In 1948, Ingrid Bergman, the heroine of "Casablanca", was deeply moved by Rossellini's war trilogy "Rome, Undefended City", and wrote him a letter expressing her hope Rossellini was also moved by the cooperation. Two years later, the two fell in love while filming "Love on the Edge of a Volcano" together. Bergman gave birth to a son to Rossellini. Bergman's pure and virtuous image was destroyed, and public opinion was in an uproar. Soon, Bergman divorced her husband and married Rossellini. The period that followed was known as Rossellini's "Ingrid Bergman era". But the career of the two did not go further because of this. On the contrary, they were boycotted by the film industry led by Hollywood. Most of the films they collaborated on later were well-known in the industry but difficult to meet with the audience. On the whole, the works of this period are far less well-received than those of other periods. This film is a work of this period. In 2013, "Sight and Sound" magazine invited 846 film critics to participate in the voting, and each person selected the top ten film history in their hearts. After the votes are aggregated, the top 50 films of all time are drawn. The film tops the Top 50 #41, the film was also selected as one of the "Cinebooks" top ten of the year. The story of this film is about a trip in Italy of a middle-class couple after the war, showing the ecology of the European people after the war through the collision of each other's feelings. The hero of the story likes to mess with flowers, and the heroine likes to be sad. During this journey, the hero and heroine went their separate ways because of emotional discord. But after this unpleasant trip to Italy, as time went on, the two gradually realized that time is fleeting, life is short, and love is not eternal, and they need to compromise and maintain each other. Through the emotional changes of the man and woman, Rossellini showed us the mental outlook of ordinary people in post-war Europe, revealing a faint sadness. Looking at the whole film, it cannot be absolutely said that the emotional focus of this story is marriage. I think Rossellini seems to have consciously focused his emotional focus on the point of "war". From the beginning to the end of the whole film, the lens is full of people's negative, confused and decadent attitude towards life after the war. Rossellini used the emotional changes of the couple to show the emotional changes of ordinary people in Europe after the war. From what they saw during their travels, as well as their own emotional fluctuations, they reflected the ideology and ideology of the entire Europe. The director did not use formalism to deliberately exaggerate people's emotional changes, but implied such changes in "marriage changes". From the branches of the lovers' love, we can see a kind of spiritual outlook in Europe after World War II. The male protagonist represents such a type of person. Look at the status quo objectively, and don’t want to actively devote your energy to changing the status quo. The male protagonist's approach to the marriage change is to "escape". Because of some disagreements with the female protagonist, the male protagonist suddenly disappeared without a trace one morning. He's looking for fun just to escape the status quo, not really wanting to run and have fun. This is very obvious when the male host faces the prostitute. On the surface, he is flirting, but in essence, he also cares about the heroine. Such people have experienced war and suffered the trauma of war, but they do not want to change anything, but choose to escape, no matter how much they care about the status quo in Europe. In the film, when the heroine is facing the marriage change, she tries hard to act as if nothing happened. She knows that she is not happy enough, but she tries to pretend to be very beautiful. What we care about is not the "tour" of the hero, but the "tour" of the heroine, and what she sees shows us the current situation in Europe after the war. The natural landscape is deserted, with decadence, rows of skeletons placed somewhere, quiet and sad. When the camera looks from the heroine's point of view, we really feel the faint sadness. It's not just about the split between the hero and heroine love, and more about the emotional rift across Europe. Facing the corpses on display and the exhumed corpses, the heroine almost burst into tears. She therefore thought that time was short, that love could not last forever, that she saw that love finally lost to life, and that she saw everything she could not accept. If a nation does not experience war, it will not understand the pain of war. If a person does not know death, he cannot figure out the thickness of life, and he does not know how precious what he has now. There is a line in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", what we can touch is not forever. Everything that can be grasped now cannot be seen forever. When you can be together, please don't separate easily. Suddenly I thought of a poem by Li Bai. "Heaven and earth are the reversal journey of all things; time is the passer-by of a hundred generations. And floating life is like a dream, how much joy is there?"
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