The two male protagonists in the film, the Carati brothers, the elder brother Nicola is good at words, positive and optimistic, everyone likes him but has always been friendly, and the younger brother Matteo is taciturn, easily excited, and has a strong resistance to his parents. Although they have very different personalities, they get along very well, and at the beginning of the film, they go on a trip together, planning to go to the North Pole. Matteo sympathizes with the abused Giorgia in the mental hospital and smuggles her out, intending to send her to her family with Nicola. However, an accident leads GIorgia to be taken away by the police, which also sets the brothers on different paths: Matteo goes home and volunteers to join the army, while Nicola continues his journey. Here, the story officially begins.
Although the film is six hours long, it did not make me sleepy at all. I feel that it is filled with beautiful human emotions from beginning to end, intertwined under various conflicts. I can't forget Nicola's uncharacteristic sadness for a moment in the film, because on two occasions he was at the door and he didn't take the chance to change his fate: once in the middle of the night when he woke up to find his lover Giulia packing up and leaving, he asked why, she just kept going Shaking his head, he moved away, and Giulia has since turned into a terrorist extreme leftist; another time on New Year's Eve, he bumped into Matteo and left early without stopping, resulting in a tragedy that I didn't expect.
Finally, I want to say that I really like Matteo as a character. His depression, resistance, and excitement are all so ideal.
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