The story in "The Most Beautiful Thing" has the shadow of the director's personal growth. The film is based on both the present and the past. Due to the interlaced relationship between time and space, some people may feel chaotic in the middle, and the ending is clean. The protagonist's childhood story is that there are shadows under the beauty, his parents divorced, he and his sister went through all kinds of troubles, and when they were young and vigorous, they left with dissatisfaction and misunderstanding of their mother, and they returned to their hometown after wandering for many years. He is basically a loser, unable to face these past experiences, and his feelings for his mother and sister are even more entangled.
Some people may feel that such a movie has a chisel mark, such as letting a person open the knot and run to the sea to be reborn; for example, the mother not only has to come to the wedding before the death of the gods, but also shake out a shocking secret. It's all too coincidental, but because of the existence of these bizarre bridges, they just illustrate the complexity of the character of mother, and it is impossible for a person to have only one side. A person's life is nothing more than birth, old age, sickness and death. No amount of misunderstandings will disappear. When the person you always hold grudges or cannot forget passes away, the feeling of disappearance is difficult to describe in words. The reason why people are human is that there are so many trivial troubles that they cannot solve. They care too much about some external things. It seems that the fault is only their parents, and the fault is everyone else. The protagonist has to pay for the impulsive stupidity and irresponsibility when he was young. At the mother's celebration, many people came one after another, and a large and successful gathering was also necessary, and they were all witnesses who stopped to watch.
In terms of technique, the film's shot switching is quite skillful, like the two brothers and sisters escaping from the house in the rainy night and other scenes are well shot. In a film showing the history of personal growth, the boy's sexual enlightenment will naturally not be missed, which seems to be the passionate side of this nation. In contrast, Italians always have so many conversations, they speak very fast, and they are exaggerated when they quarrel.
As for Livorno, maybe I have seen the ball and know that there is such a place in Italy. In fact, it does not matter whether it is Udine or Sicily. Livorno is just the hometown. The lines of the film repeatedly mention the beauty of this place. The fun people and different shops on the street are very reminding and emphasizing. It is the beginning and end of the movie. The parents who gave birth to me and raised me will eventually leave, but my hometown will not, even if it changes. 【Sina SIFF】
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