Alfredo - teacher and friend
The naive Toto and the kind and sympathetic Alfredo became friends because of their love for movies. Toto secretly took Alfredo's film and hid it in a box like a treasure. There were also pictures of his father, who was about to forget. An accidental fire burned the only remaining pictures. His mother kept beating him, and at the same time It also made Alfredo feel deeply self-blame, but these obstacles could not extinguish Toto's love for movies. He slipped into Alfredo's small world again. Alfredo neglected to leave Toto and put the movie on his own, which has already foreshadowed Toto's popularity. Different extraordinary movie talents. Toto went to the movies with the money to buy milk and forgot the time to be scolded by his mother. Alfredo helped to persuade him. When Alfredo took the exam, Toto helped him to cheat, but the exchange was to let Toto learn to play movies. Later, the unfortunate fire almost took Alfredo's life, but Toto's small body pulled him back from the brink of death step by step. The blindness of his eyes made Toto truly become Alfredo's helper. Then, facing the failure of Toto's first love, Alfredo insisted on asking him to leave and go to Roma to find his dream. He knew that if Toto continued to stay in Paradise Cinema, it would only be another self, facing the sea and blind Alfredo To Toto: "Everyone is looking for the stars of their own happiness. You spend every day in this small town thinking this is the center of the world, you will believe that things will never change, and you will become more blind than I am. Then you You leave, a year, two years, and when you come back, everything changes. Your connection to this land is broken, what you are looking for is gone, what was yours is gone." Maybe that's what The meaning of the story of the soldier and the princess. Before leaving, I told Toto not to come back, don't miss us, such a cruel farewell, Toto may not understand at the time, but it was Alfredo's selfishness that made Toto the film master. Such a father-like selfless love is awe-inspiring and moving.
Mother - the heart that has been waiting
The role of mother throughout the film is from initially opposing Toto's release of the film, to agreeing with him to release the film, and then to Toto going to Roma alone to pursue his film dream. The huge change of thought in the middle all reflects that the mother is really moved by Toto's heart that loves movies. In the second half of the movie, Toto's return, the mother who had been waiting for thirty years, put down the real knitted clothes and ran out, but the corner of the thread was still moving along the body, and the wool on the clothes was gradually shrinking in circles. It seems to have returned to the past. At this time, the two hearts of mother and son really have to be connected, and they have a long talk. When Toto was a young man, he went home late every day after the movie, but his mother waited until he came back every night before opening the door. Locked, in order to wait for the son to be afraid that the son will not be able to enter the door, the mother did not lock the door for 30 years, and then she simply took the lock off and has been waiting for her son, 30 years of time left on the faces of the mother and Toto. The traces of the years, but the distance between the two hearts has narrowed as Toto continues to grow. This widow who knows that her husband will never be able to return from the battlefield due to the death of the battle, has pulled the two children to grow up by herself, and the mother loves her. Great, unselfish mother's love, soul-stirring!
Elena - the lost beauty
Elena played a key role in Toto's growth. Toto was infatuated with her. In order to keep her smile, he took the first film clip that belonged only to him. His infatuation with her made him have The motivation to shoot is to pave the way for Toto to become a director later. The love between Elena and Toto is pure, two young people who are so in love with each other are forced to separate because of the disparity of status, Alfredo told Toto a story about a soldier and a princess: "A soldier fell in love with a noble princess. Finally, one day, the soldier confessed to the princess. The proud princess said: If you wait under my window for a hundred days and nights, I will belong to you. Twenty days went on. The princess looked out every night, rain, snow, wind, frost, he moved, and ninety days passed, and he became completely pale and haggard, with tears streaming down his face, and finally, on the night of the ninety-ninth day , Soldiers stand up and leave!". Alfredo didn't tell Toto the ending and left him to find out. Toto left, he and Elena missed it at the time and met 30 years later, all previous misunderstandings were resolved, and the two embraced each other, because they are each other's true love in their hearts!
What moved me in the movie was not the obliterated movie clips at the end, but near the end, Alfredo's electric bill wife told him after Toto left, "don't come back, don't miss us", never said he wanted to see Duoduo , but he was still thinking about Toto before he died. He had changed a lot and achieved a lot. He would rather bear the pain and see him, but he couldn't restrain himself from thinking about Toto. The touching friendship, from childhood to youth to adulthood, everything about Alfredo and Toto is getting better and better like a novel, but it comes to an abrupt end, making every audience who has this wonderful memory unforgettable.
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