In that paradise from Lazzaro, there is nothing wrong with hungry wolves that can eat people. If you smell like a good person, the wolf might just walk away.
This is the story Antonia tells when she leaves the village.
Then the story cuts to modern civilization, and I've been waiting for the node where the wolf metaphor is revealed. until the last scene.
Lazzaro, a man who suddenly broke into modern civilization from the rural order of his hideaway. He went into the bank and asked if they could return the confiscated money to the family that once ruled them in the village where he lived. The onlookers were all terrified, because in the context of human society, his behavior implied the plot environment of robbing a bank. They asked him if he had a weapon in his pocket, and the innocent boy admitted without hesitation with his eyes open. At this point, Lazzaro's behavior perfectly constitutes the definition of a robber barbarian in a civilized society. So the onlookers rushed up, because we can kill you as a matter of course. In the rules of human society, the justice of their actions has been established.
The beautiful boy fell down with blood all over his face, and the weapon that fell out of his pocket was the slingshot that he kept for his childhood friend.
In the social law of wolf life, eating people when hungry is a natural rationale. And when wolves broke into human society, of course it became barbaric. People take it for granted that they can kill a man-eating wolf.
The oil painting and religious attributes of the film
1. In that scene in the church, the music left the keys, and the nun said to close the door and not let the music fly out. When something absurd happens, but the people in the play treat it as usual, there is no surprise we expected, a beautiful scene of magical realism.
2. The first half of the Italian countryside always reminds me of the peasants in the Dutch countryside written by Van Gogh. In addition to Lazzaro, this is a beautiful boy, and his figure is so healthy and glowing with the light of European summer. The aesthetic sense of oil painting in the whole film is the skill of the female director.
Finally, I have a fallacy about the "perceived balance of happiness"
We are satisfied and prosperous by modern civilization, but we are awakened by modern civilization and live in spiritual pain.
Therefore, I always have a conjecture of "perceived happiness balance": no matter what era or country you live in, or what your family background is, in fact, the happiness that a person can experience in a lifetime is always balance. This is God's greatest justice.
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