There is a force called Nikolai

Rhea 2022-03-24 09:03:06

Compared to Madio, Nicola is gentle. Not only is he slow, but he is also petite. Madio's eyes were full of determination and anger, Nikolai's eyes were full of love.
Madio couldn't quarrel with his eldest sister for more than three sentences, and Nicola's wife Julia was treated the same. Because they are always right persons. The world must operate according to its own laws. He couldn't keep him from the joy of the family playing cards around the table on Christmas Eve. Two calls to Mirella could have saved him. He must have wanted to save himself before he jumped. This jump reminded me of the scene in "Sister Ada". It turns out that people who really want to commit suicide don't stay on the roof for so long, they just walk there like they are going out.
Nicola's world is sympathy. Nicola doesn't understand them, but he loves them, he thinks love is freedom, so he opens that door twice, the first time to let his wife go, the second time to let Madio go. But is freedom death? Nikolai's death made him decide to send his wife to prison. He is tolerant, so gentle but the one who really has the power to save Zoe, the one who stayed with his mother when his father and Madio died, the one who raised his daughter, and the one who waited for Julia. People first, then ideals. He loves the people around him, maybe he doesn't understand why Madio is angry, why his wife is crying at night, why Zola is afraid to face the world, but he gives them the freedom to do so without restricting it. But I'll be there whenever you need me.
There is only right and wrong in Madio's world. Advocating rules, he should be the creator to be satisfied. For Zola, he is not sympathetic but right or wrong, and when he is unable to save Zola, he is angry. The same goes for being a policeman, because the military and the police station are the places with the strictest rules, and it is his dream to follow the rules in everything. There is no tolerance for dogfly camps nor for grey areas.
Julia's world is ideal. In order to overthrow the old world, he gave up his husband and daughter, but in the end he found it was just a pawn.
I watched this movie before I was 25 years old, and I stayed up all night and got drunk before I was 25 years old. Goodbye, the best of my youth. Hello, my brilliant life.

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The Best of Youth quotes

  • Sicilian Commissario: What were you looking for, joining the Police?

    Matteo Carati: I wanted some rules.

    Sicilian Commissario: And what do you do, with these rules?

    Matteo Carati: I apply them

  • Andrea Utano: I watch the midnight sun sink towards the horizon, then it stops and doesn't enter the sea. I think of my father, mother, and you, how you've always said that everything is beautiful. I think you were right. Everything is truly beautiful.