From the corpses excavated in Pompeii

Eloy 2022-04-09 08:01:02

Alexander and his wife had just confessed to their divorce, and the couple were enthusiastically invited to watch the burial, which was handled brilliantly, creating a mysterious connection between the hugging corpse of the couple and the emotional state of the Alexander couple. Life is too fragile, and love has lost to it, who can know that the couple who embraced the dead are truly in love? Perhaps it is also in the constant compromise and concession, but death has achieved their love and made it eternal. So, must the embrace and reconciliation between the Alexander couple in front of God at the end of the film be because of love? It’s just the fear of getting lost again, the fear of being empty again, and it’s just praying for a little warmth from the other party when there is nowhere to warm up. After all, death is everywhere here, and new life (children) is needed to make up for the broken emotions. Thus, through the eyes of the heroine, we can see the increase in the number of babies and pregnant women in the streets after the war. It can be said that the emotional wounds of an entire nation are attempted to be healed by the infant.

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  • Alfreda 2022-04-09 09:01:09

    [Beijing Film Festival Screening] Reflects the insignificance of human beings through religion, history, nature, etc., and examines the cracks in the relationship between husband and wife. Mediocre than imagined. The ending sucks. It's a bit like Woody Allen's "Love in Rome", but it's actually a tourist scene. Not sure why Martin Scorsese likes this movie.

  • Davonte 2022-04-20 09:02:55

    Rossellini's trip to Naples, the sympathy between the personal ego and the historical space-time & macro environment. The relationship between husband and wife gradually estranged and broke down as the tour progressed. Group portraits of pregnant women, prams and couples as they drive on the streets of Naples, visit the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, and experience the "miracle" of Mount Vesuvius (a single cigarette or a single puff can cause widespread gas surges around you) overflowing, which also fits the motif of the connection between man and the universe), appreciate the catacombs, witness the excavation of bones in the ancient city of Pompeii, and encounter the frenzy of the street icon parade. The sudden reversal of the ending from the decisive separation to the embrace and confession is more unexpected, like a miracle, but I don't know how long it will last. The overall shooting is loose and ambiguous, with indifference, accident, and emotional volcanic eruption moments, which to a certain extent also foreshadows Antonioni's subsequent works. (8.5/10)

Journey to Italy quotes

  • Katherine Joyce: This is the first time that we've been really alone ever since we married.

    Alex Joyce: Yes, I suppose it is.

  • [first lines]

    Alex Joyce: Where are we?

    Katherine Joyce: Oh, I don't know exactly.