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Watching the movie "Malena" on weekends (Chinese translation "Marina" or "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily") , The word flashed in my mind after reading it-the mob!
The story is very simple. It is about a beautiful woman (Malena) in a small town in Sicily, Italy, and the men and women of the whole town during World War II. The protagonist Malena is a super beautiful woman in the town, who is routinely exposed to the obscenity and jealousy of the townsfolk; so her husband went to war and died in battle, her father was blown to death after severing the relationship, and was extremely deprived of materials. Under the attack of Die, under the bombardment of jealousy, she was pushed step by step from the decent lady into the shameless quagmire of licentiousness. The story is described through the eyes of a little boy in the town, full of traces of existential stream of consciousness.
The story begins in the context of Mussolini's declaration of war on Britain and France, and the whole town is full of Nazi fanatical declarations. The beautiful woman Malena's husband is an officer, so he went to the front. The men in the whole town regarded Malena as their dream lover, and the women were full of jealousy, but life was still relatively peaceful.
Later, news of Malena's husband's death came from the front lines. The news tore through the calm clouds above Malena like lightning. Although she rarely contacted others except for visiting her father frequently, rumors about her affair continued to circulate everywhere.
Things continued to develop (in fact, only time has developed, the rumors have developed, and Malena's life has not changed), Malena's father also believed those rumors to be true, cut off contact with his daughter, and locked himself at home from seeing people. So things really developed. The lascivious people in the town saw the opportunity and started to take action, perhaps psychologically extremely lonely, Malena accepted an individual date. Although this kind of dating is a simple dinner at home, it still pushes things forward. As a result, a woman went to court to accuse Malena of destroying her family.
This accusation is the beginning of a nightmare for Malena! In helplessness, she hired a lawyer to win this fictitious lawsuit; but the lawyer took the opportunity to rape her. Then, in the extreme scarcity caused by the war, Malena was repeatedly humiliated because of her survival.
Finally, one day, the war took away another relative of Malena, his father, and destroyed her last line of self-esteem. Thus, Malena began to degenerate and became a prostitute. Therefore, the men flattered, and the women were content, saying like a prophet: Look, I knew she was such a shameless woman!
The war continued to develop, and the story continued to develop. Finally, the American chariot drove into the town and the war ended. At the same time, the tragedy of Malena did not end. On the contrary, it developed to a climax. On the same day that the American tank drove into the town, the women in the town felt that there was a chance for revenge, so they dragged Malena onto the street on the grounds that they accompany the German officer to sleep, and beat him up. The humiliated Malena, in pain, let out a hysterical cry to heaven!
Malena was forced to leave the town. But the story has changed dramatically. Her husband was not dead, but just injured and broke an arm. Now the war is over and he is back! At this time, the small town was like a thief with a guilty conscience and met justice, and collectively fell silent.
Finally, Malena's husband found his wife under the guidance of the little boy who witnessed the whole story, and returned to the town again. The residents of the town also accepted them again and reconciled with a "Good morning, madam". The story ended in this way, as if.
Looking at the whole story, what did you think of? At first, I thought of the old lesson of "all-mouthed gold". Indeed, the cause of Malena's tragedy is composed of two parts: the war background outside the town (husband killed in battle, father killed, material deprivation), and internal townspeople's attacks (especially rumors). The wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it!
But combined with some other details in the story, I changed this view. A very ironic comparison is: when Mussolini just announced the declaration of war on Britain and France, the town was full of fanatical belligerence. You can see it in China); this is in sharp contrast to the scene where the whole town welcomes the American army to take over the town after the defeat of Italy. Why? Don't tell me this is because of the deceit of the government. This is only an external cause, the real reason is that people's brain thinking ability is basically equal to their big feet thinking ability in this respect! There is no foresight, no assertiveness, and the most terrible thing is that there is no basic judgment, and this is really the basis of "the winner is the king, the loser is the invader"! Truth is in the hands of a few people. The thinking ability of most people is only limited to their own interests, but also short-term self-interests.
Regardless of the story of Malena, there are many similar stories in history, including Wallace in the famous movie "Brave Heart", and famous Chinese historical figures Qi Jiguang and Yuan Chonghuan. Thinking of the French philosopher Gustave Le Pen named "the mob" for his famous work on social psychology, I can't help but feel very happy.
The director of this article is the famous Italian director Gisep Tonato. He also has a famous film called "The Pianist on the Sea" which is also a classic.
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