The poster/short comment/translation is misleading. The postman is a very heavy and broad metaphor.

Dasia 2022-04-20 09:02:10

The point isn't love, right? Looking at the colorful posters, I was almost misled by scanning the short reviews. What is the inexplicable translation of "previously publicized courtship incident"...

Clumsy friendships and love in the first half are hard, and newspapers and letters are even harder in the second. The saddest thing is that no one did anything wrong. The audience couldn't even get angry while soaking in the bright waves and sea breeze of the Italian island.

This film is poetry, metaphor

Light green cliffs, bushes

hillside with pink and yellow flowers blooming

sea ​​water, white coast

The mouth of a plum, the flesh of a white hill, the eyes of a butterfly, the beauty of Beatrice

poverty, disease, suffering, death knell

Catholics, Communism, Class Differences

And helpless and unmeasurable generosity

They were all scooped up from the vast ocean with a single fishing net, tangled together wetly, and dried in the sun of whatever party or ideology.

Massimo's performance well portrays the simple and timid, even dull and ridiculous, and simple sadness of a small character.

The comedian, who had no other outstanding work, stubbornly postponed heart surgery to perform, and died of a heart attack 12 hours later. It seems to be a metaphor for each other - and Mario finally uses his life to practice a beautiful life.

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Extended Reading

The Postman quotes

  • Mario Ruoppolo: So what if we break our chains? What do we do then?

  • Mario Ruoppolo: If you make this much of a fuss about one poem, you're never going to win that Nobel Prize.