A classic that pays tribute to the classics

Joyce 2022-02-23 08:01:34

I saw this film at the Italian Film Festival yesterday, and after laughing, I was touched in my heart.
Italian movies are always good at telling stories about small people. Three friends, from World War II to the 70s, nearly 30 years of separation and reunification. The whole story is lightly weighted. There is no judgment of right and wrong, and there is no too sharp dramatic conflict, just like a low. Yin's mandolin minor, sometimes peaceful and romantic, sometimes lightly teasing, and sometimes revealing a touch of sadness.
The three friends in the story have embarked on completely different life journeys. They used to fight together, carnival together, misunderstood each other, and went to different things, intertwined with chaotic wars, romantic love, and complex social realities. They are different. The characters seem to be doomed to their different destinies. The scenes of typical Italian humorous scenes in the film make the whole theater laugh endlessly, and the changes of right and wrong that have appeared over the decades, make you have to calm down and think deeply.
It is worth mentioning that there are many plots in this movie that pay tribute to classic movies, and even "The Bike Thief" and "Sweet Life" are directly transplanted into the plot. The technique is quite subtle and will definitely make you love old movies. The audience smiled knowingly~

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Extended Reading
  • Dennis 2022-04-22 07:01:49

    A realistic bitter sweet slice of three friend's life over 30 years time. worth to be watched.

  • Kasey 2022-04-24 07:01:23

    1007 Suddenly looking back at the end of the song

We All Loved Each Other So Much quotes

  • Gianni Perego: I didn't come, do you understand?

    Luciana Zanon: Why did you have to? We had a fight

    Gianni Perego: But I loved you

    Luciana Zanon: Oh, and I thought you did not

    Gianni Perego: How not? In all these years I have done nothing but think of you, always, Luciana

    Luciana Zanon: But not me. Sorry Gianni, 10 years ago I married Antonio, I had two children, then the house, the job, the money that was never enough, you too have had these problems, right?

    Gianni Perego: Yes, of course, but I thought that a great love was a great love

    Luciana Zanon: Yes, sure. But then they were things in the past

  • Elide Catenacci: Am I important to you, now?

    Gianni Perego: Important... Why...? Important because you are dead? I don't know. I don't think... No. No.

    Elide Catenacci: Damn! Why not?

    Gianni Perego: Elide, because when someone isn't important during her life, she's not even important as a deceased!