fate

The unbearable past, the birth of the bottom, the Roman mother who used to be a prostitute used three pigs at the wedding of the ex-pimp, crazy words and deeds and strong aggressiveness with the bridegroom and the bride. She thinks that she is freed, the pimp has entered the marriage of the Holy Spirit, and the prostitute can finally embark on the road of whitewashing. At the wedding, the groom's pimp took out white flowers and secretly blessed the Roman mother and her son in the name of the sacred. Roman mother left her hometown to live a life of street stall selling vegetables in Rome. Her 16-year-old son also came to Rome. The Roman mother, who hopes to become a dragon, longs for her son to get rid of the inferior roots of the rural poor. She teaches her son, who can only dance cha-cha, to dance tango. She was afraid that her son would learn badly from the idle gangsters, so she begged the priest to find a decent and promising life for her son. "I didn't give birth to my son to do manual work," she told the priest. "You can't cook without rice," the priest said. "Everything has to start from scratch." But the priest eventually gave her son a job as a restaurant waiter. Knowing that her son fell in love with a low-level woman with children, Roman mother asked her former prostitute girlfriend to help her seduce her son to let him leave her first love. In order to make her son happy and look decent, the Roman mother and her prostitute girlfriend came to a fairy dance and bought a motorcycle for her son with the money defrauded from a rich man. The son drove the mother at a speed, and the mother was full of beautiful fantasies about her son in the future. Everything seems to be on the right track, but the unbearable past, the mistakes made, and the nightmare of life are still coming to the door. A former pimp approached Mama Roman to pick up her job as a prostitute, but she refused. In retaliation, the pimp told his son what his mother used to be. In this way, the dirty past that Roman mother has been hiding from her son makes her son collapse. She has always longed for her son to get rid of the shackles of the bottom class and become a clean, motivated, far away from the humble and lowly Roman man, but his birth is always accompanied by fate. The son completely lost his sense of self-identity and went on the road of self-destruction. In front of the statue of the Virgin Mary in the hospital ward, the son was instigated by the gangsters and was arrested for stealing the patient's radio, and finally died in the insane asylum in a madness of collapse. Death gesture with hands open and cross like Jesus.

Pasolini's early-rise realistic films depict the post-war economic downturn and difficult living environment, while also delicately portraying the characters' inner struggles. The vigorous vitality of Roman mother is really moving, and it also makes the already tragic story even more moving. As she walked on the dark road, she muttered to herself about her past, her dead parents, her groom being arrested by the police at her wedding, and forced to marry an ugly 60-year-old man, etc. The pedestrians around her took turns running alongside her. Hear her suffering. Pasolini breathes new life into realist cinema with such artistic means.