"A Splendid Life" uses the historical events that have occurred in Italy over the past 40 years as a backdrop, depicting the birth, aging, illness and death of a family for decades. Even mentioning North Korea's 66 World Cup victory over Italy in England and Italy's '82 World Cup win in Spain, the protagonist is a maverick football blind, implying that all the big things take a back seat, just to fill the whole story with A sense of historical depth. In this way, history, which takes major events as memory points, wraps people around and moves forward. The human body and mind both continue and develop in a metabolic way. Of course there is pain and struggle, there is loss and there is perseverance. The behavior of Nikolai and Mario in college to save Zoe is full of idealism, and they never thought that it would end in the way of Zoe protecting them. Nikolai finally completed the fight against Zoe after decades of hard work. Jane's redemption cannot but say that he is a true idealist practitioner. But he can't stop the depression of the two most loved people around him: Julia following an illusory ideal, and Mario struggling with his own mental predicament. When they left him without hesitation, the mental interruption with their loved ones was indescribable pain. Wasn't the younger daughter's criticism of her mother's behavior just like Julia was? It was only after she became pregnant that she experienced family affection, re-accepted her mother, and also influenced Julia.
When the tide of history recedes from the beach after surging, all that remains are the rocks we call "family, blood, and affection" that have been there for thousands of years.
"What has been will be done again; what has been done will be done again. There is nothing new under the sun." - Ecclesiastes (1:9)
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