At that time, I didn't understand my brother Matteo, and was stunned at his jump. His rebelliousness and irritability—such as leaving his brother on the train without looking back and joining the army alone; for example, his sternness and determination when he was a policeman, and sometimes almost ruthless cruelty—such as the warmth of escaping from the family and the admiration of the opposite sex, All make it difficult for me to sympathize with this character from the bottom of my heart. I instinctively prefer my brother Nicola, starting from his first appearance in the movie—with a pen in his hand and a gentle smile behind the door. I like his gentle expression when he coaxes Giorgia to sleep, his sloppy beard but his face at ease on the sailing ship heading to the North Pole, and his helpless happy expression when he is holding his hands by Giulia. At that time, I would cry for the separation and reunion of love, but I did not understand the real pain and sorrow of the two brothers.
At the end of my 20s, I watched this movie again, and I gradually realized that what would eventually settle at the bottom of the river of life would not be a bubble of love; its name is called ideal.
Matteo undoubtedly has had heavy dreams since his youth; every young person who still has dreams can find his own shadow in him. We smile when we see Matteo dismissing literary textbooks, but how many people dared to express their true thoughts against the teacher in the graduation exam like him; when we see all the evils and ugliness in society, who People will not frown or express sadness or indignation, but how many people dare to invest in the military like Matteo, follow their own conscience and justice and do something, even if they fail in the end, they are not ashamed of it. Matteo is lonely. Every idealist who not only dreams but also pursues dreams is lonely. He wanted to resist all the ugliness and injustices in the world, and Yu Yu was just like the picture Mirella took for him with the palm of his hand covering half of his face, with a bleak posture. In a sense, Matteo is a perfectionist. When his ideals are shattered and his youth is worn out by the ruthless reality, loneliness swallows him. But regarding Matteo's real cause of death, I don't think there is a need to give a standard version of the explanation; it's like everybody has different explanations about youth. What is youth? A bean friend's words made me sigh for a long time: "I said that in youth, fixed in Matteo, like a gymnast, like a perfect one-handed leap, falling, youthful red." Yes, death will make idealists. The image is pushed to a new height; just like Matteo, who I can’t think of hate and hatred, will eventually become sophisticated and cunning, and become an ordinary Italian street policeman.
Ideals are beautiful, and idealists should never be ridiculed. If society can progress because we have generations of idealists like Matteo; then Nicola, our dear Nicola, is the backbone of every family and even the entire society.
We don't know if Nicola also had dreams in his youth like his younger brother. At least, Nicola is only portrayed as a straightforward and amiable big boy in the film. But there is something, a noble and beautiful feeling that only belongs to human beings, which finally awakened Nicola and guided him to a path of dedication to others throughout his life. This kind of feeling is called sympathy. Rousseau believed that "sympathy is the only natural virtue that human beings have." It is compassion that urges us to rescue those who suffer without thinking. Brother Matteo is undoubtedly a person full of this kind of warmth, but this kind of feeling in him is not as long as it is preserved in his brother. Nicola almost rescued others with a natural sympathy, such as Giorgia, such as those who were abused in the mental hospital, and thousands of unknown people-they helped the police arrest because of Nicola's pain. As a member of the ultra-left underground organization, his wife Giulia, who was preparing to launch a terrorist attack, was spared the violence. He fulfilled his brother Matteo's dream in another gentle way. Nicola, the psychiatrist, used what he did to change society, even the slightest. At the beginning of the film in the impression, when Nicola took the oral exam, the professor who gave him extra points for admiring his "compassionate" once told Nicola jokingly: If there is an opportunity to work abroad, please do not stay in Italy. Because this is a hopeless country. Nicola just smiled inexplicably. I think that Italy in Nicola’s eyes has never lost hope: when he saw his brother’s cold body under the sheets, when he saw his wife’s desolate eyes when he was arrested, and when he saw the ugliness and injustice of the world. There is no when it is sinful. Because of Nicola, society will not lose hope. If I am a child, I want to have a father like Nicola; if I am a wife, I want to have a husband like Nicola; if I am a mother, I want to have a son like Nicola.
The best youth, we want the best youth. This should be the heart and mind of the Carati brothers, as well as you, me, and all the idealists, the so-called ideal.
I said that youth is there, and I am frozen at the moment when Nicola gently hugs his nephew Andrea. The sun is shining on the blue sea and the sweet face of the child. Forty years have passed by gently, but it can’t take away eternity. Hope.
PS: Lastly, two male actors who play the Carati brothers: Luigi Lo Cascio and Alessio Boni, are both outstanding Italian actors with first-class acting skills in recent years. Among them, Alessio Boni often plays the role of the cold-faced Earl in European films. Luigi Lo Cascio has the title of Venetian actor and is known as the most suitable actor in Italy to play intellectuals. What's interesting is that Luigi's major in college is the same as in the film, which is also psychiatry; if it weren't for Luigi's desire to act, he might be doing Nicola's work in the show now.
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