Generate melancholy niche

Aaliyah 2022-01-12 08:01:28

My Hong Kong International Film Festival ending movie in 2007 was six Visconti movies that I had never seen before. The first is "Rocco and His Brothers". After watching it, I feel that the more than a dozen new movies I watched before the festival, even if it is Cai Mingliang’s sentimental work "Dark Circles" (2006), or the script has a richer texture. Ray Lawrence's "Jindabyne" (2006) may not be as good as that. This is either because "Rocco" is too bright, or it is not detailed and fair, or it will only fall into the "Ping Orange Fight" that Yu Yu argues, not to mention my feeling that there is no further theoretical support; but Having said that, "Rocco" is quite in my heart, one of the reasons is that I think I can be substituted for Rocco's situation in the film.

The whole film is three hours long, divided into five sections according to five brothers: Vicenzo, Simone, Rocco, Ciro and Luca. The young Frenchman Alain Delon plays Rocco, the youngest of his family. In the opening movie, he, his mother and three other brothers, live in Milan from the south and live with his eldest brother Vicenzo. Rocco was not particularly conspicuous at the beginning of the film, and when he and his second brother Simone went to the boxing gym with his eldest brother to practice boxing, they gradually taught the audience to pay attention.

The core plot of the movie is the change in the relationship between Simone, Rocco and the woman Nadia. Nadia was originally a young woman selling sex services. After arguing with her family one day, she went to the basement where Simone and Rocco lived for help. Soon Simone liked her. Although Simone gradually emerged in boxing at the same time, he was not good at financial management and insisted on being serious with Nadia, so he was distracted. Nadia left Milan for him, and Rocco also has to do military service.

After Rocco served for more than a year, he met Nadia who wandered there in a small town. The two agreed to return to Milan to see each other, and fell in love later. Simone's friend told Simone, seeing that his third brother was so angry, Simone harassed the two friends. Unfortunately, the two were taken back near Nadia's residence. Although Rocco was good at beating, he was outnumbered. He watched the second brother rape and "declared" Nadia's "truth" to demonstrate. The two brothers then scrambled and walked several streets until they were exhausted.

The sad Rocco just wanted to give in. He finds Nadia out, and asks Nadia to return to Simone to cheer him up again. Nadia refused, and finally broke up with Rocco in grief, but implemented Rocco's plan. Rocco also returned to the boxing gym, venting his hatred with his fists.

Nadia returned to Simone and played the role of the former rascal goddess, but Simone still drinks and gambled all day long. He didn't return to the boxing gym or find other jobs. In the end, he owed a lot of money to the former manager. Upon hearing this, Rocco went to the manager's house where he and Simone had been discovered with his eldest and fourth brothers, and signed a ten-year death contract with the new manager to pay the debt in advance. Although the money debts are temporary, the love debts have regenerated. Simone’s friends once again appeared on the stage, reiterating that the collusive bullying of Rocco and Nadia a month ago was not over, and Nadia went back to his old career. At that time, the relationship between Simone and Nadia deteriorated again, and Simone took the dagger to the river. While finding Nadia, in the overlap with Rocco's participation in the boxing match, Simone killed Nadia one by one.

Rocco won. Mom and the four brothers celebrated in the apartment. Suddenly Simone came back, and his mother kindly asked him what he wanted to eat, but Simone asked Rocco to enter his mother's room and stammered about the murder. It was Rocco who broke down at that time, crying abruptly.

The happy reunion ended in tragedy. Concessions cannot be exchanged for good results.

At the end of the movie, Luca chats with Ciro in the factory where Ciro works. Luca tells the ending of Simone: He didn't listen to the pragmatic Ciro's advice to surrender, but was arrested after hiding on his roof for several days. Finally Luca reminded Ciro to go home at night and go back alone. The camera also showed newspaper vendors hanging up the newspaper against the wall, saying that Rocco had won a boxing match abroad. Although the family gathering was excluded from the movie, the audience had guessed that there were at most mom and three brothers in the clean apartment upstairs that night. From then on, I recalled the unforgettable, the unity and joy of the five brothers when they saw snow and job opportunities in the semi-basement.

It is not the tragedy ending that fails to reunite, but the ending of the concession. Ciro finally said that Simone took good care of him when he was in the country, but he changed when he arrived in Milan; and a few sentences in the retrospective magazine are


"Rocco is a saint. But in the world in which we live, in the society that men have created, there is no place for saints like him. Their piety generates disaster."
"Rocco is a saint. But in our world, this The human society does not give any place to a saint like him. And the saint’s good deeds will only bring tragedy.”


Rocco is called a saint because of his retreat to make it visible-and the mother’s, but only Indirect understanding—seeing Simone stealing clothes from customers in the laundry where she works, and not stopping, after more than two years, she was willing to be happy for two people, but also sacrificed a girl to save her brother, and finally signed a ten-year death agreement , Lest my brother die due to money debts, if the audience wants to watch the whole movie, all three will be visible. Whether it’s spoiling or bullying, Rocco takes care of all the unhappiness. I’m not sure whether he made his brother feel at ease, but he did it, or maybe it was because he thought it would be ignored. The pain is not as painful as the sinking pain of a loved one. His last big eruption, instinctively thought it was because all his visible efforts were gone, but the elder brother still walked on the road of no return in the end.

I also think of some concessions that I have made to claim or appease myself, although not as much as Rocco has done, so natural.

And the melancholy of Alain Delon. In adolescence, I heard people make fun of XX for "pretending to be melancholy", but I didn’t know the feeling of sadness, but I had to pretend; although Alain Delon is really acting, the acting is true and the plot is not true, but he is also "pretending to be melancholy", but even if he is not true. It happened, but after hearing such a story, you have to act again. Shouldn't you really show an unhappy face?

Chat with acquaintance before watching. She knew that I hadn't seen it, and she said, "If you haven't seen it, then it's worth seeing. Alain Delon is really an invincible boy." The twenty-four-year-old film boy, Jun is right, and you can get it again without having to bow your head and smoke. Repeatedly, it became a melancholy niche worthy of its name.

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Rocco and His Brothers quotes

  • Luca Parondi: I was a kid when we moved here. It was Simone, not Vincenzo, who made me understand that in our hometown we were beasts of burden, confined to work in blind obedience. He said nobody should be a slave and we must never neglect our responsibilities.

  • Luca Parondi: Rocco's a saint, but what can he do in this world? He won't defend himself. He's so forgiving. But one mustn't always forgive.