When I watched "Nights of Kabylia", there was a song in my head, it was Bob Dylan's famous song "Like a Rolling Stone"
How does it feel
To be without a home
The woman in Bob Dylan's writings is well educated and reduced to the streets, while Kabylia has been independent since the age of 15, slept under the bridge once or twice, worked hard to make money until she bought a single-family house, she is very proud of it, Even in the home of a rich actor, he is not timid.
Masina gives life to the character. She wears short fur and tight skirts, but wears flat sandals and walks angrily. Her body movements make her different from other people in the movie, like a thorny grass, showing herself stubbornly. She danced with the rich actor, and the height gap made people laugh. When she heard the cheerful music, she couldn't help twisting herself, dancing with joy from the instinct of life, and compared all the pretentious and indifferent faces in the high-end nightclub (the camera specially gave such a contrast). Even if she didn't make any expression, her stubby eyebrows looked angry. She burns her ex-boyfriend's clothes, fights with prostitutes who mock her, and even gets irritable with Shi Yu's caring friends when she's in a bad mood. It can be said that from facial expressions to body movements, the whole body is full of drama, which means "female version of Chaplin".
At the end of the film, Kabylia walked with the young people who came home from play, they played music, they laughed, they naturally surrounded her, as if she and them were always together, they all found their way home, Kaby Leah had tears in her left eye, and even smiled, her inner innocence and unyielding, still undefeated by fate.
Kabylia's identity is a prostitute, but the film does it in a suggestive way. The most classic scene is a group of nuns passing by at night. She followed up unconsciously. The nuns and her backs are on the left side of the frame, and the center of gravity of the characters in the frame is to the left. The right side of the frame drove in, the person in the truck shouted "Short", and Kabylia turned his head and entered the right side and got on the truck. She and the nuns on the left were bisected by the central axis formed by the truck. After that, the Virgin Mary did not answer her prayer to change her fate. They met another group of nuns in the suburbs. Kabylia stepped forward to challenge her. She and the nuns were still on both sides of the frame, just like nuns and prostitutes standing. at both ends of the secular world.
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