However, the director seems to be very slow. Throughout the whole film, he is not continuing the beauty but detracting from the beauty. He made our goddess ugly, made her degenerate, made her weather-beaten, made her grow old. But if it's a "Ball of Suet"-style indictment movie, I don't agree. Because the accusation the film lacks its innocence and humor. It's not new to use the male lead as the first point of view in a movie, but it is this fourteen- or fifteen-year-old boy who makes our eyes shine. His role is like the exposing the emperor's little girl in "The Emperor's New Clothes", he knows everything. But unfortunately, there's nothing he can do, he's just a child and all the adults in the town are "emperors", and as a result he has nowhere to complain and nowhere to expose.
On the other hand, what surprises us is that it is not his innocent heart that motivates the boy to understand everything. On the contrary, he approaches the heroine with strong sexual fantasies and vague sexual impulses. He is eager to get the heroine's favor, eager to know everything about the heroine. However, the reality is ruthless, and he can only look to Mei to quench his thirst. Driven by the desire for beauty and sex, boys do what many teenagers do in their sexual and psychological growth. The director used a humorous and wise way to complete a sex joke. This kind of ridicule makes us send out a nostalgic and kind smile.
After all, sex is built on the basis of feelings, and the boy's eyes moved from the delicate and embossed curves of the heroine to her heart. His thinking matures and has his own opinions. Although there are preconceived ideas and the suspicion of Xishi in the eyes of his lover, he is determined not to believe in the holiness of the heroine, and will do everything possible to prove it.
Undoubtedly, the whole process of proof is a painful one. Because of the coveted men of the town and the covetous eyes of the town's women, and the death of her husband in battle, the heroine's life and spirit are in trouble. What's more unfortunate is that she was harassed and falsely accused by others. The successive blows made her difficult, and she had no choice but to put down her dignity and take out the capital of a woman. Nan Hai had a panoramic view of the whole process, but he was helpless with grief and anger. The film uses an exaggerated stage-like performance to transition this process. The lawyers are spitting and savage, and there is a possessiveness behind them; The ultimate spells are all expressed in a clown-like deduction method, and the seemingly comical performance of the movie magnifies the ugliness of human nature tenfold. In this process, the only thing worth remembering is the boy's eyes full of tears.
If the movie ends here, it will at best show us all kinds of ugly human desires. However, it didn't stop there, and as a result, it was an unprecedented success. The heroine's husband did not die, and persistently brought the heroine, who ran away from home because of the unbearable persecution, back to the town that originally belonged to them. They lived strong under the unbelievable gaze of the crowd.
War has cost a man an arm, a woman her sanctity, and finally, as people march with the point of a gun poking a Mossolini-encrusted frame, we finally understand that movies are not so much for the people of the town An accusation, rather a hatred of war.
What makes people gracious is that the two hearts that have been baptized by the war have not died, but are still alive and strong. At this point, the heroine who the director let the lead wash away tells us that the beauty is her heart that is not afraid of wind and rain.
The name "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" is not wrong after all. Beauty is not afraid of the passing of time and the whip of the devil.
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