There are very few leopards. Most of the world is a coyote and a jackal. The leopard is a small minority of big animals, and its beauty is a bit desolate. This seems to be an elegy of the old times, but the wonderful thing is that it is not a work that glorifies the layers of the old times.
The soft-left stance of the film is expressed through Prince Salina: I support the new force of historical change in my heart, but I cannot invest in it to add fuel to it, because I still belong to that old class, although I despise it at all Dead circle. The nobility implied here is: I am not a speculator.
It reminds me a little of Robert E. Lee, who, despite his political stance against slavery, entered the war as a Southern soldier. In today's world, conservatives are stigmatized because there are no more noble conservatives. Today's conservatives are poor quality and ugly.
Most people don't really have a position. Seek some benefits, or at least keep the world safe. They join the Red Shirts today, and they may be easier to withdraw tomorrow, changing into the uniforms of the Royal Army, and salvaging the small fish and shrimps that floated up in the tide of the times. For example, the beautiful father, who has the shrewdness of all the nouveau riche, and the stupidity that accompanies it; and the nephew of Prince Salina, the former misunderstood the latter's "ambitiousness", and he was ultimately disappointed in him.
The temperament of the film is timeless and sad. Most of the films we used to describe the life of European aristocrats are dreamy and luxurious. Although the brushstrokes here are not exaggerated, they are impressive because of their realism: the formal costumes in the past when the heat was so hot, the noble women who were as noisy as big water ducks They, feasting like a loud dining hall, leaving a room full of spectacular drowning buckets after weary and tireless dancing all night... have the deepest boring experience of this kind of life.
Italian cinema of the last century is so rich, with different styles and positions, but there are terrifyingly high-quality masterpieces.
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