Black coat, black top hat, hands in pockets, neck tucked in the raised collar, eyes blurred and unsmiling, a typical secret police image is shown to the audience at the beginning of the film. In the cold winter, the red light inside the house is full of warmth like a fire. There is a gray sky outside the house, and the sun cannot be seen. Marchello went out to the street, he walked out of the modern cave, but there was no sun outside the cave, and he couldn't see the shadow.
His fascist blind friend read the words in the book on the radio while touching the blind book: Italy and Germany, these two great countries will bring a revolution to the world. As a fascist follower, Marchello is safe at this time.
His fiancée is simple, cheerful, lively, nonchalant, and unabashedly proactively affectionate with Marcello, and her face is full of happiness. The fiancee and Marcello's personalities are in sharp contrast, the contrast is so great that Marcello has to wonder whether Marcello loves this beautiful and charming woman. His father was sent to a lunatic asylum, and his mother spent all his savings for his father, and even cursed his father why he was still alive, and used morphine to paralyze himself and escape from life. Marcello and his mother came to the lunatic asylum to visit their father. The magnificent and white lunatic asylum looked noble and solemn, like a piece of pure land. These people who were judged to be lunatic by reason were as lovely as sitters, and the wise men were planning a murder at this time.
Marcello confided his sins to the priest at the church. At the age of 13, he shot and killed the gay driver who tried to seduce and assault him. At the age of 18, he went to the brothel to determine that he was heterosexual. He wanted to live an ordinary life. , Marry a wife and have children, and marry a middle-class girl who is right. In this way, he can be safe and live safely under the protection of secular morality. God is too generous to us, the Virgin is too kind, the son is too kind, and the pastor is too understanding. This kind of atonement is too cheap. He wants to be forgiven by society and atonement for society. He will confess his crimes tomorrow and redeem his crimes to kill an anti-fascist.
On the train, the newlywed wife revealed to him the fact that she was not a virgin, and that her previous lover was a witness to their wedding... But Marcello said that he didn’t care, nor did he marry her because she thought she was a virgin. , It seems that he really doesn't care, not only if he is a virgin or who he has an affair with, he doesn't even care about his wife... On the moving train, the sunset glows into the carriage , His wife told about the sex process with his uncle when he was 15 years old, while Marcello was excited to have sex with his wife. In this sex description, is the wife attracted to him or the man in his wife’s mouth? Regarding the entanglement and sway of sexual orientation, the film is always showing dimly.
Marcello and the former professor, who was the assassin, stood in the office and chatted about Plato's cave theory. The anti-fascist professor always stood at the window into the sun, and the fascist Marcello always stood in the dark away from the sun. Place. The prisoner in the cave thinks that the shadow on the wall is the truth. When he turns around to gain freedom, can he really recognize that what he sees is only a phantom? The professor opened the big window, the sunlight filled the room, and the shadow that Marcello had struck on the wall disappeared. Bertolucci is almost like using this movie for teaching light and shadow and philosophical illustration, which is amazing.
Marcello's sentiment towards the professor's wife seems to be stronger than his own. This intellectual, mature, and steady woman also looks more compatible with Marcello, more in line with the image of a beautiful middle-class woman. The passage of the two flirting in the room, the silky motion scenes and the rhythm of the music make people look fascinated. When the four were chatting at the dining table, the wife's unscrupulous laughter seemed so out of place with the surroundings, like a crazy intruder. The ambiguous same-sex intimacy between the professor's wife and Marcello's wife even made Marcello jealous. When the three of them were shopping in the evening, blue lights flooded the street, and this melancholy color reflected Macello's inner state. In the hotel room, Marcello saw the ambiguous physical contact between the professor's wife and his wife. At the dance party, when he saw two women dancing, he even shouted not to dance. The passage where people danced in a circle holding hands in a circle will definitely remind people of "Eight and a half"... But Marcello has never forgotten his vow of redemption to society, nor has he forgotten his identity and stand. When the professor was stabbed to death by Macello's colleagues in the wilderness, when the professor's wife slapped the car window desperately to ask for help, Macello didn't respond and showed no expression. The crowd chased and killed the professor's wife in the mountains and forests like hunting. Marcello stayed in the car all the time, witnessing self-salvation, the salvation of the society, the pursuit of security, and the fascist confession, the shadow became readily available at this moment.
Soon, the fall of Mussolini and the alternation of power made the shadows close at hand disappear without a trace. The sense of security disappeared, and the sense of crisis followed. A sexually confused person with childhood shadows urgently needs a new shadow to find inner peace and identity. When he came across the homosexual who violated himself and was shot by himself, and when he found out that this man was still alive, he was angrily exposed to the crowd that this man was a fascist, the murderer of the professor and his wife, and was a homosexual. Marcello passed his identity to this person who had violated himself and left a shadow on him, and even betrayed his blind friends. Marcello, who snarled "He is a fascist", became an anti-fascist at this time, a "follow the trend". Finally he sat outside the dilapidated iron gate, beside a burning fire, in the darkness inside the gate was a wanderer playing music with a disc player. Marcello turned his head and looked into the room (cavity), the fire shining on his face, he seemed to be looking at the wanderer, and he might also be looking at his new shadow on the wall under the lighting of the fire.
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