Singing is the highest expression of human emotion-----Mons.Luigi Giussani
This short review of the Italian film that won the European award and participated in the Oscar competition that year was released three months late. Now that I have the opportunity to watch it twice, I have a little courage to write something, and it is not in vain. The high degree of completion of the film itself has long been popular in Europe and is recommended as a must-see on Mother's Day. For me, the male protagonist is familiar with Valerio Mustandre, who also starred in "Perfect Stranger". Ya, of course he also made a cameo in the "Battle of Italy (The Tragic Aguilar)" which I liked, where he plays the adult Bruno, being talked about, humiliated and even physically attacked both inside and outside the family for his mother from childhood to youth As a result, he became increasingly unable to experience the present moment and became an addict who relied on drugs to numb himself. Playing her twilight mother is even more of a backing. As early as in "Italian Divorce", the male protagonist played by Mastroianni fell madly in love with her character, so I remember this mildew in the 1960s. Mouthface - Stefania Sandrelli, also saw in this 2010 film the dedication of European female actors to the art of cinema at all ages.
It is easy to see the core of this film as the mother protecting her children to the greatest extent possible and inspiring her children with an optimistic attitude in the face of adversity in life, and after suffering from a terminal illness, she still has an optimistic attitude and mingles with the doctors, nurses and patients in the hospital. It is indeed a mother's character. The mother has the most perfect temperament and appearance of women in the casting of her children and teenagers, so she won the "Summer Mom" in the local beauty pageant halftime show, thus having the foundation of "slut humiliation", which made the young Bruno feel shameless , This lack of face was brought into full play by her husband's mania, which gave Bruno the seeds of prejudice in his heart forever. If I look at the editing, this film is a film from Bruno's perspective. Most of the mother's plays are from Bruno's perspective, and from his perspective, he witnesses the injury of his mother and closes himself as a defense of self-dignity. Rejecting the presence of her mother in her life.
To be sure, rejection is always accompanied by escape, and some things can never be avoided, so how to face the trauma caused by this escape? That is, the film shows Bruno witnessing his mother's three singing scenes. Two of them are when they are kicked out of the house after being raped by their father, and after their mother is beaten and humiliated by a playboy. In order to create the most optimistic situation for their children, their mothers Lie and invited everyone to sing together; of course, the last singing was when the mother was about to die, her praise for life and the last blessing to her children, still this "La Prima Cosa Bella".
The cross-editing of Bruno's perspective basically happened when he returned to his hometown of Livorno to visit his mother when he had a short time. During this period, he still cared about how others looked at him when he was with his mother, and complained to himself, "Why am I so unhappy?" ”, just like as Pilgrimage Thirteen Laney, the relationship with the self is broken, this broken, love-hate intertwined, the memory of writing sad poems in his youth after his return home, and the reality of his mother once again expressing the relationship with everyone. Repaired in reconciliation and love, Bruno rejects the emergence of prejudice and confronts the experience of the moment. He gave up his mother's unfinished Dullen dipping water and listened to his mother's words to swim with his girlfriend on the coast of Livorno, yes, he swam again.
Ps: The background music of the deputy mayor's oath to witness his mother's final remarriage is "Country Knight Interlude".
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