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Finally, the two youngest brothers of the Parondi family faced the final direction of their lives: Shiloh, an industrial worker, walked to the factory gate when the alarm bell rang. He said to his girlfriend Furanca, who came later: "I Love you." Furanca also said affectionately: "I love you too." And before leaving him, his brother Luca also said to him: "Go home tonight, we will wait for you." Then he saw the hanging on the wall The photo of the Rocco boxing champion, stroking, then left Shiloh and walked towards the direction of home.
Ciro has found a job and is deeply in love with his girlfriend. His life and love will all unfold in Milan. In other words, Ciro has integrated into it and has become a member of the northern city. For him, it seems that he has truly said goodbye to the family life left over in the southern countryside, and the youngest Luca left him on the way home, which seems to be a metaphor for the youngest he "goes home" with a kind of hope. Seems like a good start. And when they parted, the other party expressed their last hope. At that time, Simon had been arrested and imprisoned, and Luca's first words to Silo were: "Now you are satisfied." It was full of some kind of childish sarcasm, "When we were young, we left home, and it was Simon who made me understand. We are livestock in our hometown, busy with work and obedience, but he says we are not slaves, and don't forget our responsibilities." This was the last maintenance for Simon, and when all this happened, Luca said: "It turned out in the end. , he forgot all about it. And because of this, he ruined himself, made us humiliated, he hurt Roco, and he hurt you." This seems to be recognized by Xi Luo, and he sat there with some sympathy Said: "He had a good nature, but these are gone. He consumes Rocco's kindness and generosity. Rocco is a saint, but what can he do in this world? He can't protect himself, he is too tolerant Now, one cannot always forgive others." Immediately afterwards, he said to his brother Luca: "You will live a more upright life."
This is what Silo, the older brother, expects of Luca, and it is also a kind of justice that he finally embodies by putting Simon in prison. At the celebration feast where Rocko won the boxing championship, Simon suddenly came. When everyone was happy, he told everyone a message: "I killed her." This she is Nadia, Donna When Tia and other men appeared in front of Simon, he rushed up again and asked her why she didn't love her and why she left her, when Nadia told him: "You beast, I hope to never see you, I Hate you!" After the strong kiss, Simon did not just destroy her body this time, but took out a shiny and sharp knife, Nadia at that time probably thought that Simon would not be cruel enough to be real in broad daylight. Killing herself, she even raised her hands to greet her, but Simon finally couldn't control herself, his knife plunged into Nadia's body fiercely, "I don't want to die!" Nadia's Shouting to no avail, as she struggled to crawl into the river to avoid Simon, Simon chased after her and stabbed her in the back again, he loved her, maybe for Simon, Nadia said "I Hope to never see you" means fulfillment, but that fulfillment becomes a terrible sin in extreme love.
Simon came to Luo Ke's celebration banquet with a sense of guilt. When Luo Ke heard the news, he hugged Simon and shouted: "No!" This is not only a suspicion of Simon's murder, but also his own Suspicion of making sacrifices, but doubt did not become a denial, even when Simon was stained with Nadia's blood, when Simon mocked him: "Isn't this what you want? My champion Mr. Rocco." Still stood up, "I was wrong" and touched Simon's face, and then agreed to help him. When Xi Luo asked Simon to surrender, Luo Ke's help was actually his own sacrifice, but Xi Luo took the lead, Leaving on a motorcycle and watching Xi Luo go away, Luo Ke stood in the dark light and said, "There is no more hope!"
It was Shiloh who sent Simon to prison, and even Shiloh tried him on behalf of the law. In this sense, he stood on the opposite side of Roco and chose a completely different path, which is institutional punishment, so Shiloh The last act represents justice and reason. Justice and reason correspond to evil, that is to say, Shiloh and Simon are two completely different life paths after coming to Milan. The mother brought four sons, Simon, Rocco, Silo and Luca to the northern city of Milan. At first, she wanted to go to the eldest son Vincent. The eldest son who found a job in Milan, had love, and was even ready to marry, obviously He had initially integrated into Milanese society, but when the family arrived, Vincent's parents-in-law at the engagement dinner said that everything was ruined, that is, they looked at Vincent's family in the south with a kind of tinted glasses. . So after the quarrel, along with Vincent, the mother and five sons moved out to a small basement for rent. For them, earning money to support the family has become the first need. As the eldest son besides Vincent, Simon actually needs to take on greater responsibilities. He looked for a job, joined the boxing club with his strong physique, and achieved The boxing victory, in a sense, Simon was the first forerunner who really wanted to integrate into Milan.
Vincent was the first person to leave his hometown to come to Milan, but his adaptation to the city was more of a compromise. He told his fiancee Ginetta that he did not want to return to his hometown. This is some kind of disgust. He didn't even go home when his father died. He didn't go to the train station to pick up people when his family came to defect to him. He didn't dare to fight against his powerful parents-in-law. In the end, I was unwilling to live with my mother and brother. In the end, it seemed that the wedding was completed because my fiancee was pregnant. Vincent's story has always been marginal among the five brothers, which in a way means that such a compromise is, in Visconti's view, undesirable. But when the other four brothers also came to Milan and needed to take root here, their fate could not replicate Vincent's path, so how could they determine the direction?
Visconti said in 1960 that "The Rocco Family" can be seen as a sequel to "The Earth is Waving", which means that in "The Earth is Waving", the Valastro family did not really get out of that. In a small fishing village, their lives are enslaved by the oppression of nature and human beings, so as a narrative of this family story, Visconti hopes that the Parondi family will write a new life through five men. If Vincent represents a compromiser, then Simon is a fallen person who has lost himself in the north, and his body reflects the tragic result of being alienated. In fact, since participating in boxing, Simon's heart has been controlled by material desires. He does not smoke just to be able to participate in the competition, but the competition has to pay a huge price, including physical pain, including being swept by the boss, so Simon He started stealing. He secretly took a white shirt from the laundry where Luo Ke worked, and put it back after he came back at night. When the lady of the laundry found out, he called him a thief, but he used his own Her appearance and body captured her, and when they kissed, she secretly took the brooch of the proprietress and gave it to Nadia.
Nadia is a dusty woman who met her when Simon came home that night, Simon took her home, her mother gave her old clothes, and Nadia slipped away when the police came to investigate - she Actually a prostitute. From her own experience, she came to Milan because the city made her fall, so she found a feeling of sympathy in Simon, and a boxer meant a kind of protection to her. But Nadia has a very strong self-esteem. When Simon gave her the brooch, she knew it was stolen by him, so she gave the brooch to Rocco and asked Rocco to tell Simon, Don't look for her again. It's just a dewy relationship, but Simon doesn't seem to want Nadia to leave him. The real reason for his complicated feelings for Nadia is that Roco also fell in love with Nadia. It was during Roco's military service that he met Natty by chance. Ya, the two began to contact and found something they liked, so after Luo Ke had ended the relationship with Simon for her, he began to interact with Nadia.
After Simon learned of this situation, he began a tragic life of love and hatred. He appeared in front of Roco and Nadia that night, and then let Nadia come back to him. When Nadia refused, Simon Even in front of Rocco, he raped Nadia and beat Roco with his fists. When Roco barely fought back, Simon lost almost all his conscience, and finally killed Natty with a dagger. Ya is the extreme expression of his mad revenge. As an evil being, Simon lost everything he once had in alcoholism, indulgence and gambling, and was finally judged by the justice represented by Shiloh, which seemed to be a sign of Simon's tragic life. A final setting. Simon represents evil, and Ciro represents justice. When Visconti set this absolute opposition, he did not want to annotate the fate of a family with the fate of two people. Therefore, between evil and justice, there is a perceptual impulse. Between and rational control, Visconti pays more attention to Rocco: he is even in the middle of Simon and Silo in the ranking of brothers, and the character and identity he represents are also in between, even It can be said that Visconti wanted to find in Rocco possible ways to break out of the South/North, agriculture/industry, family/individual opposition - "Rocco Brothers", which can be seen from the title of this film Visconti's true intentions.
In the beginning, he was just a foil in Simon's life, he accompanies Simon to fight, he sends messages to Nadia, and the laundry where he works is also the beginning of Simon's crime, but when he enlists in the army, especially when he encounters Nadia After that, began to face this intricate world independently. In a sense, Visconti's Loco is a perfectionist, he is kind, he is handsome, he is family-oriented, he is the best son in his mother's mind, just like he is in the boxing ring As above, he won the championship on behalf of Italy. He should be a veritable "Mr. Champion" in his life - but when he was considered a "saint" in Silo's last words, it actually contained some kind of sarcasm, because It was because of his kindness, his selflessness, and courage that Simon fell deeper and deeper, but Nadia, whom he loved, lost his life.
He watched Nadia being raped by Simon. At that moment, he did not step forward to stop him, nor did he protect the weak Nadia with his fists; when Simon beat him with his fists, he did not return; When Nadia found him, he actually said: "Simon has always liked you, he is not bad, go to his side!" In Nadia's surprised and even pleading eyes, Rocco actually said, "Help him. Well" In this case, Nadia was disheartened, when she returned to Simon again, she was not fulfilling Simon at all, but another indulgence after losing her lover, even a kind of physical sensory stimulation. I forgot Rocco's ruthlessness. Rocko didn't want to make Simon suffer. He "give" Nadia to Simon. When Simon owed 400 debts, Rocko stepped forward again. He signed a 10-year contract with the boxing boss to help Simon. Repay the debt; and when he won the championship and knew that Simon killed Nadia, Roco still wanted to help him, even if he was grief-stricken, but he still wanted Simon to escape the punishment of the law-if the righteous Shiloh did not appear , Luo Ke will definitely let Simon escape with all his efforts.
In the face of Simon's sin, it seems that Rocco is acting as a selfless savior, but his salvation is the most selfish. He pushed Nadia to Simon, making this woman who yearns to be loved. He died tragically; he repaid Simon's debt, but Simon fell deeper and deeper, "I only need money" became a portrayal of his poor soul; Simon's final arrest, for this family, actually meant a real disintegration. However, with the setting of Rocco, it is by no means that Visconti wants to examine him on a single moral level. Rocco's selflessness and selfishness are actually Visconti's confrontation with the south/north, agriculture/industry, family / A contradiction in individual time. The family was born in a small southern town. As a continuation of the "Earth is Fluctuating" family, their migration path from the south to the north represents a kind of breakout, but in this kind of breakout, Visconti is obviously taking the south. Simplicity is regarded as a moral advantage, and it plays the role of savior in not being alienated by the northern industrial world, and Luo Ke is undoubtedly such a savior.
When the family left the South, there was an important clue: the father died. It was a spiritual pillar, and after coming to Milan, the mother asked Vincent, the compromiser, why he didn't go back when his father died. In fact, this represents a moral concept, and it is also a manifestation of the contradiction between regions. When the father is missing, it is the son who actually takes the responsibility. Five sons are like five fingers. In Milan, even though he finally got a house and someone taught him to be "Mrs.", in a life where he could never be free from being discriminated against, his mother still had a deep southern complex, and this complex was family solidarity. Among the brothers, Luo Ke can best embody the concept of a mother, and everything he does is for this family concept, especially in the process of Simon's gradual decline, he will pull him back at all costs, that is, he does not want to The five-fingered thug is missing a finger. The evil Simon was finally sent to prison by the righteous Shiloh. Roco hugged his mother and said, "We can't become our own enemies."
He failed to save Simon, and Xi Luo sent his brother to prison again. This is the "enemy" in Roco's eyes. Five fingers became enemies, and a family fell apart. This is the last thing my mother wants to see. Of course It was also unbearable for Rocco. When Visconti maintained a complete southern morality through Rocco's redemption, he knew that it was actually in another predicament: Rocco was actually using selflessness to create tragedy, or, in other words, this kind of "family concept" as a The effort to resist foreign invasion is even more selfish, so he regards Luo Ke as a victim. Only in Luo Ke's self-sacrifice can he retain his moral strength to the greatest extent. At the end, Luo Ke talked about an allusion in his hometown. ," "Remember that mason? When he started to build a house, he would throw a stone on the shadow of the first passerby, and in order to make a house strong, someone had to make sacrifices. "
The idea of sacrifice allowed Rocco to return to the south, to his hometown, and to the life of a "tribe". Visconti also knew that it seemed fate was doomed to use such a so-called simple morality of an agricultural society to fight against industrial civilization. Destroyed, but when Rocco became the victim, in a family that had been torn apart, Visconti seemed to retain hope again, when the youngest Luca stroked Roco's championship photo, when he looked forward to Silo's return at night. Family reunion, he actually represents the last hope of the family, and finally his return home completes a metaphor: without the evil fallen, people still have to go back to their last home, or have a family waiting for those who return home . In this shot that retains the last hope, Visconti is actually maintaining the final integrity with an elegy - when all this becomes hope, in a sense, the contradictions that Visconti faces have actually changed. became its own compromise.
Why did Simon fall? Why did Vincent compromise? Why the family finally fell apart, in Visconti's view, is the temptation of Milanese life, or, in other words, the erosion of the north to the south, that is to say, Visconti instinctively set an immoral external cause , Simon embarked on this road completely after he came to Milan, and Nadia, one of the fuses, came to Milan in the same way. This has a misunderstanding of the theme first: heterogeneous city rules only It is the root cause of their unhappiness, and it is almost the only root cause. Even, the five children born in the same land are harmonious in the southern world, but when they arrive in Milan, they show completely different values. Their personalities are almost worlds apart. In this way, the five people's different life paths are only caused by external factors. Thus, the final homecoming becomes a kind of hope and a kind of utopia for Visconti. In fact, in the story of this family fission, the reality is not a road of hope at all, just like Nadia told Locke that Simon stole the brooch, and she said something while driving: "The whole city is one way."
A one-way street, that is, there is no way to go back, or to come back again, no matter whether it is the compromiser, the fallen, the savior, or the judge, the last hope is not the family that "waiting for you" as Luca said, but the reunion. It is to re-examine what is true morality, what is true sacrifice, and what is true justice when abandoning a southern utopia.
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