love hidden in the cinema

Wiley 2022-04-23 07:01:27

"Paradise Cinema" is a nostalgic film that recalls the history of film and personal emotional journey. It has the unique humor of Italians, and presents a clear, graceful and tender memory. The film tells the story of Salvador living in a small town in Italy with flashbacks. He likes to watch projectionist Evert play movies and form a deep friendship with him. At the same time, he also finds the joy of childhood in the film.
This film is everyone's childhood, everyone's hometown, everyone's first love, and it is the memory and feeling that permeates the soul in the blood and lasts forever until death. In his childhood, Duo Duo is smart and treats the films that bring magical images in rotation as treasures. In this land, there are his favorite movies and his pure first love, Elena, but later he lost his love and left Xiao Xiao. Zhen, pursuing the dream in his life, when Duoduo set foot on this familiar land again after 30 years, the feeling has not changed at all, but the scene of the characters around him has already been turned upside down. I don't understand that movies are different from life. The hot summer of life is longer and hotter. "Life is not a movie, life is much harder than a movie!" Reality is miserable and tedious, and the heavenly cinema that houses our dreams will eventually collapse. in a world of absurdity and suffering. This world is false, and the only reality is the dream that accompanies our exile.
The film uses flashbacks to establish two time clues: one is the life process of Duoduo in reality, which is shown in just a few days in the film; the other is the historical changes in memory and the time process of character growth, which is shown in the film. It is more than ten years, from receiving the news of Ivordo's death in Rome, to the memories of the small town as a teenager, to returning to my hometown to attend Ivordo's funeral, with the Italian town as the background, the characters interact naturally, and the clues are intertwined to advance each other. The use of language in the film is also very clever. Taking Duoduo’s military service as an example, it took only half a minute and seven shots to satisfactorily show Duoduo this time that was neither joyful nor worth explaining. pass. In terms of music, the beautiful and quiet theme song Cinema Paradiso appears many times in the film. The combination of piano, violin and orchestra further enhances the environment and facilitates the progress of the plot. The use of light is even more unique. When Duoduo waited for Elena to fail to enter the alley, the very festive and vibrant red light appeared at the same time with the melancholy and calm cool blue light at the end of the alley, making the theme emotionally intense. The collision highlights Duoduo's annoyance and depression after being frustrated, and also makes the audience appreciate Duoduo's sincere and fervent pure love for Elena in the film. In the space environment, taking the cinema as an example, the film uses a lot of life details with comedy to show the special living conditions of a generation of Italians in the dream paradise of the cinema. All kinds of difficulties and troubles in real life, and immersed in joy.
We cannot greedily keep and occupy every complete love. Gain and loss are the intersection and opposition between every love. We should not be overly utilitarian to evaluate what we have gained or what we have lost, but more should appreciate the comfort and well-being that every love brings to us. As one of the "Trilogy" of the famous Italian director Giuseppe Tonatore, "Cinema Paradiso" is undoubtedly a success. The style and accurate audio-visual grasp make this a miracle in the history of the film.

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Cinema Paradiso quotes

  • 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.

  • [to Elena]

    Alfredo: Out of the fire of love come ashes. Even the greatest love eventually fizzles out.