Take the scene where the whole family goes swimming as an example. Under the sun, the green pond water and the lush green trees around the pond complement each other. No matter men, women and children, young and old are naked, or play in the pool, or lie on the edge of the pool, jade-colored. Flesh is interspersed with light brown wood carvings, scattered in or around the pool.
Judging from the whole picture, this scene is like an oil painting of the Renaissance period with strong texture, highlighting the sacred brilliance of the human body. At the same time, people who are freed from bondage are placed in nature, directly contacting nature with the body, so that the specificity of the body and the universality of nature are blended, which not only highlights the independent status of human beings, but also presupposes behind the independence of human beings. With a natural background, there is a kind of original harmony. In a simple scene, the director challenges all lewd thoughts with the most frank description. Therefore, even if there are some bold scenes in the film, Italian-style passion is also reflected from time to time, but watching this film with a hunting mentality and all the links related to the flesh can only be attributed to lust, I am afraid the director listened to it. is to be sad.
During the two-hour-long viewing, I must admit that I was impatient for a long time, even after the film ended. Its lengthy and trivial narrative, intermittent and complicated character descriptions, and close-up of objects full of metaphors make me feel bored to death, who is used to watching movies with tight plots, intense conflicts, and clear characters. But on the second day, after all the blind prejudice of the first sense of the movie that conflicts with the viewing habits of the movie has receded, I think that this film should be given five stars. This is a kind of delayed clarification. When we are accustomed to evaluating a new thing with a certain way of thinking or internal standards, it is easy to be guided by the original prejudice, so that we have an inappropriate understanding of the new thing, which takes a period of time. Precipitation can digest the new breath brought by new things, and then make it present its due value. Therefore, the real value of this film is not about how a girl who lost her mother finds a father she has not met, and finally found her father after several twists and turns and won a good man As an entry point, she shows us the continuation experience of the entire human life by explaining the coming and going of her life.
The beginning of the film is a DV-like shooting, where the girl travels between various means of transportation alone. Shaking narrow shots, turbulent and broken images, suggest the bumps of this journey, like the displacement of life. In the end, the girl's destination is a small, scenic farm in the Italian countryside. The story is intertwined with Lucy's search for her father and her first love.
Like all who are curious about the reasons for their existence, our beautiful teenage Lucy brings her own mystery to the place where her mother conceived her to find the truth. Facing the owner of the farm, the terminal cancer patient next door, the war correspondent who communicated with her mother, and the three father suspects who can be called "appropriate age" with her mother, Lucy used "Have you killed a pit viper?" where" two questions examine them. This is called an "alibi". But anyone with rudimentary reasoning skills can see at a glance how difficult and convincing this alibi is. But what does this matter? Because the important thing is not who the father is, but the existence of the father, the existence of a person who combined with the mother to produce her. Therefore, the process of finally identifying the owner of the farm as her father is also full of mystery. The evidence is only a mother and son statue carved by the owner.
And the whole point of this father's existence is to announce the beginning of Lucy's life. But this is just the beginning. Life is not just the beginning, its value lies in the continuation.
For an individual, life is limited and short. Lucy's mother is dead, and Mr. Neighbor is dying. Shi Tiesheng said that death is an inevitable festival. One day, life will come to an end and we will all die. But is this the end? of course not.
My mother wrote a diary like a poem (or maybe it was a poem): Where did the green sandals go? I'm not a mother's material, I have a thousand knots in my heart, so I wear green sandals and walk away. One night there was a man standing in the olive grove, he killed a pit viper, pressed me to the ground, and that night, he tore off my crony. I continued to wear green sandals, but I couldn't get off the mountain. Italy, where did you take me in the dark and still night? He has cattle and sharp knives, and somewhere on earth, a wife. He raised my face, separated me and planted something like love in between. I thought I had nothing left, but then you came, a whole new joy. Forgive me, I wasn't ready, when I had poor Lucy, it was you.
This is life. Even if her mother died, Lucy lived. The end of one life does not mean the end of the entire living world. Life goes on and on and on, and the life of the universe circulates endlessly between heaven and earth. The four seasons are reincarnated, everything has a cycle of life and death, and the process of continuous development of life is not interrupted or terminated. As the spirit of heaven and earth, human beings naturally inherit the vitality of the universe, and continue by the inheritance of life and death from generation to generation. And this kind of birth and transmission of life is love.
That kind of love is not bound by secular norms, but is the most primitive and true love, the naked love of life, the pure love of life itself. As proof of this love, Lucy was born. Although there are many things that shouldn't be, the ecstasy of the new life cannot be concealed or replaced. Life is all about love.
Another clue to the film is Lucy's love destiny. She had been in love with Nick when she was young, and they told each other and passed on each other's principles. Lucy also gave Nick the girl's first kiss. Later they cut off contact. But now Lucy is in Italy again. When they meet again, they are still attracted to each other. For Lucy, the best home for her virginity is Nick, because she loves him. And Nick, all he wants is Lucy's first night, not her love.
Lucy tries to compromise and flatters Nick for love. But at the last moment, he couldn't bear this pure lust and ran away in a hurry. Because the creation of life is not a simple sexual act, but a nurturing process full of love. At the end of the film, Lucy and Josephines, who loves her, are finally united. The director used a long four-minute description, which is full of sacredness, because it means the beginning of another life, and it is a sign of the coming and continuation of life. . The purity and ceremonial sense of the picture are moving.
The criteria for liking movies can actually be varied, and some are even very personal and emotional. The criteria for a good movie are much more objective, at least a movie that lets you enjoy the beauty and then the taste of life will not make you feel that it is not a good movie. And that's what this film is.
Ps: Once again, I express my deep condolences for the shortage of subtitle translation talents in our country.
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