Sensitive audiences can skip the exciting circus, but still have to walk the road of life
First of all, I must say that Julietta is really an excellent actress. In "Liar", she is the wife who trusts and loves her husband who is a liar. In "Nights of Cabiria", she is a blind fantasy. A prostitute who is constantly abandoned and deceived in love, but is a simple and happy busker in "The Road". She's able to fit herself into so many characters with very different personalities without making the audience feel out of place at all.
Why didn't Jesomina leave Zambano?
I don't agree with the Stockholm Syndrome claim, and I don't fully agree that it's a "fool" to keep Jessomina in business with Zambano. At the beginning of the story, Jessomena was sold to Zambano by his mother at a modest price. For Zambano, Jessomena was bought with money and not too smart , can make up something to be his assistant, so he can use wicker sticks to smoke Jessomina's calf without any scruples, and flirt with other women in front of Jessomina. In his mind, Jesomina is not a "person" that needs to be treated with care, but a "tool" that is called upon. Did Jesomina identify with this attribute in the beginning? I don't think so, that's why she escaped. However, when Zambano finds her and punishes her, the imbalance of power reinforces Jessomina's fear of Zambano, and she begins to identify herself with the attribute of Zambano's "appendage", or that she has since At that time, she began to think that her "destiny" was to follow Zambano for the rest of her life.
But when the fool told her that night about equality and the meaning of existence, Jessomina elevated herself to what she meant to Zambano and Zambano to him: not only Zambano to her, she to Zambano It is also irreplaceable. It is no longer a person and an object, but a mutual need between two people with the same personality. But Zambano didn't realize it at this point, and maybe he never will. This cognitive difference was clearly shown on the night at the monastery, so there was the scene of crying, laughing and waving.
Did Zambano, who was weeping by the sea, realize how precious Jessomina was, he was just an ordinary poor man, he didn't realize that he had lost the angel.
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