Beautiful and elegant emerald, towers, British cemetery, reporters, memorial service, 1935.6.29 in front of Elizabeth Browning's tomb, that day Elizabeth will never sleep in her husband's arms. Yes, it was the famous poetess who had been paralyzed for 24 years, married her 6-year-old husband at the age of 39 and miraculously stood up and walked on her own. Their married life has always been in Italy, so they are buried here to the dust. Arabella played by Judy, the Oscar-winning actress, recites the commemorative poem with the accompaniment of the violin "Dream". The skirt is flying and passionate, and in the distance, Mary, a member of the Scorpion Gang from the United Kingdom, came with her little boy Luca. Late……
Luca is the son of a seamstress, and his father is Mary's Italian boss. The seamstress has just passed away, but Luca thinks she will return soon. Luca is just his father's illegitimate child. The Italian man is very afraid that his wife will know about the affair, and the illegitimate child will not be able to see. Anyone who has seen the movie "The Godfather" understands what family means to Italians.
So, like the three goddesses of Meihui, Mary, who lost her favorite fiancé and father during the war, adopted this poor child. She was responsible for teaching him Shakespeare and black and white. The art madman Arabella was responsible for teaching aesthetics and pets. There is a gentle lady in charge of the food, what a perfect arrangement. Later, a charming American woman who played the role of Aphrodite will teach him what youthful excitement, throbbing, and jealousy are in the future.
The story takes place on the eve of World War II. These middle-aged and elderly British women are resident in Fei Leng Cui. Every afternoon they go to the Uffizi Gallery for tea and paintings. There are authentic Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, Tintoretto, Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck, and for art lovers The Uffizi Gallery is undoubtedly the most magnificent red rose in this "city of flowers". (Filengcui means "the city of flowers" in Italian).
Based on Luca’s father’s judgment on the future development of the world situation, he hoped that Mary could train Luca as a British gentleman and memorize Shakespeare’s masterpieces upside down, so Mary made a cardboard model and used Juliet’s balcony stage as the background for role-playing, and Luca often used it. Old English staged a moonlit night to tell the heart; it's a coincidence, isn't it? Originally, Romeo and Juliet were Italians, but they wanted to speak English in Italy. It can be said that the selection of the dramatists is really attentive. The invasion of the weaker culture by the strong culture is the general trend. Luca's father later sent the little boy to his neighbor Austria, and changed his German language very instrumentally and rationally. When seeing off at the train station, Mary said that Austria’s blue sky and white clouds, beautiful scenery, I hope I can go; Arabella said that I will give you a bunch of flowers, and then kiss my dog goodbye; another aunt said that I will give you your favorite food Cookies. The old British aunts used Shakespeare’s lines to say goodbye to luca as they walked. It was a famous cry from "Henry V": "Grit your teeth, open your nostrils, hold your breath, and pull your nerves to the apex like a bowstring. !" It can be said that there is no shortage of material and spiritual cultivation.
The American woman Elsa used to be a famous dancer. She is sunny and enthusiastic, exudes warmth, does good things without leaving a name, and provides growth funds to Luca, and she is also happy to watch others enjoy a good life. In order to make the group of British women happy, she herself spent a lot of money to move them from the restricted area to the hotel, and lied to them that it was Mussolini's face to the former ambassador's wife. She let the group of women unscrupulously dig through the cabinets to wear her dresses, because they had no fancy dresses to wear during the war. She smiled with compassion, and enjoyed their happiness empathically. She embraced the world wholeheartedly with open arms, without any cover, such a personality is also destined to be easily injured. She has amazing charm, and because she believes too much, she is especially easy to be deceived, especially emotionally. Since ancient times, the wealth has not been exposed, but she went in the opposite direction, giving the "wishful person" an opportunity to take advantage of it, and even life-threatening. Luca fell in love with her hopelessly as a teenager, and knew that it was destined to be fruitless, but still resisted jealousy, tried her best to love her and scattered her fortune to save her from the fire and water. When finally having to part, he said: I will never forget you. She said: I am really unforgettable, so don't tell her in the future that women are too sensitive.
Mussolini in the title is just a cover, just like all the celebrities in Forrest Gump are backgrounds, just to tell the history of personal experience.
When the Scorpion helped the women in the play were imprisoned, the wife of the former ambassador asked the enemy to knock on the door before coming in and say good night before leaving. Keeping the last dignity at all times is the confidence in the bones of the British. Finally, when the enemy was about to blow up the local cultural landmarks, Arabella desperately stood in front of the tower, and the other scorpion women also came to guard the common artwork that belongs to all mankind in a foreign land. This passage reminds me of the landmark buildings that Liang Sicheng marked in advance before the bombing of Japan during World War II, because this is the common property of the people of the world, regardless of national boundaries.
War, science and technology, history, economy, and politics are all important. However, it is this group of people who value art and love more than their own lives that can truly guard the last truth, goodness and beauty in the world.
Luca, raised by such a group of women, must be a loving person. The final subtitles in the play show that Luca became an artist when he grew up, and he also participated in the production of this movie.
In 1999, the 77-year-old director Franco Zeffirelli made this film as a tribute. Ruisby.
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