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Cinema Paradise movie review
Rebecca 2022-04-21 09:01:28
"Paradise Cinema" is a film full of nostalgia. It does not have the melancholy and sadness of "City of Sadness", nor the carving and exploration of "Once Upon a Time in America". The director uses a simple way to set the plot and visual expression without publicity. It presents a lively, graceful, tender and beautiful image memory with a unique Italian humor. As Bresson put it: "An art has real power only if it maintains its purity." The director deliberately took the plaza from the cinema of Paradise from the perspective of the protagonist Salvador three times: once Xiao Duoduo saw people strolling leisurely in the square on mules, women carrying buckets to fetch water in the square, hawkers selling silk stockings, peasant women brushing mahogany boards, children shaving their heads and taking a bath; the second time, young Duoduo waited for his lover Yi Linna came to see him off, looking down from the window, the transportation at this time had become a bus; the third time was when the middle-aged Duoduo returned to his hometown and boarded the movie theater that was about to be demolished. It was still the window. It was cars that filled the square, and all kinds of advertising posters hung on the walls. Although life in the small town is calm, the director chose a series of small details to reflect the process of life and the changes in history. From the initial review of the film by priests, the deletion of the "erotic" scenes in the film, to the first kiss scene after the reconstruction of the cinema, to the later playback of pornographic films, and even the cinema once became a pornographic place, from the elementary school classmates Farewell to see the domestic partisan disputes at that time, and then to the middle-aged man who often slept in the cinema who died under the gun of the mafia, from the cinema was the only cultural and entertainment center in the town, to the establishment of the cafe next to the cinema... With just a few strokes, it succinctly outlines the changing theme of the vicissitudes of the town.
Extended Reading
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Salvatore 'Toto' Di Vita - Adult: Elena, perhaps in the future we could...
Elena Mendola - Adult, Director's cut only: No, Salvaotre, there is no future. There is only the past. Even last night's encounter was just a dream. A wonderful dream. When we were young, we never did it. Do you remember? Now that it has happened, I can't imagine a better ending.
Salvatore 'Toto' Di Vita - Adult: I'll never agree with you. Never.
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[to Elena]
Alfredo: Out of the fire of love come ashes. Even the greatest love eventually fizzles out.