The soundtrack of Paradise Cinema is quite endearing and has a great sense of picture. Whenever the main melody sounds, the fragments of life are like being placed in a film, frozen, and flashed one by one.
The hero Toto in the movie lost his father because of the war since he was a child, but because he was too young, he didn't feel much about the tragedy of losing his father when he was young, and he didn't even understand the cry of his mother when she received the bad news. Since childhood, he played movies with his kind and funny uncle Alfredo. For Toto, Alfredo is also a father and a friend, and he gradually fell in love with the job of playing movies. He grew up with light and shadow and experienced everything a boy should experience. Studying and going to school, serving in the military, falling in love with a girl, having a sweet time, and hesitating for love, are no strangers, even a little dull. Until one day, Alfredo shook Toto's shoulder excitedly and told him that you are still young, you should go out, the world is yours, don't come back, never come back. So toto really left and never came back.
Thirty years have passed, until I received a call from my mother from Sicily to learn the news of Alfredo's death, and Toto, who had already made a name for himself, did not return to his hometown. Back at the home that I hadn’t set foot in for 30 years, I saw my mother decorating her house the same as when she left, looking at the projector and film on the table, looking at the old photos on the wall that recorded her one by one, With Alfredo holding his own, looking at Alfredo's honest and kind face, the music sounded just right, an infinite picture must emerge in Toto's heart, and the audience was deeply moved at this moment.
A good life-themed movie doesn't need to explain too much, and just needs to objectively present what should be shown to the audience. There is no need to talk about what the male protagonist has experienced in the past 30 years, and there is no need to tell everyone how successful he is now, because in the film-like life review, all these need not be said. "Life is different from a movie. Life is... a lot harder."
It is said that there is also a director's cut version of the film, which adds a lot of plots, including the fact that the hero finally meets the heroine again at the end, the truth is revealed, and the misunderstanding is resolved. It must be that the director wants to give an explanation to the fans who are asking the truth. The original plot is enough. Life is life.
The director Giuseppe Tornatore is a master. I didn't know that Cinema Paradiso, 1900 and The Beautiful Legend of Sicily were trilogy, but after watching it, I can really feel the sense of qin, xiao and ming between the three films. Some people have translated the three films as "Starlight accompanies my heart", "Sound and light accompany me to fly" and "True love accompanies me", which sounds vulgar at first, but it is really interesting to translate, not only accurately points out each film The background of the movie, and make the three movies more connected. A "partner" character is all that the whole trilogy talks about, because the trilogy can have a common name, which is life. Whether it is accompanied by a cruise ship and a piano, a projector and a roll of film, or a charming young woman, what is "accompanied" is always our life.
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