You haven't opened yet and I'm withered

Torrey 2022-03-22 09:01:51

Ever since I read a novel from "Xin Lei" when I was in junior high school, I have always had an inexplicable affection for such a story. A young man, a fascinating woman.

I remember that it was a Chinese class. I looked out the window after reading the novel. The ending of the story was that the boy went to the woman's house with a condom. Later, everything became panic and dreamy, and later, the story was over. Condoms are never used.

Later, I stopped watching "Xin Lei", and I almost forgot the story. I only remembered that one, and I fell in love with this type of story from then on.

People who have watched "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" talk to me about this movie, and they all say with a smirk, it's beautiful, beautiful, and fragrant. So sitting on the sofa with SARS, I was still struggling with whether or not I should spoil the innocent girl like this. And it turns out that those people read it just like watching "Norwegian Forest" with a heart of reading pornographic books.

Renato. His sexual fantasies are so endearing, he's involved in silly boy games, and he's even delusional. In the dream, he is a hero, an emperor, and a warrior. He wants to help Melina get rid of the rumors and protect her from harm. But in reality, he just watched secretly, always just a pair of small frightened and lustful eyes in the crowd, so childish and powerless.

You miss her dearly, unforgettable, and she can't even remember your name.

The middle part of the film reminds me of "Sunny Day", but in the end, it is more charming, more gorgeous and more sad than that film. Melina is much more beautiful, gorgeous and sad than Milan.

Years later, you find that your initial impulses and fantasies were nothing more than a joke when you were young. Years later, you also have a wife. You may forget the most beautiful inner drama you have ever had, and you will still want to possess it madly. A woman is a woman, a woman is no longer the same thing to you.

Then one day she appeared before your eyes again. Old and simple, and there is no obvious difference between the little townspeople on the island. Say thank you softly as you pick up things for her. She didn't recognize you for a long time, the boy who quietly said to her by her pillow, "Wait until I grow up". Maybe it's just your own dream.

It's hard for you to understand why there are some feelings that live so long, start out as the flutter of some golden butterflies, then become a hurricane at some point in your life, and by the end, those dead butterflies are deep inside you In a corner, it turned into a pile of dust that gradually accumulated with warm residual temperature.

those petty citizens. My history has always been riddled with holes, and I only remember that during World War II, Italy was a defected country.

In the first half of the movie, the little townspeople's eyes seemed firm, and they raised their right hands toward the army, "Hi, Hitler!" At that time, Melina was a widow who was dressed sexy and ostentatious. Not only Renato, it seems that all men have bad thoughts about her. She walked down the street, receiving stares and whistles and cheers. Men want her, women are jealous of her, men say, "Can I fuck your daughter", women say, "She's a slut".

Then Italy defected. Everything reversed with a rumble. People lined the streets to welcome the American army, and she swept through the crowd shamelessly at the intersection with her unchanging expression. People started saying, "she hosts Germans", "that slut slept with Germans, she's a whore!"...

like this country, people are so fickle and unprincipled - maybe they don't Know what you are doing. They didn't know when they fantasized about Melina, they didn't know when they worshipped Hitler, they didn't know when they defected with the country, when they surrounded Melina and kicked her belly and cut off her long hair, they still didn't know Know what you are doing.

Maybe the only thing that hasn't changed is Melina. From beginning to end, she is a helpless widow who is dressed sexy and sexy, and is raped by men for various shameless reasons because her husband is away and needs help.

I'm here to curse through gnashing of teeth, I hate these men, they're rascals worse than animals.

Because I never thought Melina was a slut.

I think of Maggie Cheung in "In the Mood for Love" with an unpleasant aluminum pot, walking downstairs and Nana in a cheongsam.

The old aunts said, yo, dress nicely, how about going to Ali's?

She said, go buy a bowl of noodles.

Ala made the wontons and helped Ala eat it together.

No.

She turned and walked out the door. The aunties whispered disdainfully: they are still dressed beautifully when they buy a bowl of noodles.

How familiar it all is. It's the pig who doesn't understand why the cat keeps cleaning the fur.

I think Melina is just better than most women, her clothes are her demeanor and even her dignity, but her clothes are misunderstood like her dignity and stripped by those men time and time again .

In the end, when the last bit of her self-supporting dignity that remained in her clothes was brutally torn apart by the angry women on the island, she finally cried, with anger, despair and puzzlement, she must not understand why she was attacked by People's care and eyes, as well as the body and dignity that must be paid, are finally cast aside by the same group of people. Whether she was expelled or she left, the world there is unbearable, the world belongs to the common people, she is too dazzling there, and it hurts those lives.

If her husband was around, if she wasn't on such a beautiful but narrow island... no if, it was a teenager's dream, his hazy first sexual fantasy, she happened to be the protagonist, she happened to be A widow who was too old, she happened to have a demeanor that was incompatible with the island, and withered before he opened up.

At the end of the novel, the woman said to the boy, you have not yet opened up, and I have withered.

That's a spell.

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Malena quotes

  • Renato's Father: [regarding Renato's incessant and loud masturbation sessions at night] You are going to go blind!

  • [last lines]

    Renato Amoroso: I pedaled as fast as I could... as if I were escaping from longing, from innocence, from her. Time has passed, and I have loved many women. And as they've held me close... and asked if I will remember them I've said, "Yes, I will remember you." But the only one I've never forgotten is the one who never asked... Malena.