Epic!

Anabelle 2022-03-17 09:01:09

It took me more than four hours to watch this movie, and it took me an afternoon to watch it. After watching it, I was just amazed, epic!
Bertolucci's films in recent years have become increasingly erotic, and this one was earlier, more political, about the relationship between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, even if it was based on siblings.
I actually don't like politics at all. I occasionally watch elections in XX country or XX region, or watch lace news about fights and candidates. This movie made me think about the proletariat and the bourgeoisie outside of the political class for the first time. The result is that the class is too cruel~~~
Two children, born in 1900 within a day, one is the farmer's son, the other is a worker The two of them have lived in an environment where they are both enemies and friends since they were young. They have cultivated a relationship between brothers and masters and servants. They share everything together, and there will be competitions. Brother Gongzi always uses his weakness to stand out. The children of the workers are strong, and the children of the workers later went to the proletarian revolution. Brother Gongzi became a charitable farmer because the children of the workers understood the difficulties of the workers, but the power of the proletarian revolution was too strong, and the children of the workers were obviously brainwashed. When he got home, he started to kill the younger brother. The younger brother was tied to a chair and was criticized. He calmly watched the workers' children incite the workers' revolution, while the workers' children were determined but confused. share.
This may not be Bertolucci's best work, but it is the most exemplary.
The film has a strong political meaning. In my opinion, the characters and scenes are symbols of political ideas, but it is certain that this film is not about politics, but about a choice. People always have to choose in their own life. There are only one road, but there are too many crossroads, so some people may keep going straight all the way without turning, and some people may change directions, which may be noble or vulgar in the public consciousness, but in fact, no matter how this road goes, in the final analysis, it is the direction, the direction Determine the degree of twists and turns of the road and determine the final destination. At the end of the movie, the two of them did not reach the end. They could actually continue to turn the corner, just looking back at the road ahead. Some of them may not be their wishes, but their choices~~~

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Extended Reading
  • Santos 2022-03-26 09:01:13

    I really liked the first scene. love it. They are all suffocating abstract paintings that capture the soul, and there are no traces between the characters. The second act is somewhat clumsy, and the level drops directly to Bertolucci's early junior level. Just watch Bertolucci watch eroticism, watch scheduling, and experience the psychedelic feeling of Aquaman. The young Depardieu is so handsome, he still has no feelings for De Niro.

  • Jordy 2022-03-21 09:03:15

    The whole film is full of violent aesthetics and bad taste. In the process of watching the film, I made a pendulum movement between emotion and discomfort for the strong political elements in it. But at the end, I realized that the film was "anti-political". Whether you were lying under the train or sitting on the train when you were young, chasing the train or hiding from the train, no matter where the train went, people could not escape either being run over by the wheels of history, or watching helplessly. The fate of others being crushed by the wheel of history but powerless. The flow of the whole episode is smooth, but some moments are a bit blunt. A group of Americans, French, and even Germans played the Italians. Apart from the incompatibility of the mouth, the temperament of the characters made me, a Chinese living in the United States, not able to see the incongruity at all. However, it is three Italian actors who shine: Laura Betti, who plays the perverted fascist cousin Regina, Alida Valli, who plays the wife of a desperate bankrupt landlord, and Stefania Casini, who plays a mad prostitute. The last half hour reminded me of the history of land reform, and even the footage clearly paid tribute to the domestic propaganda posters in the 1950s and 1960s.

1900 quotes

  • Attila Mellanchini: [attempts to organize the women] All of you back to work!

    Ada Fiastri Paulhan: Oh, look ladies, it's the rooster, come to shepherd the hens again! Cluck, rooster, cluck!

    [leads women in throwing straw at a bemused Attila]

  • Man: I know who killed the boy.

    Olmo Dalco: What? Who?

    Man: I saw from a distance who it was.

    Olmo Dalco: [intensely interested] Who was it!

    Man: [walks away, starting to ramble] I walk all day, I speak to all...