The storyline of the movie is unremarkable.
It is about: During World War II, the famous Peruvian poet Pruda was exiled on the island of Sant Antoni in Italy for using poetry as a weapon to direct his attention to the ruling class. During his life on the island, Mario, a full-time postman who delivered letters to him, became Pruda's closest friend in the local area with his simple and beautiful personality, as well as his curiosity and love for poetry. The atmosphere of the whole story is peaceful and warm. Even when Mario's unfortunate death is told at the end, the sad emotions are controlled with restraint. When the audience is appreciating, although there will be no ecstasy or sorrowful throbbing, they are still silent and unbearable to leave.
Placed to win the Oscar for best original music award, this film can be described as a heavy lifting.
There is no grand symphony orchestra, no fierce rock rhythm, nor the childish voice like "The Spring of Cow Herding Class". Just a Spanish guitar, an accordion and a violin, laid back and simple as a country band, laid back and contented. On the shore with turquoise waves and breezy seas, under the star-filled night sky in summer, on the drifting and swaying fishing boats, free and natural. When such a melody is interspersed in the plot of the film, you are infected and affected by it almost all the time; however, you seem to be unable to perceive its existence at all.
This reminds me of Mario's "poem" for his loyal friend, the poet Pruda, using various voices on the island: first, the sound of the waves in the bay, softly; second, the waves, loudly Third, the sound of the sea breeze over the cliff; fourth, the sound of the wind gliding over the bushes; fifth, the sound of papa’s sad fishnets; sixth, the church bells; seventh, the sky full of stars on the island, I have never felt the sky so beautiful; eighth, the sound of my son's heartbeat.
Perhaps Pruda can use words to create more beautiful verses, but I am afraid that no one is more fascinating than this "poem of sound". Because all the sounds are like the breath of life on Sant Antoni Island. It's natural that you can't realize its existence in normal days, but when you really feel it with your heart, you will find that what seems the most natural, but the most prosaic, is the source of all vitality and the driving force for endless life.
Perhaps, the music in "The Postman" is also in harmony with the plot because of its natural and natural harmony, and has been unanimously favored by the audience and the judges.
However, if a film can deeply impress the audience and make it watch quietly, without time for others, the beautiful music and warm details may not be enough.
Even Mario's simplicity and shame; Pruda's perseverance and kindness, at best, builds a film's peaceful and warm tone, which is far from enough to make an excellent film. Therefore, the spiritual clues reflected in the film are more worth thinking about.
——The romanticized "Ulysses" In a film review, the author mentioned that "Pruda is the image of a father." This is what I think of the situation in "Ulysses". Ulysses and Telemarx are both seeking spiritual relatives. When the two met, the question finally had an answer: Ulysses had found a spiritual son, and Telemarx had a spiritual father.
Recalling Mario and Pruda, there seems to be such a similar subtle connection.
At the beginning of the film, Mario and his father deviated from their future life plans. Mario, who is afraid of water by nature, cannot realize his father's wish to be a fisherman. Being a postman is only a temporary act due to the pressure of livelihood. He has always dreamed of going to the United States, Japan or any developed country to start a rich life. But for a young man with limited knowledge and a narrow range of life, all this is just a faraway fantasy. Therefore, Mario at that time can be said to be a spiritual wanderer. His life has also fallen into a hopeless dilemma.
The appearance of Pruda lit up a dream for Mario, although it was originally about women.
When Mario scanned Pruda's letter, he was surprised to find that this obscure, fat old man attracted many women. The ignorant Mario guessed that poetry gave the poet so much charm. So he began to follow suit with great concentration. It can be seen that the original Mario didn't know poetry at all. Just use it as a powerful tool for pursuing women.
However, when he saw the poet hugging and kissing her beautiful wife and dancing with it in music, Mario seemed to have an inexplicable desire not only for the attraction of women, but for a kind of life. The state and attitude of yearning. As for its origin, Mario may not know yet, but "Poetry is a pursuit of beauty" he seems to have some experience.
As Mario and Pruda get closer, the friendship between the two has gradually deepened. Pruda told Mario how to write poems carefully: "You walk along the sea, you will write a moving poem." When Mario made the first metaphor inadvertently, Pruda's sincere encouragement brought Mario the enthusiasm to continue creating. When he fell in love with the beautiful Bess and asked Pruda for help, Pruda's narration of Dante inspired Mario's interest and desire to write poetry. Because of Pruda, Mario has regarded poetry as a lifelong pursuit. Prudder serves as his spiritual guide. Even because of Pruda's Communist status, Mario also began to care about the activities of the Communist Party, and dared to fight against the people who exploited the common people.
At this time, Mario's spirit has found support,-Pruda is his spiritual father.
In contrast, Pruda's mental void is a strong sense of return, similar to Ulysses, and a return to the crowd at the same time.
The poet and his wife who were abandoned by the motherland wandered to distant Italy. In this strange land, when he was abandoned by his closest homeland, a young and strange life gave him extremely sincere trust.
When Mario had the courage to ask about poetry and how to create it for the first time; when Mario fell in love with Bess and hurriedly broke into Pruda’s home to talk to him; when Mario rashly asked Pruda for his beloved When Bess was writing poetry; when Mario insisted on letting Pruda be their witness, despite the priest's objections and slander. Pruda will not refuse to help because of the disparity between the identities of the two. On the contrary, he seemed to like the simplicity and sincerity exuding from this young man more and more. This instead dispelled his sense of loneliness and loneliness as a drifter in a foreign land.
At home, he used the penholder as a weapon to defend his brothers, but he was exiled by the motherland instead. And in this strange country, there is such a passionate young life who trusts and attaches so much to him. At this time, Pruda was no longer a helpless exile, he found his spiritual son-Mario.
Unlike "Ulysses", Pruda eventually left Mario and returned to his hometown.
On the surface, Mario seems to have lost his spiritual father again, but it is not. Although Mario was sad and disappointed because of the departure of the poet. However, he never stopped writing poetry. He combined the mountain and sea breeze, the starry sky in the summer night, the heartbeat of the baby... into one poem. He also wrote a poem for Pruda to commemorate and thank his poet friends, he has not forgotten the good memories brought to him by the beautiful music. The pursuit of beauty, the desire for freedom and equality, these are what his spiritual father has taught him: "There are some of the best things in life that cannot be erased and trampled on.
Seven years later, the poet Prudah Return to his homeland during his exile-the island of Sant Antoni. Although Mario has disappeared, Pruda left here a "song of the warrior" for Mario, praise and miss That respectable and lovely young man. With the gentle tide on the coast, it is like Pruda's endless yearning, like Mario and Pruda's spiritual fit, supporting their lives forever.
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