Cihang Pudu (Miracolo a Milano, 1951)

Ewald 2022-01-21 08:02:30

1. "After the army, there must be a fierce year." Even after Shang Tang used justice to defeat Xia Jie, after his victory, the country suffered five years of drought and famine. The new crown pneumonia is another world war, and people are still struggling in the mud. Even if the virus is defeated, people's livelihood and overall economic revitalization still have a long way to go, and the weakened people's hearts will take a long time to recover. Cihang Purdue (Miracolo a Milano, 1951), formerly known as the Miracle of Milan, is a post-World War II movie. Against the background of such a declining people’s livelihood, he described a savior who brought hope to mankind-such a human society. The leader, he has the figure of Zhang Liang (looks like a woman and a good girl), and he has the characteristics of Chen Ping (for slaughter, even for meat and eating), and his urban construction and water conservancy renovation show like Fu said (cited in the edition) Zhujian) and Xia Yu (doing his best), he also has the heart of a holy king in Lao Tzu's book (one is kindness, second is frugal, and third is not dare to be the first in the world). Although viewed from the outside, everything in the story only happened in a slum, but here it makes the world go home.

2. How is such a character shaped and tempered? The movie gave a hint-his adoptive mother, the peasant woman who picked him up in the vegetable field and raised him, planted the seeds of love and hope in his young heart. In the movie, he grew up as the protagonist of the story. A short clip to illustrate. One day, the boy messed up the house. The boiling water overflowed from the stove to the door. The adoptive mother came back and saw it. She did not punish him, but treated the overflowing water as a river and put it on the river bank. Toys, play with the house wine-the worst case, the best improvement. So the seeds of love and hope sprouted in his heart, even if the old lady is dead, even if he is left and right in the world, such an optimistic spirit has been inherited.

3. Di Xijia became a master of neo-realism because of the filming of Ladri di biciclette (1948). The Cihang Pudu, which was released three years later, used the solutions that were often used in ancient times to solve the problems, so that gods or angels Coming to solve the problems of the world. However, the design of the script in this way is not to be lazy, but to place the lofty ideals on him and the infinite sympathy for the world on the gods and angels.

4. The novelist O. Henry's Gift of the Magi (The Gift of the Magi, 1905) once described such a pair of lovers. A man sold a gold watch to buy a comb to give to a girl, and a girl sold long hair to buy a chain. Give the man a good watch to wear. The film quoted this paragraph in which a white girl made a wish that his skin turned black, while a black boy made a wish that his skin turned white in order to match the other person.

5. There are two extra characters to pay attention to in this movie. One is the Solier who runs out of the slum, and the other is the policeman who walks into the slum. Ordinary people’s attitude towards them is antagonism, conflict, rejection, resistance, and disgust, but in the protagonist of the story, that is, a true leader, there is no such way of treatment-the Soli betrayed for petty gain In the entire community, he did not understand the relationship of "the skin is not there, and Mao will live together", but he was not expelled; and the police, symbolized by the vested interests and the powerful in society, made a wish in front of the protagonist of the story. The same treatment was granted, and there was no discrimination.

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Miracle in Milan quotes

  • Totò: Would you like the sun?

    [Edvige nods, so Totó looks toward the horizon, where the sun comes up in a few seconds]