The English translation of the film is The best of youth, however I prefer the Chinese translation of "A Splendid Life". The film runs from 1966 to 2003, with Italian history interspersed, but I don't think it's a purely epic film, its focus should be on life. Mateo and Nicola are brothers. Some people say that Mateo is perfect in ideal, while Nicola is perfect in reality, which is quite agreeable. Matteo asked Zoe how I was, and Zoe replied, crazy. And Julia said that Nikolai was liked by young and old alike. Matteo has a "weird" personality, has a short temper, and is a fanatical pursuit of freedom, but he likes books as his company. It seems that the quiet library is his home. He resisted the rigid examiner and failed the exam. He wanted to get Zuozhen out, but was still taken back to the mental hospital. He joined the police force and wanted to be an enforcer of discipline, but in reality he still ran into walls everywhere. He doesn't want to be "investigated" and likes to be alone. He may be slightly dissatisfied with his mother, because he thinks that her mother loves her students more than herself (maybe she lacked love as a child). He's not ignorant of his own incompatibility with society, because he says to Melalie that he's Nikolai. Finally, after muttering "Happy New Year", he rolled off the balcony. Nikolai is gentle, tough, and the examiner gave him an A for being compassionate. He wants to rescue a mentally ill patient suffering from electric shocks like Zojin, so he studies psychiatry and eventually brings those sanctimonious doctors to court. He often maintains his relationship with his surroundings with love and is full of tenderness towards others. In the face of Matteo's death, he said that he advocated freedom and that anyone had the right to live their own life, but the price of freedom was death, so he decided to stop Julia and sent her to prison. In the end, she regained love after her daughter got married.
I think Julia has kept herself closed, she was radical in her thinking, abandoned Nikolai and her daughter to join the Left-wing Red Brigade Revolutionary Terrorist Organization (surprisingly, her family has a standard photo of Mao Zedong). Nikolai tried her best to save her and proposed to her, but she didn't open her heart. She also returned the sheet music that Nikolai sent her. I thought at the time that she would never go back. The sunglasses were later removed at the request of the daughter, but they were put back on immediately after the daughter left. Although Zuozhen is a psychopath, she represents innocence and tenderness. During that trip, she had a sincere look in Matteo's eyes. The trauma she suffered can only be slowly healed with time.
The movie is full of love and tenderness, and often reconciles because of love even after a quarrel. Nikolai's father casually told Nikolai's mother when playing cards that because there are too few married people, I decided to remarry, and I want to marry you. Nicola's mother was emotionally out of control when she hugged Matteo's book after his death. The final scene of Nikolai and Melalie on the country lane is amazing.
For the dissatisfaction with reality, the radical does not solve the problem, but the moderate executor changes from the bits and pieces around him. Nikolai said when he was young: How beautiful is everything in front of you! ! ! Later, his sister asked him if he still agreed, and he said he did not agree with the three exclamation marks. I suddenly thought of a sentence, so similar: life is not beautiful, but it is worth fighting for. I have always held the belief that most of us cannot be as brave as xiaobo liu when it comes to politics, although he is worthy of awe. But we should never give up on life, crawling forward, and pursuing beauty is always our dream. This unrepentant idealism should start small around us, and there must be love in our actions to prevent us from destroying humanity under the guise of something. This idealism seems quite romantic, but in fact it is not at all. It is necessary to constantly struggle with the temptation of interests and peace of mind, and stride forward under the oppression of reality and the support of ideals, but I hope that I can still maintain the independence of my personality. , will look at the material that is eager to be lighter. Among them, Nicholas read to his nephew: He never gave up his faith, even on the edge of struggle. Faith comes from his understanding of people and things. He continued to say to himself, I must have great courage to face him. still clear...
Ps: The few words said by Nikolai's examiner in the movie seem to be addressed to us, and they are appropriate when we think about it.
View more about The Best of Youth reviews
