so out of professional instinct, he wants to dig out the other side and also start the second spring of his own career, because stopping work means death and aging for him. The paradox is that Giancarlo can only open his voice when he is in the shower, so old man Woody designed a creative shower version of the opera "Harlequin". The mortuary, who faced death in the town day, finally broke through the barriers, showed his style on the big stage of the opera house, and became a real singer. Of course, the premise is that he must enjoy a shower before singing. Everyone has their own inner demons, and overcoming them is tantamount to reinventing themselves. Giancarlo chose to return to peace after realizing his lifelong wish and continue to do the work of the mortuary that he is better at. While brave and self-deprecating, the little old man Woody did not forget to ridicule the inner weakness and self-esteem of intellectuals. When he lost his job, he also lost the stage and the right to speak. He became a shriveled, pitiful, unpopular little old man.

The clerk played by Roberto Benigni is a dull, uninteresting man who, thanks to the media hype, has become the hottest topic of conversation overnight, with no second chance at all. As a celebrity, he enjoys material abundance, accepts the pursuit of the rabble, and laughs at the love of beautiful secretaries, actors, and supermodels, because "power is the best aphrodisiac" and "as a wife, you should share such an outstanding person with others". Isn't it the essence of the media age, the media and the Internet are constantly producing and creating topics and celebrities, consuming events, consuming celebrities, consuming privacy, and consuming everything. We are living in a bottomless consumer society, seduced by concepts and drawn by fashion. , covered by symbols, all of which we do willingly and with satisfaction, to be the slaves of a happy consumer society, and to become the false masters of the media age. As if he had gone back to square one overnight, the boring Pisanello had lost all his halo and became a stranger, no one was chasing him on the street, he was dead as a fashion code and symbol, a new some one born. This loss stimulated him and caused him to fall into a short-lived frenzied performance, and then regained his peace after losing the attention of the other. Life is so absurd and boring. . .

From the countryside, Antonio and Millie want to gain recognition in their family in Rome, and things go far beyond their imaginations, with a series of absurdities leading each to the cross paths of a secret garden. Millie got into trouble in the huge Rome. She lost her mobile phone and fell into complete helplessness after getting lost, so she met the film crew and the legendary movie star. The legendary potbellied and bald, but in the eyes of fans Millie He is the most sexy and charming man. The legend seduces Millie about to succeed. The thief who robs the house disrupts the rhythm. It coincides with the arrival of the actor's wife. The robber designs to settle the storm. Millie, who had gone to bed and had never been close to the robber, fell into the arms of the thief in a chaotic manner. The chaste, traditional village teacher is thus seduced because her inner demons are released. The country boy Antonio is honest, and while waiting for his relatives and fiancée, he welcomes the beautiful intruder Anna, and Penelope Cruz is full of hot and unrestrained Latin girls. In misunderstandings and coincidences, she plays the role The boy's fiancee. The banquet was filled with celebrities and prominent figures in the city. Interestingly, most of them were also Anna's customers. This flirtatious and sexy Anna is the mirror image of celebrities, reflecting their true colors. The so-called nobility is hypocrisy and cover-up above desire. Amidst the blooming flowers in the courtyard, Anna led Antonio into a mysterious realm. When the banquet is over, everything goes back to where it started, and Antonio and Millie start their futures with their own thoughts. . . what is the nature of love

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  • Jerry: Jesus. The kid's a Communist, the father's a mortician. Does the mother run a leper colony?

  • Giancarlo: Someone dead?

    Jerry: No, but it's early.