The film describes the story that took place in the city of Borgo in the 1930s. In fact, Borgo is Fellini's hometown, Rimini. Fellini wanted to name the film "The Story of Borgo" at first, but thought it was a bit vulgar, and finally named it Amarcord in the dialect of Rimini, which means "My Memories".
Since the late 1950s, the tourism industry has been booming in Rimini, and it is now an important tourist city. Thanks to its good seaside, there are millions of tourists visiting here every summer, which greatly exceeds the population of the city. Due to economic development, the city government is striving for the country to break away from the former province of Forli and become a separate province. However, in the 1930s, this city was a relatively closed, backward, and poor city as depicted in the film. The local people were ignorant, poor, ignorant, and cowardly, fascist forces were rampant, and ordinary people suffered prolonged ravages. The city has been in a state of occlusion and backwardness for a long time.
The protagonist of the film is the young Tita. He is an ordinary young man with normal intelligence and is appreciated by the principal at school. However, he is also a young man who will never grow up and will always be in his youth. Why is this so? According to the description of the film, Tita’s school is a school of intensive learning. The teachers all feel that they are well-educated, and it is effortless for them to impart knowledge to the students. When they lecture, they follow the text and ignore everything else. They are eccentric and pedantic. Naughty students can be naughty in the classroom at will, escape the classroom, and even tease the teacher. Some teachers are short-tempered, can't behave in a good way with students, and will only be furious. Tita's school is such a school, of course, it is difficult to receive a good education.
Tita's family is also an abnormal family. His father was a small business owner and had a construction company. From what he said to the workers, "Only work can have everything", he can see that he started from scratch, and after personal struggle, he has this home. Industry. But he is a violent, ignorant and dull person. He and his wife can be upset about a small matter, or they can beat up their son indiscriminately. He doesn't care about politics, he only knows to make money, but politics still comes to him, and he suffers from it. However, in the face of the tyranny of fascism, he had no choice but to obey him, appearing cowardly and incompetent. Tita's mother is also a grumpy woman, so the family is noisy and restless all day long. Of course, after her husband was tortured by fascists, she also had a sense of consciousness. But there are still quarrels at home. Dita's grandfather is a fool, although he is a long way old, he is very naive. At the dinner table, the son and his daughter-in-law quarreled upside down. He turned a blind eye and was still making jokes about him. In the end, he was even robbed of him by his son. When picking up his mad son from the hospital for an outing, he praised this son for being the smartest. After the mad son poured urine into his leather shoes, he still believed that the mad son had recovered and returned to normal. When the mad son climbed up the tree and shouted for a woman, he didn’t know that he was anxious. Instead, he was telling others that his mad son was 42 years old, and he gestured for sexual intercourse, saying that he had already had that aspect when he was 42 years old. experience. He even couldn't find his home in the heavy fog.
Tita grew up in a family that was noisy all day long, made up of people with abnormal nerves, irritable temperaments, and ignorance. Such a person, such a family atmosphere, makes people feel depressed and unbearable. In this environment, it is naturally difficult for a person to grow up normally, or even unable to grow.
The social conditions of the city where Tita lives are also not conducive to his growth. This is a poor, closed city, social customs are quite backward, and even superstitious. The ceremony of leaving the old and welcoming the new at the beginning of the film gives the audience such an impression, which is the same as the situation in Rimini when the film was filmed. Compared.
In the 1970s, Rimini has become a summer holiday destination for the rich, and has become a wealthy and open city. People in Rimini can especially feel this obvious difference, which is not a good social environment for Dita. More understandable. It can also be seen in the film that the people here are quite ignorant. The lawyer described the long history of the ancient city, the praise of the city by famous Italian poets, and the many celebrities that have appeared in science and politics. However, this place is now very different from before. Now there are no celebrities, no glorious achievements worth extolling, only those pedantic pedagogy, those who ride motorcycles through the city without knowing their actions. It is for the young people, the young people who admire the buttocks of women riding bicycles, the young people who imagine the solemn ceremony of welcoming the fascist provincial party committee secretary as their own wedding, the arrogant and authoritarian, arbitrary arrests and tortures, and the rash of lives. Fascist gangsters are those cowardly and cowardly people who have resigned themselves to the tyranny of fascism...
The film focuses on Dita's grandfather, his crazy uncle, and Gladysca. It can be said that they are the representatives of the citizens of this blocked and backward city. The ignorance, foolishness, naiveness, and madness of grandpa and mad uncle can be seen at a glance, while the character of Gladiska is more complicated. She is young and beautiful, and many people like her, but she seems to have a higher pursuit and does not put young people in the eyes. However, the result she pursued is for the prince who came to this city temporarily to have fun. Later, she also felt that a woman can not meet all her needs just by having sex with a man, but also needs feelings. She couldn't help shed tears for everything in the past. In the end, she could only marry a military policeman. In Italy, the gendarmerie is not only not a respectable profession, but the object of ridicule, because they are generally simple-minded. At her wedding, the sound of the old blind man’s piano did not create an atmosphere of joy. The atmosphere when she reluctantly left her hometown was even more sad.
In these ignorant and backward cities in other provinces, Dita has to be affected and not immune to contamination. He also liked Gladiska and touched her thigh. He also admired the buttocks of a woman riding a bicycle like those idle young people. He even pursued the fat cigarette shop owner. When he came to the madhouse to pick up his crazy uncle for an outing, he wanted to drive a horse and cart. His father said to him: "I have never seen a mule drive a horse." In Italy, mules are synonymous with fools as much as donkeys. This means that even his father thought he was a fool. Finally, his mother died, and he closed the door and cried: he was still a child.
Fellini's description that Tita will never grow up and will always be in her teenage years has profound meaning. He said: "Fascism and boyhood continue to be our inevitable historical signs to some extent. Boyhood-in personal life, fascism-in national life." Fellini believes that fascism is also a kind of childhood. , It has been delayed for too long and has surpassed any natural limits. "What I mean is that we want to be children forever, transfer our responsibilities to others, and always feel happily that someone is caring about ourselves-sometimes it is the father, sometimes it is the mother, sometimes it is the representative or leader. In addition. There are also the bishop and the Virgin, and there is TV." In other words, we are young people who never grow up and others think for themselves. A person’s youth is the fascist age of a country and a society. As a teenager, there are others who care about, and others think for themselves. For a country and an era, there are "what representatives or leaders" to think for everyone.
Therefore, Fellini believes that the eternal prerequisite for the emergence, spread, and survival of fascism is the obscuration and non-civilization of the province. People are not good at understanding their own specific practical problems, and they don’t want to think deeply about their connection with life and themselves. Attitudes to life, that is, ignorance, lazy thinking, cowardice, and so on, are the qualities we find in the characters in the film. Conversely, Fellini believes that an upright, educated, principled, and conscious person will never become a fascist. An ignorant, uneducated, cunning, insidious, and hypocritical person is a prerequisite for the existence of a fascist. Those who are underdeveloped, ignorant, and naive are the soil for the development and growth of fascism. Fellini did not treat fascism as an ideology and did not analyze it from a class basis, but attributed this political concept to a biological concept: "If we do not consider the stupidity and humbleness of fascism and ourselves If you treat the cowardly things in the same way, you cannot fight against fascism." Of course, this analysis and induction is obviously one-sided, and the struggle cannot be fruitful.
Fellini tried to show the origin of fascism from the emotional and psychological aspects of the characters in the film. He said: "The ignorance of the Italian provinces that appeared in "My Memories" reflects our own. Because we were all caught in this state of ignorance at the time. The boundless ignorance and chaos. You must get rid of what was once yours. , The things that have been with you for a long time, determine your behavior, make you feel distressed and sad, that is, things in which everything is worryingly and dangerously intertwined-this is the past. The past is not We should be poisoned again. The past must be freed from the shadows, chaos, and ancient obligations that have existed until today... The past should be mastered in order to make our lives more conscious today." This is why Fellini recalled the past. : By showing the closed and closed life in other provinces in the 1930s, we can dig out the root of evil and show the roots of the deepening social and cultural crisis in Italy in order to get rid of the shadow of the past. This is why he returned to shoot a series of retrospective films such as "Rome" and "My Memories" after filming "Sweet Life" and other films describing the 1950s and 1960s.
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