The 42nd Cannes Film Festival Jury Special Grand Prix (1989).
The Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards (1990).
Best Foreign Language Film at the 47th Global Awards (1990).
Best Actor at the 2nd European Film Awards (1989).
The 2nd European Film Awards Jury's Special Award (1989)
44th BAFTA Best Foreign Language Film (1991)
The 44th BAFTA Best Film Score (1991)
Best Original Screenplay, 44th BAFTA (1991).
BAFTA 44th Awards (1991), he won the Best Actor Award. At the 44th BAFTA Awards in 1991, he won Best Supporting Actor.
Anyone who has a memory of the cinema will be in this film. Revisiting the past, this movie can't help but evoke nostalgic feelings in you. The smacking projector, the scratches of the film on the screen, the rough film effect, and the undisguised beauty of the old stars; the loud voices in the cinema; the beam of light projected by the projection hole is cut by the swaying figure. This scene is familiar. The camera hits you through time and space, giving children all over the world a reason to return to their childhood.
Movies used to be the only entertainment in our lives, and everyone has a movie paradise in their hearts. The lack of choices makes us unable not to love movies. Just like Toto in the movie, the movie theater recorded all the beauty of his childhood, witnessed his growth and love. He used the camera to secretly record the beloved girl, like the soldier in the story. Waiting by her window every night like that, he used to be luckier than the soldier in the story; he waited for his love, but in the end, it was lost, and it became a dark wound in his heart that could not be healed.
Alfredo chooses a path for Toto that he thinks is right, based on his life's experience and out of true love for Toto. He deliberately sabotaged Toto's love and concealed the truth, sending Toto away and demanding that he never return. Toto went out, and many years later he became a respected film director, and the impression of his hometown has been annihilated in the complicated affairs and erotic wanderings of the film. It was not until he heard the news of Alfredo's passing that he began to find nostalgia. key.
Toto, who was planning to leave after attending the funeral in a few hours, hung up the phone, urging him to leave again and again. What tripped him up? When faced face-to-face with the memories, Toto suddenly heard the truest voice in his heart. It was a tribute to the beauty that could no longer be reversed, the joy of childhood and the sweetness of love, and the time related to the cinema. I believe he would rather give up everything now in exchange for what he once had.
Alfredo has no way of knowing that the path he designed for Toto has caused him to suffer a loss of trust all his life. Just like Toto's mother said, I wish you could be at peace and love someone well. When Toto inhabits the body of a woman, he is unable to give love, trust, or commitment. Alfredo told him that movies are not life, and life is much harder than movies. And Toto conquered life according to his guidance, but lost the most beautiful movie paradise.
Life is like this, with cruel choices as the norm. We can't have both, and who of us can play someone else's judge? What is right, what is wrong, and how to choose based on your real needs? No one can predict whether they will still be willing to choose this moment years later. You can't, and neither can I. Even if we choose to be devout and sincere at the moment, we can't guarantee that we will refuse to pay for the current life in the future. The answer that fate writes to everyone is that behind the blossoms, there is always a lost paradise hidden.
Because I watched the extended version and added a lot of scenes between Toto and the old lover, my understanding of the movie is more focused on the emotion of making people. If this paragraph is removed, Alfredo's image will be more perfect, and the connotation will become simple and concentrated. In fact, a good movie should be like this. No matter how you look at it, it will make you fall deeply and deeply.
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