"Happy Lazzaro" won the Best Screenplay Award at the 71st Cannes Film Festival in the main competition unit. The young Italian female director Alice Rohrwacher is the director and screenwriter of the film. This is only her third feature film, and all three of her feature films have participated in the Cannes Film Festival, and the last film "Miracle" also won the Grand Jury Prize. Can be described as talented! "Happy Lazzaro" tells a magical allegorical story. Lazaro is the male protagonist's name. He was a stocky young man, short but muscular, always wearing beige short-sleeved, beige striped trousers. He was one of a group of farmers. And these dozens of peasants of all ages were actually imprisoned in the mountains by a female tobacco tycoon called the Marquise, isolated from the outside world, and brainwashed with religion. They had no idea that the world had already modernized, and thought It's still the old days of the tenant system. They work all day, but they are forever in debt to their masters, living a simple and weary life. However, living such a life, they don't seem to suffer so much. They have simple and beautiful music, simple and direct love, natural and simple happiness, and hearty smiles... And pull Zarro is the most capable of these people. From the very beginning of the movie, he was the object of being called, hugging the grandmother, catching chickens, watching the chicken coop for others, and calling Lazaro's name one after another while harvesting in the fields, which was a beautiful song. It seems that anyone can command Lazaro. In the words of the Countess, "I exploit them, and they exploit the weaker, this is a food chain that can never be stopped". But Lazaro never complained, accepted it readily, and tried his best.
One day, the Marchioness came here with her son Tancred, the arrogant, rebellious and weak young master, dissatisfied with his mother's actions and powerless to resist. By chance, Tancred and Lazaro met, and extended a hand of friendship to him, and called him brother Lazaro, but I don't know how much sincerity and how much jokes in it, Tancredi pretended to give Lazaro a gift. Zaro uses a tattered slingshot as a weapon of the so-called alliance of their knights to one day rebel against the slave masters. Simple as Lazaro, he had no doubts about the young master's jokes. He sincerely believed and accepted Tancred's friendship, and his heart was definitely full of joy and gratitude. Lazaro made coffee for Tancredi, delivered cigarettes, stole food, cut his own fingers for the cowardly Tancredi, shed blood, couldn't find the missing young master because of work, got a high fever in heavy rain, and finally, Still on the way to find Tancred, he fell off a high cliff, and his life and death are unknown...
With the sound of the voice-over, the film changed from warm-colored realism to cool-colored magical narration. A female voice is telling an ancient legend about wolves and saints. In the picture, a wolf came to the unconscious Lazaro, but it did not eat him, because "it smelled a kind of smell, a kind of good person". The wolf is gone, and Lazaro is awake. The village was deserted, the walls were crawled with cobwebs, and the grass was overgrown. It turned out that after Lazaro had traveled to several decades, he met the people he lived with before, and even miraculously, he met Tancred, a young master who was still bohemian, but he was middle-aged and bloated, his hair was pale, and he was already bankrupt. so as to be penniless. In order to help Tancredi, the young master who had formed a friendship with him, Lazaro walked into the bank and wanted to help him get everything back, although he did not know what a bank was. Lazaro, who was mistaken for a bank robbery, was beaten to the ground by everyone, blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, and the wolf appeared again...
Lazaro is a pure and perfect existence. He has a pair of incomparably clear and pure eyes, like diamonds, without a trace of impurities, shining with moving light. Those pale green eyes were as deep and tranquil as lake water, as if they could drown all the evil in the world. He is hard-working, kind, loyal, and never complains or complains. Lazaro is not a fool who knows nothing, he is full of spirituality and vitality, he is natural and simple. Lazaro is a good guy. Before he fell into the valley, he was such an existence. And when he wakes up, Lazaro has a divinity. His face has remained unchanged for decades, his eyes are pure as always, and his heart is always full of warmth and love. When those eyes were watching the lively singing and dancing on TV seriously, and an inadvertent smile crossed the corners of my mouth, my heart seemed to melt, and I didn't know when the tears came out of my eyes. When he and his fellow villagers were kicked out of the church and not allowed to listen to the chant, the chant left the church and went with him. The deceit, indifference, ugliness and evil in this world are more and more obvious because of Lazaro's existence. So, is Lazaro happy in the end? Of course he is happy, because in those pure eyes, there is no evil at all. When Lazaro fell and the wolf appeared again, was the legendary saint finally eaten by the wolf? unknown. Is Lazaro dead? Nothing matters anymore. The angel strayed into the world, and the light flashed in the eyes is still dazzling, we know that the angel has come!
In an interview with the director, she said that the original intention of her creation was to reflect the reality of Italy, and she was inspired by immigration issues, and it was a film about ideology. But we don't know much about Italian problems, we always look to our present moment from the movies. In this world full of evil, what is good? What is happiness? This is what I thought about for a long time after watching the film. And whenever I think of those clear eyes, everything seems to have an answer! I will remember these eyes for a long time as a wake-up call to myself. Actor Adriano Tardiolo, who plays Lazzaro, is acting for the first time, and as I write this. "Happy Lazaro" is being screened at the Pingyao International Film Festival, and he also came to Pingyao. Lazaro, who used to be halfway across the world, is now 200 kilometers away, and I have just left from there. I can't help but feel the magic of the world and the arrangement in the dark! (How much does it actually have to do with me? But I'd rather think so!)
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