Frances, a professor woman writer who can bake delicious brownies at home in a thong, men all over the world say how nice it would be if she were my wife. She told her students, "If you have a bad idea, you want to fuck children who are scapegoated. If you give the right encouragement, they will grow into geniuses." in fantasy.
The slightly funny piano sound turned into a noisy car rain siren in an instant, and the warm-colored book launch site also turned into a gray steel and concrete building. The absurdity happened at this moment. Her husband had an affair and wanted to divorce her at the same time. Asking for alimony, the new love likes their house because she is pregnant and the house is close to the school. Accompanied by the lawyer's deep voice saying "You can definitely get through it", only Frances' eyes that were holding back tears could be seen in the camera. In Nuoda's house, she only took three boxes of books and a blue vase with her. A person came to a "divorce concentration camp" - a short-term rental apartment. There are lawyers who can't stop crying every day, and who haven't won a divorce lawsuit for themselves in three years; there are doctors who prescribe sleeping pills for others every day. Her friend Petti, a pregnant lesbian, offered her a ten-day trip to Tuscany, but she refused. Petti said I think you're in danger, in danger of falling apart, like those people with a body. At the crossroads of life, don't be a coward. The most interesting thing about fate is that she will always help you make a choice when you are tangled, this is the first time. When Frances returned to the short-term rental apartment, the owner of the apartment was selling his house at the door "Are you divorced? Although it is a short-term rental, many people will live for the rest of their lives. We have lawyers, doctors, and writers who can write suicide wills. "...", the lawyer next door was still crying, and Frances was surprised to find that she almost joined the Loser. "Petti, when do I go to Tuscany?" The light music sounded again.
Sunflowers are the hallmark of the gay tour guide, who, under the grey rainy sky of Florence, held bright red umbrellas in their hands, as if heralding the woman's imminent departure from the haze of divorce. When the happy music sounded again, the large sunflowers filled the picture. This time the sunflowers were no longer the sunflowers under the indoor lights, nor the plastic sunflowers in the hands of the tour guide, but the large sunflowers that were illuminated by the sun. "Tuscany under the sun" also slowly unfolded before our eyes.
Purple grapes, green olives, red peppers, everyone had a sunny smile on their faces. Another important protagonist in a story also appears, a woman who wears a black vintage tunic and a wide-brimmed hat every day. Bright red lips, enjoying the fledgling feathers kissing her skin, sucking ice cream like a child. As soon as she appears, you can guess that she must be a storyteller, and her sensuality and innocence are hidden in her black dress. I even thought she was a virtual existence at first. She always appears when Frances encounters a choice, saying something that doesn't hurt or itches, but it's the essence of the whole film. For example, the most important in the movie, Bramasole, Longing for the Sun, the 300-year-old villa. The woman's line, "Isn't a bad idea exactly what you want," is exactly what Frances said to the students at the beginning of the film. So it started when Frances pushed open the iron door full of oil-green creepers, and when the bird urinated on her face, the Countess said it was divine, so Frances spent all the money to buy it. A dilapidated old villa, a new life is also unfolding in Tuscany under the sun.
When Frances walked into the dilapidated house, his arm was bruised by a faucet that appeared inexplicably on the wall. On the first night of the first day, a storm came and life began to stumble. The first thing in life was a construction team consisting of three Polish laborers led by a dull Italian who could only say "ok, yes". One is Pawel, a young man who falls in love with Chiara, the Italian girl next door; the other is a literature professor who came to work as an electrician and does not like to talk to others; the other is a trembling old man, but when he sees Frances, he is always nervous and restrained, like A boy in love. They worked hard to decorate the house every day, but they made mistakes again and again. The main wall collapsed, the toilet was boiling hot water, the house would fall ashes at any time, and the chandeliers would flash from time to time. Frances chose them because the agent said that if the laborer didn't do well, his mother would break his neck.
Every day, an old grandpa passes by downstairs. He takes the trouble to change flowers for a torii every day and never greets anyone. Next door lives a sentimental grandma. She is Chiara's grandma. She will be for an online lover who ignores her Cry at any time, babbling "Although people are old, their hearts will still hurt." And Katherine, the woman in black, who said that ice cream changed her life because she met Federico Fellini, the IL Maestro of her life. She always said "Fefe said", Fefe said "she is his dream lover", Fefe said "People want to live a wonderful life, have the courage to try in all fields, always maintain a childlike enthusiasm, and everything will get what you want", Fefe said "regrets are just a waste of time, they are the shadows of the past, killing your present time". So she would play Sylvia from Dolce Vita in the fountain after her "Zeus" left, until someone walked into the fountain and took her by the hand and came out. I'd love to say a few more words about Katherine, my favorite character on the show. She can always see through the most real thoughts in Frances' heart, even if sometimes Frances can't see it herself. When Frances sees a young art student painting a nude portrait of Katherine and walks away like she sees something she shouldn't see, Katherine says you're bored. Yes, I think Americans are now more conservative and boring than Italians. When Frances was disappointed after seeing Pawel and Chiara's sweet love, Katherine said that you are now like a big black hole full of resentment, with unhappy written all over your face. Katherine tells a story from her childhood when she spent hours looking for ladybugs, gave up, and slept on the grass, only to wake up full of ladybugs. Compared with Frances, Katherine has more interest in life, enjoys the moment, doesn't regret or struggle, doesn't care about other people's eyes, and always has the childlike enthusiasm that Fefe told her in her heart. I even think that Americans don't understand romance, they're just crazy, like Frances was crazy after the first date. But Europeans know how to live and taste the deliciousness that life brings. Katherine said that she liked "Night of Gabriel" the most, because at the end of the film, the heroine, who was abandoned by the merciless hurt again and again, saw the child laughing and playing, and unknowingly laughed again. This should be their romance.
There are four men in the movie, which is what makes this movie unique. The first was an Italian man who embarrassed Frances. He flirts with her, but his wife suddenly appears, and a one-minute love affair ends abruptly. The second man, Mr Martini, a real estate agent, was polite and thoughtful. I always believed that there was a tinge of affection between them, but in the end nothing happened. Maybe it was because Martini was loyal to his family, maybe it was because they were meant to be just close friends. When a snake entered her house, Martini covered him with a blanket, and when she desperately said that I was tossing around here alone, if I cook in the future, I will never have a partner, and I will always live alone in Nuoda's house. What to do, Martini told her the story of the train. Austria and Italy have a section of the Alps, steep and dangerous, but they built the railways when there were no trains, because they believed that one day there would be, and we will always be full of desire for life. Frances said I wanted a wedding in my house, I wanted a home here, and Martini said it would come true. Like a father, Mr. Martini always told Frances that there is always a desire for life and that dreams will come true one day. A third man, Marcello, met on the street and drove him three hours from the streets of Rome to the sea. In my opinion, this should be a typical Italian man, he said the most classic love words "I would like to swim in your eyes"; he has the most casual way of life "green light, yellow light is decoration, and red The lamp is just a suggestion"; he lived the most free life "if you encounter a beautiful person and thing, you should hold the moment when you know to let go". So, they had a love of fish and water, kissing from the high sun to the passing of meteors on the beach. However, fate is always wonderful, when they agreed to meet for the second time, Patti just broke up and found Frances with a big belly, the first time missed; Marcello wrote that I saw you in a dream come to me in a white dress , drove a sports car to her house, Frances mobile phone was not in the service area, missed the second time. When Frances received the three boxes of books that she had sent, she felt that she could not miss it again, so she found Marcello in a white dress, but saw his wife. Marcello said that I have thought about our future, but we have all worked hard. It is true that there are always a lot of things that we have to do in life, but this is the arrangement of fate, and everything has to go with the flow. When saying goodbye, Marcello says you will definitely find that person. their fleeting passion love, like the turquoise limoncello they drink. I remember the only time I drank this lemonade in Italy because of its beautiful color, but I didn't expect it to be sweet and spicy in my mouth, with a hint of sourness and strong wine aftertaste. It looks beautiful and feels strong to drink, but it's just a beautiful attempt, but you'll never regret drinking it. The fourth, who appears at the end of the film, picks up the ladybug for her, says Frances' bad review of his first book helped him write the second. As Katherine said, if you are passionate and don't look for it deliberately, the ladybugs of life will always crawl all over you.
This is one of the most surprising parts of the film, maybe because I have been brainwashed into too many romance films to form a fixed mindset, so when I saw Frances divorce, I thought it must be a movie. The story of a divorced woman who ends up falling in love with a man through chance and again in beautiful Tuscany. So when the first married flirt guy showed up, I thought that was it, but the actor only showed up for two minutes, and I thought it was again by Mr. Martini, but I was wrong again. The heroine's true love is only the last five minutes of the film. The director talks about love in a very unusual way. There is no need to talk about how to fall in love, how to get along, how to end, this is everyone's story, not a movie model. What the movie needs to do is that Frances finds true love again and again, and the sweet love part is given to the love of two young people, Pawel and Chiara, whose love also inspires Frances, an "adult". Although they fell in love at first sight, although Pawel was a Polish immigrant, Chiara's parents disagreed, although they even had problems communicating; but Pawel worked hard to learn Italian, and Pawel went to learn to throw flags to prove that he was like an Italian man. Chiara said I would die without Pawel, the first time such a dramatic, unworldly oath made people feel less funny, but more respectful. When I was young, people were always stubborn, but they were always the most sincere. When Chiara's father objected again, saying that Pawel has nothing and there is no true love in the world, grandma said again "I have experienced, I have experienced true love, your father gave me the best love". The simplicity of the elderly and children often gives the best education to real-world adults.
Ladybugs in life, not just love. In the end, a wedding was held at Frances' home, because Patti's child also had a home, and her cooking skills were tasted by the construction team and neighbors early. In fact, what you hope for in life has always been there, but you will always be narrow-minded. The wedding is not necessarily yours, and the family is not a family of three in a narrow sense. It is not only your husband who tastes your cooking skills. There are thousands of kinds of love in life, not just love. Just like when the house was completed, the disgraced construction team put on a straight suit, hugged and said goodbye to Frances one by one, and their smiles were frozen in one photo, which was the most moving part of the whole movie. After getting along for a long time, a dilapidated house turned into a cozy little villa. When she heard that it was completed, Frances even had a look of daze and loss on her face. The construction team was already a member of her family. "Polonia" is a testimony to their affection. And the old man who changed flowers day after day, finally greeted Frances with a smile, just as she said it takes time to get acquainted with people.
What touched me was the Virgin Mary, who appeared many times in the play. Originally, I never understood the religion of Europeans, but I lived in Europe for half a year, and I saw in the film that the Virgin Mary will always be with you. With a kind and peaceful expression, like a mother, it reassures people that no matter what happens, everything is not as good as it was before. Their belief should be this kind of peace and beauty. Just like being born in Italian means "bringing to the light", everyone who comes to this world, good or bad, comes to feel the light, and should be more enthusiastic.
In the final scene of the film, the train passes by the Alps, and the sun shines on the sunflowers on Frances' table, like an oil painting. The sunflower postcard that she wrote when she first arrived in Tuscany was full of gorgeous rhetoric but no emotion. "The air is purple, and the church bells are ding ding dong, not ding dong." It was also warmed by the sun. , became this warm "Tuscany in the Sun".
In addition, about the creation of the film, the color change of the film, the coordination of the music, the sunflowers throughout, and the tribute to the master Fellini, it is like a good cup of tea, not stiff or exciting, but the soaking will bring you again and again. Different flavors, and the feeling of the film is more mellow. "Children's enthusiasm" and "life's ladybug" tell us time and time again to live with the flow and always have hope. This is why I revisit this movie over and over again. Every time I see it, no matter how gloomy the mood is, it will instantly become happy like being irradiated by the Tuscan sunshine, and I will also remember the time when I was in Tuscany. On the days of leisurely walks on the Scanner Hills, I miss the indifferent state of mind that I have never experienced in Beijing.
"Home takes care of those who have dreams, and good things will always come from the sky. Even in the second half of life, this is an unexpected joy." The faucet in the old house that never ran out of water finally flowed out clear water, soaking Frances feet.
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