From 4:00 pm to 11:00 pm, taking a nap and eating in the middle, I was still a little tired and exhausted my emotions. After reading it, I felt sorry for the time and emotional effort for not writing anything.
The screenwriter is still very old-fashioned, and everything has to be reconciled. Although the editing is very concise, this psychological process will still fill in the gestalt, which is actually difficult. This is the only thing I don't agree with about this movie. Nicola said to Sarah: It depends on how much this incident disturbs you, and if it is big, you have to forgive. I guess this translation is not necessarily completely accurate, and I understand it like this, and I think there is another layer in it, not forgiving is also a kind of reconciliation, what we want is not external forgiveness, but self-reconciliation, but the two are showing There are overlapping parts in the form.
This is a movie that is very suitable for interpretation by psychoanalysis. I don't think any psychologist has commented on it. It is probably too long to finish it.
The film tells the story of a family for forty years before and after, with Nikolai and Mario as the main line, the two brothers are very different, the older brother Mario is like a warrior in ancient Greece, brave and sad, the color of his eyes in this family is In particular, he also isolates himself as an alien, which is difficult to understand. The younger brother Nicholas was tolerant and merciful, and his qualities set the tone for the Great Reconciliation.
Mario first. There is no evidence to convince him that his mother loves him, and his suicide is largely a revenge on his mother, so his mother is also angry. When she threw the book, she was saying "How bad I have done, How much hatred do you have for me to hurt yourself like this." Later, seeing that her mother's occupation was a primary school teacher, it became clear that Nikolai also mentioned on the boat that she felt that her mother's love was divided among her students. (There may also be competition between brothers), what you get yourself is only a piece, that is not enough to fill a solid self. Whenever he approaches a woman he likes, he also does not believe that he is fully loved, the relationship is insecure, and the avoidant attachment to his mother is also substituted for other objects, including with his sister and brother, always Nikolai wrote to him, but he rarely expressed himself. So for safety, he chose to be alone, but the noise of Christmas Eve told him that lonely people are shameful. Darkness is not scary, what is scary is a beam of light that shines in, you know that the outside world is sunny, and you know that you can't grasp this beam of light and will spend your whole life in darkness. This is hopeless. Add to that his high impulsivity and aggressiveness (internal and external) and it's not hard to understand his suicide.
In addition, when Mario saw that Zoe was taken away by the police and was unable to rescue him, he chose to become a police officer, which was an identification with the attacker. But Nikolai couldn't understand, he just made the opposite choice, and the reaction became the opposite of the police, becoming a radical, just a moderate radical. He is the epitome of the whole generation of young people after World War II, and the spokesperson of the Beat Generation. He read Ellen Ginsburg's "Howl" together with a group of young people who were deeply influenced by oriental culture. He spent all the money to work and travel by car. He has a warm-blooded imagination of an ideal society. With the deep sympathy of the people at the bottom, at the moment when all values collapsed and rebuilt, he searched and found his way.
Nikolai is a person who is too perfect and too healthy. If you have such a younger brother, you will also be jealous of him and want to be him and gain more mother's love. So Mario told Mirella that his name was Nicola. He really wanted to be Nikolai so much. If he was Nicola, he could be with Mirella. The finale confirms that, Nicola and Mirella are together, just like Mario has an ideal life as an ideal self.
If this family is regarded as a system, Mario is the "bad boy" in the family, and Nicola is the "good boy" who is loved by thousands of people. It can be said that what they undertake is the good and bad parts of the system. If they are identified as bad children by family members, then all the bad things that happen, the first suspect is this bad child. But is there an absolutely fair family? As young people ask, is there an absolutely fair system?
It was in this questioning that Julia became a member of the radical red group. In Nikolai's body, there is also this part, but he completes the pursuit of fairness in a more adaptive way. Like Julia said, he was merciful to everyone. Going deeper, he has always felt guilty about his brother, especially his death. This is the guilt of the "good kids" in the family for the "bad kids", I shouldn't have gotten so much love and left you with nothing to depend on. Therefore, when he learned that Mario still had a posthumous child, he was extremely pleasantly surprised. For him and for his mother, the love and shame for Mario that was nowhere to be placed could finally be compensated for this child.
Nikolai is a near-perfect father, and even he attempts to fulfill the role of a perfect mother, but apparently not very successful. Sarah seeks recognition for her mother, who is more like a perfect mother, so she prefers to live with her aunt, and she even chose the same archaeology major as her aunt. I especially like this character, her undisguised truth is enviable. Only the container is strong enough to withstand the beating, to withstand the truth, without separating the good from the bad.
The supporting characters are also carefully designed, whether they are bankers or working class, they are rich aspects of the entire era. Carlo's style really has the sense of a gentleman who has been infiltrated by studying in the UK.
Absolutely five-star movie, the soundtrack is super attentive, and the photography is also moving. A glimpse into the second half of the twentieth century of the leopard.
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