In the 1950s, Italian director Fellini independently filmed the "Lonely Trilogy". These three films showed the tragic fate of the lower-class people. They captured the hearts of the characters in subtleties, and showed the characters' repressed inner world vividly and vividly. Cruel and invisible, it reaches the softest depths of the audience's heart. "The Great Road" is the first of a trilogy that focuses on an ordinary girl's difficult life and her poignant love.
Road, a noun that gives people infinite reverie. For Jesomina, living on the road with Zangbano is just wandering around and performing arts. The whole world only has hometown and other places, and there is only desolation everywhere. Jesomina was an ordinary peasant girl who was sold by her mother to Zangba Nuo, who was a performer. Tsambano was very rough with her, but she gradually became dependent on Tsambano. Later, the two joined the acrobatic troupe together and met Mato, a high-altitude walking artist. He was very kind to Jesomina and taught her a lot of things, and Jesomina was very grateful to him. But Tsambano and Mato had been enemies since childhood, and they often clashed with him, and finally missed him and killed him. Jesomina was so sad that she couldn't forgive Zombano, and eventually Zombano left her. A few years later, Zombano heard the news of the girl's death and remembered all her good things, but it was too late to regret it.
It's not a complicated story, and it can't even be classified as a romance, because romance is either warm or entangled, about loyalty and betrayal. However, for people at the bottom of society, when their survival is challenged, love becomes dispensable. But in this realistic movie, love was like a warm dim yellow light, trying to illuminate the cold and dark life of the two of them. Unfortunately, good things always fade away too quickly. The illusory love is quickly disillusioned like the foam on the sea.
In the film, Jesomina is a pure girl, she thought that as long as she followed him, treated him well and lived with him, they were husband and wife. But the savage Zangba Nuo has never experienced this sincerity. He just treats her as an idiot who doesn't understand anything. His world is only himself. in exchange for the right to continue living. So, Jesomina was miserable and confused, and she had tried to escape.
When Zombano was put in prison for beating Mato, she finally broke down and told Mato that she was helpless and that she didn't know what she could do in this world. Mato said to him that anything God made is useful, such as this small stone, no other stone can replace it, just like no one can stand Zombaano except you. At that moment, there was hope in her eyes. Yes, except for her, no one can walk the path of life with Zombaano, he is so lonely. She suddenly understood the whole meaning of her and her love, which is to change his life, to help him grow old together, and to make him no longer alone. When Tsambano came out of the police station, she greeted him like a wife and draped her clothes over him, a subtle gesture that reflected her quiet determination.
It's a pity that the savage didn't cherish it. He indulged his rough temper and accidentally killed the only man who truly treated Jesomina, and shattered a girl's last hope. Jesomina's fragile nerves collapsed, she became delirious, and kept reminding him of his sins, but she was still saying, "I'm gone and you're alone." "I can live by myself, I want Earn money and live." Zombaano is not a bad person, he once felt guilty, but his heart was too numb and stupid, to make a living, he threw Jessomena in the snow, and his soul was not obtained because of love after all Redemption, he returned to the life of tasting bitterness alone.
Years later, when he tasted the warmth and coldness of the world, he returned to the seaside where Jesomina was abandoned, and when he heard the news of her death, he fell on the beach by the sea and wept bitterly. That scene was heart-wrenching. He finally understands that God will not send another angel, he can only walk the lonely road of life alone, and the world will no longer have a woman who is infatuated with him like Jesomina.
"The Road" won the 29th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. This film is different from traditional neo-realism works. Fellini did not stay on the surface, but magnified a woman's inner feelings to the extreme, depicting a strong and persistent A kind-hearted female figure. Love and death are the eternal themes of literature and art, but the love in this film is unspeakable, because there has never been a relationship between the two. Some are just a woman's infatuation, her affection is reflected in every detail, her eyes are always flashing with anxiety, pity, confusion, and firmness, so real and vivid, so catchy.
The vast road, where is life going? In this drifting background, Fellini showed a kind of beauty in the world, but the disappearance of this beauty in the cruel reality is sad. Simple love is the only warm tone in this movie, but after all, they cannot escape their ruthless fate, and they are still alone.
If you haven't been moved by a movie in a long time, you can watch Fellini's early film, which can make you see the smallness and greatness of love.
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