We can all pretend to be cynical or scheming. But when we face the pure and innocent things, the mask of hypocrisy will fall off, and something beautiful will appear in our hearts. Today, I would like to share with you a black and white film from 1957. The film tells the story of the heroine's rough love experience, the story of her love again and again but being abandoned again and again. She is pure, kind, brave and straightforward. You will love this girl very much. She has suffered so many fatal abandonments and murders. She still believes in love and is still brave enough to love everyone. Today's recommendation for everyone is "Nights of Cabiria" directed by Federico Fellini!
Nights at Cabiria is an important early work of Fellini and represents the crowning achievement of his early cinema. Released in 1957, the film won the Best Foreign Language Film at the 30th Academy Awards and was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 10th Cannes Film Festival. Giulietta Masina won the best actress at the 10th Cannes Film Festival for her outstanding performance. She is Fellini's lifelong wife. She has starred in many Fellini films and has created many unbelievable Forgotten role. In "I Am a Liar: Fellini's Notes", Fellini wrote that I have long wanted to make a film for Juliet, and I think she is a person who is particularly suitable for directly conveying the consternation and surprise of the Joker. An actor who is bizarre, ecstatic and ridiculous. That's right, Juliet is an actress, a clown, a real clown! This interpretation, which I am so proud of, has caused some actors to resent it as negatively disrespectful and rude. They are wrong! The clowning talent of an actor is what I think is the most precious talent, the aristocratic standard of stage art.
This film, together with "The Great Road" in 1954 and "Liar" in 1955, is collectively known as the loneliness trilogy. Director Fellini has shot more than 20 great films, such as Continent, Nights of Cabiria, Dolce Vita , Eight and a half, Roman style paintings and Armacod, etc., his films have won various film festival awards for many times, and won five Oscar gold awards. In 1993, Fellini was awarded the 65th Academy Award for life. Achievement Award!
At the beginning of the film, with the sound of footsteps, we saw Kabylia and her boyfriend running from a distance, and the two hugged from time to time. Kabylia looked like a girl's first love, running by the river and playing with her with great interest. She was holding the small bag in her hand, and suddenly her boyfriend snatched the bag from her hand and quickly pushed her into the river. uh uh, uh, let's go! Come, you are here. In this beauty, Kabylia cried out for help, but her boyfriend ran away without even looking back. Kabylia continued to cry for help, which caught the attention of the nearby villagers and rescued her!
She wakes up and goes around looking for her boyfriend. The villagers said that he was alone just now! Look at this big-eyed girl, although she clearly knew what happened just now, she still didn't believe her boyfriend would kill him. She returned to the house she was proud of, wet, and her friend asked what happened, and she even shielded her. She told her boyfriend that she accidentally fell into the water. The boyfriend was afraid, so he ran away. This is her dignity and face, and it is also her kindness and softness in her heart. As Kabylia quarreled with friends, we learned that Kabylia and this boyfriend named George had known each other for less than a month, and they fell in love without knowing the details of each other. Kabylia asked a friend if anyone would push you into the river for money now! Do you think this woman in a one-sided love is too stupid and naive? Friends say he is a fool. After several ideological struggles, Kabylia finally threw the expensive clothes she bought for George and his photos into the fire with tears. The stubbornness on her face instantly collapsed, aggrieved and helpless.
As night fell, Kabylia came to the street. It turned out that she was a prostitute standing on the street, but when others were trying to attract business, Kabylia danced happily. The dance is shown in many places in this film. Every time it is the most painful and helpless time in Kabylia’s heart, she dances with the music, as if she will escape the cruelty of reality by dancing. When someone mentioned George, she was quickly pulled back to reality and fought!
I have always felt that Kabylia's character is painful from beginning to end, all bad things, none of which is happy, but she has the ability to heal herself, she can quickly switch to the happy channel, and curse for a while After a while of laughing, you might think this girl is really crazy and heartless. But this is Kabylia's self-redemption. She is like a small grass with tenacity and self-improvement, which can be reborn every time with the spring breeze.
Immediately afterwards, Kabylia encountered a big star and his girlfriend quarreling while walking on the street. The two broke up. The big star saw Kabylia take her to a nightclub to dance. Here Kaby Leah can still dance with self-absorbance, and although it is out of tune with the surroundings, it highlights her straightforwardness and cuteness. The big star took Kabylia home. Kabylia secretly looked at the mansion, food, wine, and the housekeeper who had never seen her before, and the housekeeper nodded respectfully to her. Carmelia smiled shyly, she said proudly. From the house he owns, her house is his pride, and others sleep in the bridge hole, but she lacks everything. When she was imagining how to show off to her friends tomorrow, the star's girlfriend came to the door, and Kabylia was rushed into the bathroom, she could only peek through the keyhole, while reconciling as ever, loving and loving, On the one hand, she was disillusioned and miserable, and there was only one dog with her. The bell rang in the morning, and Kabylia slept on the ground like this all night. Before she left the room, she looked back at the woman who was sleeping soundly on the bed at the moment, with envy in her eyes. Prosperity and wealth and the love of stars, one can only leave humblely with money.
Kabylia returned to the street again, and she didn't mind the ridicule of others! When someone asked her if she wanted to pray together, she said, what do I pray for, I have it all! Immediately afterwards, Kabylia was once again abandoned on the deserted road. She didn't know how long she had walked. She met a man who was giving food to the poor. Kabylia spoke for the first time in front of this man. Real name Maria. Maria and her friends came to the church and prayed to the Virgin to help her change her life and change her life, but she saw the suffering petitioners around her and realized that her life and the lives of her friends had not changed at all, she wanted to sell Drop the house and get out of here!
Maria came to a hypnosis show, she was invited to the stage, the truth, lies, consciousness and subconscious can no longer be hidden, she was exposed to the public, she said that she was very satisfied with her life and didn't need anything ! But after being hypnotized, she picked flowers and danced alone on the stage and asked her imagined male partner Oscar, do you love me? Please don't deceive me. At this moment, Maria lost the mask of hypocrisy, showing her child-like truth, goodness and beauty, pure and beautiful! Even the hypnotist couldn't bear to continue, and woke her up. However, Maria, who woke up in the public ridicule, felt overwhelmed and didn't know what was going on. A man came up to tell her that she was moved by her innocence and innocence. The man admired him, understood her and understood her. And it is fate that the two meet each other. Because the man's name happened to be Oscar, although Maria questioned the man's motives, she still came to the appointment at the time that the man agreed. Soon, under the man's constant gentle offensive, Maria fell in love again. This time the man said that he wanted to marry Maria and had already planned his life after marriage. Maria excitedly ran home to show off to her friends that she was getting married.
Maria sold the house, left the house reluctantly, and left her friends. She only brought two suitcases to the man. The two of them ate at the romantic seaside restaurant. Maria looked happy and took out the sale. The money from the house and all the savings, looking at the thick sum of money, Oscar silently looked at the sea. When Maria was looking forward to her future life, Oscar said that he would take her to the beach to watch the sunset, and Maria was excited to show her love to Oscar along the way. When they came to the deserted seaside, Maria laughed and laughed about her experience of being pushed into the river. Oscar asked Maria if you could swim? Maria said no. But when she turned around, she saw Oscar's nervous expression covered in sweat, she suddenly understood something, and immediately stepped back alertly and asked Oscar if he wanted to kill her too? When she realized that Oscar was for money, she desperately handed over all her property and fell to the ground. At this time, the sun was setting, and Maria kneeling there looked like a girl who was praying, but this time her prayer was still unanswered. Maria asked Oscar to kill her because she didn't know how to live. . Such an innocent Maria has been hurt again and again, can you imagine how she will live in the future? Oscar said he didn't want to hurt Maria, and he took the money and hurried away.
In the middle of the night, poor Maria woke up alone by the sea. She walked out of the woods in a daze, and there came a group of young people singing and dancing. Maria walked among them, like a lonely clown at the end. At the curtain call, some people applauded for her, some sang for her, and her tearful eyes gradually got a smile and vitality, and nodded to thank the people around her. The magic here is that the heroine also nods and smiles to the camera, and to the audience is still the Kabylia who is born with the spring breeze.
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