A simple and somewhat unconventional story: During the war, an ordinary town in Sicily, an intoxicating widow, became the object of all men’s fantasy and all wives’ curses, living in the haze of desire and jealousy, and finally Having to lose her life choice, she was driven out of the town after the war. When the crippled husband came back to look for her, everyone just laughed, only "I"-a ignorant teenager gave him the direction to look for, because only "I" is the one who truly loves Malena, and only "I" .
This is one of the trilogy of searching for Italian humanities director Giuseppe Tornatore. The English translation is "Marina" and the translation is "True Love With Me". I think it is not as good as the Chinese title "The Beauty of Sicily" "Legend" reads like a dusty past, which is memorable and can't bear to mention it.
The biggest feature of the film is to show the world from the perspective of the teenager Retona. The beautiful Malena is the goddess of his adolescence and the beginning of his sexual consciousness. Like all the men in the town, he couldn't help himself for his beauty. Every day after school, I ran to the side of the road, just waiting for the graceful Malena to walk past him, and every evening, climbing up the high roof, just to see Malena dancing alone in the living room. . All he can do is wait, pay attention and fantasize, so pure. I like that scene very much: Retona is lying on the bed, putting the stolen Malena's panties on his face, masturbating with emotion. Maybe because he is a child, maybe because we can understand the emotional reality, in short, this way of expression does not make people feel obscene at all. On the contrary, the steel wire bed creaks like music, and the quilt undulates rhythmically like waves. You can almost imagine the expression on the face of the teenager, and the whole room is full of happy factors. That kind of happiness has nothing to do with the way of masturbation itself, but a pure heart wakes up from sleep and releases its own love, clean, pure, and extremely happy... In contrast, he and Malena soon When really close contact, his heart is very painful. Because at that moment, Retona, who was brought to the brothel by his father to promote his growth, faced the guidance of the dream lover who had cut off his hair and struggled, and he had nothing but distress, fear and sorrow. Just like you love the white snow in winter, but like many people, you leave black footprints on it. This is full of fateful colors. I think the director deliberately arranged this contrast, let us see that love and beauty are flowers blooming on the other side, and Retona's growth also occurs in each of us: love is like an illusion in adolescence. Pure and beautiful, but unable to grow up. However, from any angle, it was Malena who helped the teenager grow into a man, which in itself was warm.
Of course, the director's intention is not only to describe the process of a teenager's awakening of sexual consciousness, but also to present human weakness, desire and jealousy in reality. This is the reason why love and beauty cannot be reached.
In the manic town, Malena is always quiet. People love her because of her beauty (to be precise, the so-called love is just an excuse for desire), and people hate her because of her beauty. Throughout the film, expectation is intertwined with insult, slander and worship. Women call her a slut, but they are full of envy for her beauty. Men say how coquettish she is, but they actually want her, even if they look at her. Beauty ignited the fire of desire and jealousy, and became an obstacle to her life. Winning lawsuits, obtaining food, and even the most basic right to survival must all come at the expense of the body. She persisted and fought, but in the end, when her husband died, and even the deaf old father didn't believe in her chastity, how did she live by will? Cut off the rich and lush long black hair and apply a thick powder on the face. The eyes are still quiet, but it must be extremely painful at that moment. She represents you to give up all persistence and belief, give up yourself, give up the last remaining hope in the world. Is it destined to be alone and miserable because of beauty? No, because the weakness of human nature is destined to be unrooted in the world.
The war ended and the prostitutes who had served the Germans were driven out of the town. Women can finally use the most vicious language to abuse this woman who makes them both envious and jealous. They beat her and tear her clothes, as if to tear the beauty to pieces at once, while the men are silent, regretting or regretting. , Are all the same cold, no one has really loved her and truly understood her beauty, except for that boy, and her husband who has not sacrificed. At this moment, Malena finally cried, did not struggle, just hugged herself tightly with her arms, crying heartbreakingly. I think it's not just because of injury and pain, but also an explosion of depression for a long time. She has been quiet for too long, quietly enduring all the insults and blasphemy brought about by her flowery face. She finally cried, washing all the wounds with her tears, proving that she was still alive.
Many years later, Malena returned to the small town with his surviving but disabled husband. At this time, what people saw was not the sultry beautiful young woman back then, but an ordinary middle-aged woman. The body is a little bloated, the clothes and hairstyles are very simple, carrying a basket to buy things in the market. Every woman looked at her in surprise, and then something unthinkable happened: they began to talk to her cordially, and even sent her something enthusiastically, taking her arms, like a great friend... we don’t have to think about it. The reason for this, in short, the director arranged for such an ending to be a touch of warm pain, an interweaving of human darkness and kindness. It is not the other shore that arrived, but the voyage has been abandoned. In the end, Malena disappeared from the back on the way home, at the end of the screen, the quiet eyes and elegant gait remained unchanged. She is still beautiful. Just as the old boy would recall: "In the days to come, I have been with many women, but the one I love the most is Malena." Love will last forever.
I watched this film two years ago and I have never revisited it. It seems that after time has passed, I have a little bit of precipitation in my heart. In the past few days, I always think of Malena's eyes, so I have a lot of emotions about this movie. It is strange to think about it, Hollywood does not lack beautiful women: Winona Ryder's purity, Julia Roberts's brightness, Angelina Jolie's wildness, Jennifer Lopez's sexy...but there is no one. Can play Marlena, except for the Italian model actress. I have carefully looked at many photos of Monica Belluzzi, and it can be said that no female celebrity dares to expose her body like her, without worrying about the pictures becoming pornographic. Indeed, in all the photos, her eyes are clean and the water is like lake, making her expression a little serious. She can show her beauty so frankly, and face the world frankly with her eyes, which makes you have to believe. She is pure in heart. Her beauty is not only sexy, but also the calmness to bear this sexy. From the unnamed performance in "The Four Hundred Years of Vampire", to the "Marlena" that made her popular, to the later controversial "Irrevocable", in almost all films, Monica will have nudity. Or acting passionately, but no one said she is a pornographic actress. This is what makes her unique. The purity of a person has nothing to do with the body. I think this is what Malena is trying to interpret, which is why Tornatore only glanced at Monica and confirmed that she was the heroine. Her beauty is like a dream in the morning, so close and so far away.
"The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" is neither beautiful nor romantic. It is just like a dusty past. I can’t bear to mention it and it’s memorable. I also put Marlena in my heart like that young boy, and then I look to the other side, where there is still A face that blooms like a flower...
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