This is a story of emotional tragedy repeated in life. The innocent and simple prostitute Kabylia fell into emotional despair after being deceived by a man. Later, she met Oliver, who was devoted and upright, by coincidence. So under Oliver's unremitting pursuit, she rekindled her emotions and yearned for beauty. But when she finally sold her property and truly dedicated herself to Oliver, she was ruthlessly abandoned by the other party and returned to the origin of being alone and having nothing.
From the surface of life, wonderful emotions always suffer from harsh reality; from the nature of emotions, endless fantasy creates the bitter fruit of spiritual suffering. Kabylia cannot live without a dream, but living in a dream means the loss of waking up.
At the beginning of the movie, Kabylia's love is dead, and she burns all of George's belongings to make life start from scratch. At this point, she forgets about the ruthless man and swears that she doesn't need illusory love. Her own hut, sufficient necessities, and savings to secure her old age are enough to make her live comfortably from now on. However, this firm understanding gradually disintegrated in the following events.
First, she meets the charismatic actor, but the reconciliation and sweet talk of the actor and his girlfriend makes Kabylia in the cubicle feel lonely. Then, she met a philanthropist and began to believe in the kindness in the heart of human beings, and she longed for the angels in the world. Then, at the assembly in the Shrine of Our Lady, Kabylia prayed to Our Lady, eager to change her situation and live a sincere and happy life. So after she met Oliver, although she was wary and cautious, her vigilance faded a little in the day-to-day acquaintances and the hints given by her life. When Lu Yu's priest persuaded her to get married and have children, she seemed to have grasped the life-changing belief in life-saving, and instantly affirmed all her love for Oliver in her heart.
The story of finding true love again and changing a hard life is a beautiful, complete, joyful and reassuring story, but Fellini went on to say that all comfort is illusory. The sunshine of Rome is golden in the eyes of lovers, and it burns deep scars on the backs of the poor. The words weaved by man, the cities built, the shapes taken care of, and the stories designed are all hypnotic dreams, and one day, when the decoration of the dream is exposed, revealing the ugliness that we have hidden, it is finally immersed in warm water for a long time. The mind cannot bear it.
At the beginning of a new life, Kabylia threw out everything she had, she held all her savings and revealed her inner pain. In Oliver's eyes, at this time Kabylia changed from a child picking flowers on the stage, a shy girl dreaming of her lover, to a pitiful vulgar prostitute, so he unconsciously looked sideways, and the fearless self he imagined was also start to shrink. What Oliver experienced was the loss of Kabylia's pure and thorough soul, and what Kabylia experienced was the collapse of the image of Oliver's angel and saint. In the reality full of leeway, people will only like the beautiful and pure side, and resist the ugly and unclean elements, but the truth is that good and evil are separated, and people are not whole.
On the edge of the last cliff, the setting sun sank into the back of the western mountain with emotion, the waves slapped the reefs in memory and whimpered in the night. Kabylia curled up into still pain, not knowing whether it existed or nothing, the dead leaves stuck between her back and her hair sucked her warmth, not knowing whether it was cold or warm... When she got up and walked into the roar of music , while crossing the road, the tearful face smiled. Between tears and laughter, human nature is lingering, Kabylia looks at the silent road ahead, the vastness seems clear.
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