"Leopard" Italian Film Week Xiaoxi Tianzhongying Beijing

Adalberto 2022-04-19 09:02:37

Watched 187 minutes of Leopard yesterday. Thanks to Giuseppe Rotunno for giving back 187 minutes to the audience. Although I was very tired, I finally saw another movie that quenched my thirst.
I have long been accustomed to the obscure and esoteric name of the movie, and I am used to the thought process of trying to connect the name and the content. However, Prince Salina's almost self-talking dialogue makes the meaning of the title too direct, and I wasn't mentally prepared at all, really. He said, "We used to be lions and leopards, and we were replaced by jackals and earth dogs." - "Leopard"
may be everything for the final preparation, the plot in the movie is like this, our mental and physical strength Also like this. The emotions of the film grow in the blinding drum, and in the last hour, the epidermis is finally torn painfully, revealing the edge. Our mental and physical strength was exhausted and exhausted in the dark, and finally surging with the wonderful waltz in the last hour.
It was aristocratic life, and today, when we are used to luxury, it still stimulates our nerves. They, nobles, talked, danced, ate, laughed. I just want to be there: what are they talking about? Why do they dance ballroom dancing so fluently? How delicious are they eating? In addition to covering up their excessive drinking gaffe, how many times did their smiles come from the heart? We are not people of that era, we do not belong to that period of history, so we can only be spectators, we can only imagine.
The director has created a novel imagination space for us, thank you director! In fact, gorgeous, grand scenes and profound content are not at all opposites. Don't be disappointed with big-screen movies, as long as the content needs it to be big, it has to be big!
If at a big dance, you are lonely, at least you feel lonely, will you cover it up? Will you run away in a hurry? Or trying to keep yourself from being alone? Prince Salina is admirable: he shuttles through the lively crowd, or holds his nephew's girlfriend dancing in front of everyone, he weeps in the mirror in an empty room, he listens to the show with a little food The general uttered nonsense. He exists in the dance, outside the dance, but all his actions are shouting to the others: I am lonely! Really, I am lonely. But did anyone hear it? In troubled times, no one will feel that others are lonely, and shouting is useless. Lonely people are more pitiful than dead people. You can only hide your loneliness and give other people an illusion like the truth. You are crazy, I am not alone.

And the dance was over, and it was already bright.

View more about The Leopard reviews

Extended Reading
  • Reyna 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    Gorgeous and boring, I have watched several Visconti films in a row.

  • Malvina 2022-03-23 09:02:49

    "They are people living in a dream, and they will hate everyone who wakes them up, even if you bring them the best gift in the world." Revolutionaries, speculators, powerful, middle-class, poor, in the era In the round dance, what turns boiled water into red wine is not love, but change.

The Leopard quotes

  • Prince Don Fabrizio Salina: We were the leopards, the lions, those who take our place will be jackals and sheep, and the whole lot of us - leopards, lions, jackals and sheep - will continue to think ourselves the salt of the earth.

  • Prince Don Fabrizio Salina: Sleep, my dear Chevalley, eternal sleep, that is what Sicilians want. And they will always resent anyone who tries to awaken them, even to bring them the most wonderful of gifts. And, between ourselves, I doubt very strongly whether this new Kingdom has very many gifts for us in its luggage. All Sicilian expression, even the most violent, is really a wish for death. Our sensuality, wish for oblivion. Our knifings and shootings, a hankering after extinction. Our laziness, our spiced and drugged sherbets, a desire for voluptuous immobility, that is... for death again.