The whole movie is unfolded from the perspective of a young Renardo. This is a special era. The flames of war are licking everyone's heart. Adult men respond to the call and go to the battlefield. Restless. Marina is a special woman, and her special performance lies in her stunning beauty. The eyes and attitudes of people in the town are all provocative and jealous. This kind of beauty kills not only men, but also women. Her beauty arouses the desire of every man, and also arouses every man A woman's jealousy. It's just that Marina at the beginning of the film is aloof and out of reach, and she seems to be transformed into a beautiful symbol. Her beauty also made Leonardo fall in love with him. The whole story seems to be the reminiscence and self-narration of Reynardo as an adult. His obsession with Marina is almost to the point of going crazy, and his emotions are completely dominated by Marlina without knowing it. For an adolescent boy, physical desires are difficult to suppress, so Marina is also an object of sexual enlightenment for Reynardo.
The whole text runs through two main lines, one is the life of Marina, and the other is the growth of the teenager Renardo. These two lines seem to be parallel, but many of the living conditions of Marina are drawn by Reynardo. This kind of interlude makes the narrative of the whole film complicated but not chaotic, clear and logical. On the one hand, the teenager Renardo lived a life of lustful lust for Marina who was almost a saint; On the one hand, Marina lives in pain because of her beauty and her husband's participation in the war. Finally, bad news came that Marina's husband was killed on the battlefield. In this way, in the eyes of the town people, especially the town men, Marina has changed from being out of reach to a stunner that everyone is trying to get. Therefore, no matter where Marina's footsteps go, it is filled with a man's naked desire, which is very humiliating for a chaste woman. The women in the town were in a state of panic and dissatisfaction with themselves, and jealousy of Marina's beauty. Some gossip was heard, and people's eyes began to change, from respect to contempt. Black and white are often reversed. The so-called "three people become tigers". Under such slander, Marina became the representative of the small town slut, her living allowance was cancelled, and her father was also angry. Just imagine how heavy this series of blows is for a young and beautiful single woman who is unable to resist. She still abides by her chastity at first, but she has no money to survive, and her life is so pressing that she eventually becomes a man's plaything, and even ordinary necessities such as bread and sugar, she has to rely on and Small vendors go to bed to get it. At this time, Marina, all she had left was a beautiful face, and this face was one of the roots of her unfortunate life. In the end, Marina even became a German sex slave. The sense of oppression the Germans brought to the locals made Marina regain some of her former pride, but this pride was already distorted This is a kind of self-defeating and self-destruction under despair, which shows that his heart has long since become ashes. At this time, her beauty and her red hair have become a kind of depraved sin. The people in the town, who are afraid and hate her, have an extremely contemptuous attitude towards her. come out. And all of this, only the young Renardo knew the truth. He was full of sympathy for what happened to Marina, and he hated every man who took the opportunity to possess her. The Marina in his heart is still chaste and beautiful. However, for a child, understanding and believing in Marina is meaningless. Although he has imagined himself as a knight who saved Marlina many times, However, everything was an illusory bubble after all, and he still couldn't change the tragic fate of Marina.
The war was over, the Germans were defeated, and the Germans fled from Sicily. Only Marina was left to be the target of public criticism. The women dragged her out of the house, threw her on the street, tore her clothes, beat her, cut her hair, and vented their anger and jealousy on such a powerless woman. All beauty has vanished in this moment. Some of the men looked away, daring not to look at the woman who used to be the object of their lust, for fear of being contaminated with unnecessary right and wrong; more of them watched this scene with a sideways, indifferent expression. Nightmarish punishment. This attitude was completely different from their previous attitude towards Marina. Marina chose to leave, and she stepped on the train without the slightest nostalgia. However, Renardo, who was outside the carriage, was deeply in love with her—such a beautiful and miserable woman.
I thought the story was over here, everything had been explained, and tomorrow has not yet come. However, the director seems to have to dig further into human nature. Marina's husband, Li Nuo, came back dramatically. He didn't die, he just lost an arm. He went home with great enthusiasm to reunite with his wife, but things were different, no one was willing to tell him Marlene's story, everyone hid the faces of their perpetrators, and only vaguely revealed Marlene Na's infidelity. This kind of evil of human nature has been shown vividly at this moment in the movie. Only Renardo, a grown-up boy, had gotten rid of his original libidinal desire for Marina, but he still respected, or in other words, still loved Marina in his heart—a love like a saint. He told Li Nuo's story about Marina in the form of a letter. Li Nuo embarks on a journey to find his wife. At this moment, another ending appeared. The film doesn't stop here, it continues the story of Marina — who is back in Sicily — with her husband, Reno. This is people's eyes, there is already a kind of fear and caution, the fear of what they have done. At this time, the evil of human nature has come to an end, and everyone is waiting for their own judgment in panic. Only Leonardo, this kind young man, his eyes were full of joy and relief. However, contrary to everyone's expectations, Marina did not choose revenge, her serious expression showed a kind of dignity, an unshakable dignity of her own personality. This kind of dignity made the people in the town amazed. They greeted her carefully, as if nothing had happened, kind and unfamiliar. Marina forgave everyone. At this time, her beauty has been sublimated from the initial glamorous appearance to a kind of perfection and beauty of the human heart. The director stopped the camera here.
The storytelling of this film is very clever. Director Giuseppe Tornatore seldom described her life from the perspective of Marina, but more revealing her living state with the peeping and attention of the teenager Renardo, supplemented by the small town people. The vision and attitude to express the whole process of a woman's destruction and rebirth. It also shows the process of a teenager from the beginning of love to maturity. It is such a narrative method that makes the film more profound and reveals human nature more thoroughly. The beauty of "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" is cruel and humble, but also great and hopeful.
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