Thirty years later, Duoduo returned to his hometown where he had been gone for a long time. The dull and dying Paradise Cinema finally collapsed in front of everyone. Among the onlookers, the young faces were full of excitement and anticipation, because they knew that there would be a new beginning here. In the eyes of the old people, there are reluctance, sorrow, and more things that are unclear.
Different people will have different Paradise Cinemas in their hearts; different audiences will also have different "Paradise Cinemas" in their hearts. Watching this film at different stages of life, you will definitely have different feelings. This is probably the charm of classic movies.
Italian director Tornatore is well-known for shooting a number of neo-realist movies with excellent reputation and box office, . His films fully express the joys and sorrows of ordinary people. Tornatore not only carefully portrays the real emotions of the characters, but also integrates a strong sense of art into the film, and reflects social issues through the real lives of ordinary people. He is a new force in Italian neo-realistic films.
The movie "Paradise Cinema" released in 1988 is a film written and directed by Tornatore, and is called a "movie about movies". The film's interpretation of life philosophies and the unique structure of the drama aroused the inner ripples of the viewers. Tornatore also won many world-class awards, including the 62nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, and the 47th Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
Starting from the content of the film alone, it is impossible to interpret the charm of this Oscar Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Therefore, today I will further interpret the value and excitement of this film from the interlaced narrative structure of time and space and the precise expression of lens language. In the third part of the article, I will combine my own way of watching movies and share three common ways of expressing emotions in movies.
The most surprising thing about this movie is that the director uses three interweaving of time and space,The three space-times are the master's childhood space-time, youth space-time, and middle-aged space-time. Through the growth of the protagonist, the director showed the viewers an ordinary person's pursuit of love and dreams. Such an interlaced narrative structure of time and space makes viewers curious about the development of the plot and at the same time they want to seek the final answer together. Play structures like
are often used to explain previous stories. It can be said that it is difficult for the director to adopt this narrative structure. Because it needs to carefully distinguish between the main and the sub-space-time, otherwise it is easy to create a sense of messy plot. Duoduo's childhood time and space, youth time and time and middle-aged time and space experience ingenious convergence, making the presentation of the plot more complete.
So how does "Paradise Cinema" distinguish the main space-time and the sub-time space in detail, and subtly expand the amount of information of the movie, and enhance the movie's viewing value?
①Main time and space: Duoduo's childhood and youth time and space, telling the past experience in a realistic way
Although the opening of the movie is opened in Duoduo middle-aged time and space, this is to avoid the narrative process of the film Chaos, so I chose the middle age that is closer to the current time and space as the narrative axis, which leads to other time and space in the film, and makes it easier for the viewer's emotions to be substituted by the development of the plot.
The main space-time is mainly divided into two parts: childhood space-time and youth space-time. The childhood time and space tell more about the happy times and good memories, but the youth time and space adds a lot of sad time, because at this time, Duoduo met the love of this life, but they loved each other deeply, but they couldn’t stay together. , This casts more than 30 years of loneliness.
In the main time and space, the way the director tells the story is like a cup of fragrant coffee, allowing the viewers to unknowingly immerse themselves in a lot of memories, laugh and sorrow together with Toto .
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We don’t know why he no longer insists on the last day,I don't know whether the princess will agree to the soldier's courtship after 100 days of persistence. A love story with no ending corresponds to the development of the film’s emotional line. It's not that you can't love, but that love has no end!
Closer to home, the movie "Paradise Cinema" is 173 minutes long. This is what I learned after watching this movie. I might be watching a reduced version, about two hours. The film was released in Italy in 1988, and later won many awards, including very heavyweight awards such as the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Award.
"Paradise Cinema", " Sea Pianist " " The Beautiful Legend of Sicily " are all classics in movie history and a compulsory course for movie fans.
Born in Sicily used these three movies, to construct a space-time corridor connecting the past and the present, allowing people to travel through it, searching for the hometown and emotional imprints deep in memory . Therefore, the "Trilogy of Time and Space" is also called "Trilogy of Searching", or "Trilogy of Going Home".
"Paradise Cinema", released in 1988, is the starting point of the trilogy and the classic work that made Tonadore famous.
This is a movie about movies, but it also brings out everyone's childhood memories and homesickness.
"Paradise Cinema" was an unprecedented success, not only won Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film ,Also won the Cannes Jury Prize. On Douban, "Paradise Cinema" has a high score of 9.2.
This is a movie that will not be outdated. Even if you watch it today, you will be moved by its simple and abundant power. Because, in the heart of every adult, there may be a "Paradise Cinema".
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The protagonist is mostly a little boy from a small Italian village. A very naughty child. I like watching movies very much. It is also because he likes to watch movies, and I got to know the cinema projectionist Afido.
At the same time, a lot of weirdness also brings a lot of fun to life. He watched movies almost every day and learned to use the movie projector from Efedo.
When an outdoor movie was held, a fire broke out accidentally. Efedor hurt his eyes in the fire and went blind. Duoduo worked as a projectionist in the town for this.
The plot of "Paradise Cinema" began in a lot of middle-aged time and space, through childhood, youth, middle-age, and finally returned to middle-age. In this process, relatively few narratives about middle-aged time and space, and more focused on describing the innocence of childhood and the youthfulness of youth.
Under such a narrative structure, the director bid farewell to Hollywood’s splendid and brilliant skills, and used the most unpretentious language to impress viewers and touch everyone’s heartstrings. I think this is the most valuable part of this movie. . The clear presentation of the main time and space story makes the plot of this movie more intriguing and attracts people to look for answers to questions about the past.
In "Paradise Cinema", whether it is the freehand language of the shots or the contrast between the shots, all create a fascinating viewing environment for this movie. The story of this movie is full of real charm, and the development of the plot is more smooth and concrete.
In my opinion, it is these lens language supplements that magnify the story of ordinary people in the film, allowing the viewer to perceive and think, and explore more lives in a lot of life experiences Philosophy. In the film, the director hopes to convey some positive energy to the audience, and these need to be discovered by the viewers.
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Over the years, I have watched "Paradise Cinema" many times. Moving is still moving, but the inner feeling is different.
Many years later, many people were awakened by the ringing of the phone late at night and learned of Alfredo's death. Many middle-aged people who have become famous directors have never lacked flowers and applause. Of course, they will not lack women. No matter from which point of view, he is a real winner in life.
But, is he really happy?
None of the partners around him can soothe Duoduo's soul; the success of his career does not seem to be able to fill the void in Duoduo's heart. More importantly, the first half of the film is bright and warm, while the second half is cool. Because Duoduo is farther and farther away from his hometown and his spiritual destination.
Maybe the life you want is not like this? Maybe, what he wants is just to live a life with Elena? Maybe it’s okay to be an actor for a lifetime?
became a famous director,But perhaps, Alfredo is the general director of Duoduo Life. Many years later, Duoduo learned that it was Alfredo who had separated him and Elena by himself, although it was for his benefit. Looking back, the most critical steps in Duoduo's life were all "edited" by Alfredo.
Do people who are middle-aged and gray-haired will blame Alfredo? Will he regret his life choices back then? I don't know, I don't think Duoduo knows it myself.
In the quiet screening hall, I watched "Paradise Cinema", and tears fell unconsciously. Thirty years is not too long, I don't know, but this kind of waiting moved me. I was going to watch the full movie with a smile, but tears broke down when I exited the stage.
Maybe everyone is afraid of waiting for nothing, just like the story told by the old projectionist Ivorda in "Paradise Cinema", a person who vowed to exchange 100 days of waiting for the love of a princess On the 99th night after waiting, the man quietly left, "Because he was afraid that when the 100th day came, he heard the voice of the princess' rejection." He was afraid of accepting such an ending, so he chose to leave. Rather than let the hope be completely shattered, it is better to let yourself have a glimmer of fantasy.
Contrary to the man in the story told by Ivorda, the protagonist in the film Duoduo has never given up waiting and pursuing. He has been actively waiting and pursuing his own love, whether it is the first encounter or The painstaking search after the miss...even if it is a long goodbye of thirty years.
Thirty years later, Duo Duo has become a famous director. When he returned to his hometown and saw a girl who looked exactly like Elena, the indescribable surprise, excitement and heartache rushed and appeared before his eyes. Like the image of Elena in the camera thirty years ago. The wine glass suddenly fell from my hand, and the crystal fragments pierced my heart deeply.
finally met. On the quiet beach, Elena came to Duoduo as if she had predicted.They hugged each other lonely in the car. "You are still so beautiful." Duoduo said. This suddenly reminded me of two lines in the most famous poem "When You Are Old" by Yeats, "How many people love your young and happy appearance, fake or true; only one person loves you? The painful crepe on the old face, love your pure and pure soul like a pilgrim." I think this is the true love in the world, beyond the indefinite distance of time, beyond the barriers of space, and beyond The impermanence and indifference of life, this is an eternal mark that cannot be erased by any time, any destruction.
The end of the film is a screening tape of footage that was forbidden in Duoduo’s childhood. When happy or sad, feelings, ridicule, melancholy or affectionate kissing scenes flooded the screen, I remembered a lot. A lot of plots that have been missed: I think of the many people who were curiously vying to be cut film when I was a child. I remembered that when I first met, I was holding a camera to shoot Elena and smiling a lot. I thought of unrequited love. Shi was waiting in the rain for Elena to open the window and give him a smile. I remembered how excited I was when I saw Elena rushing to him in the heavy rain when I was in love. I remembered that I couldn’t find it. Elena But there were so many people calling Elena’s name at the door of Elena’s house. I remembered how many sorrows and joys were when the wine glass slipped from hand to hand. I remembered that when I met again I stared at Elena and said, "You are still like that. A lot of "beautiful"--I finally understand that at the end of the film, I cried a lot in the theater where the movie was shown for him alone.
"Paradise Cinema" tells not only the history of film development, but also not only a lot of emotional journeys, it tells us that everyone must experience growth. From innocence to romantic ideals, and then through the realization or disillusionment of ideals, from childhood to youth, middle age, and old age, from leaving our family to returning to our hometown, we are all looking for a dock while we are drifting, and then we start drifting again after docking. There is hope, and there is hope to be broken. The only thing that does not change is this simple and iterative cycle.
There are many in "Paradise Cinema", movie is his dream of life .
In the eyes of Duoduo as a child, the projection port that projects light and shadow will become a large mouth opened by a lion, with mysterious and unknown power.
At that time, his dream was to become a film projectionist like Uncle Efedo. When this dream was realized when he was a teenager, the future is full of confusion.
has experienced the process of growing up, and this process has made him mature in the constant loss of .
At the age of ignorance of sorrow, Dodo lost his father who died on the battlefield, and lived with his mother and sister. Fortunately, he also has Paradise Cinema and Uncle Efedo.
Efedor lost his eyes in a fire, and the movie theater experienced its first destruction.
This loss made Duoduo a new film projectionist. This is just a small starting point for his life.
Toto has welcomed his first love again, and this disparity in love with the banker's daughter is destined to leave sadness and regret.
Afido, who is also a teacher, friend and father, told Dodo a story about soldiers pursuing the princess. The princess asked the soldiers to stay under her bed for 100 consecutive days to accept each other, but the soldiers got up and left on the 99th day.
imitate the story and pursue the girl you like,But only after losing his girlfriend after serving in the military did he understand the true meaning of the story: If the soldier waits for 100 days for the princess to break the contract, the soldier will be heartbroken, and leaving the night before will make the princess unforgettable.
This is a destined regret in life. Only when we lose can we realize the truth, and only when we leave can there be new life. .
will only play the movie if I have been stuck in a small town for a lifetime. I don't want Duoduo to live like him. He is like a beast that raises its cubs and wants to "drive out" Duoduo.
He told Dado: " , go out, never come back, don’t call, don’t write. I don’t want to talk to you here, I want to listen to others talking about you ".
Duoduo said goodbye to his mother, far away from home, boarded the train far away, and set off into the vast world once seen in the movie, never going back.
is much like a kite with a broken line, burying the bitterness of first love in the heart, no longer nostalgic for hometown and family, flying to the farther sky. What I haven't forgotten is my dream about film in my heart, and I finally become a film master.
Duoduo lives alone in the city with great fame. Duoduo's mother said that every time a phone call is answered by a different woman, but she can't feel their love. Duoduo couldn't find his most cherished love again.
There is still time that has passed.
waited for Duoduo to return to his hometown again to attend the funeral of Efedor. Also leaving is the Paradise Cinema that accompanied his childhood. He raised his head and looked at the place he was most familiar with, his eyes filled with dismay and sigh.
Everyone's life is honed in gains and losses, just like those kissing shots that were cut off by Efedo. Only by cutting them can the movie be shown and more people can see.
The cut shots can only be burned to ashes, or treasured in someone’s heart.
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"Everyone's childhood, each person's hometown, and each person's first love are memories and feelings that accompany each other until death and penetrate into the blood and soul" .
Director Tonadore was born in Sicily, Italy, and his works always have a Sicilian complex. Both "Paradise Cinema" and "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" place the story in Sicily.
In a sense, the luxury cruise ship in "Sea Pianist" that lasted until 1900,It is also a mobile island.
Tonadore puts his nostalgia into his movies, it is like his incarnation .
There are so many childhood memories in Paradise Cinema, with his beautiful and bitter first love, and uncle Efedo’s year-end friendship.
In the director's cut version of the movie, there is also a description of the relationship between Duoduo and his mother. My mother seemed to be harsh and strict with Duoduo, but she waited until Duoduo came back from the screening every night, and she secretly went down and locked the door when she saw him sleeping. Since Duoduo left, she hadn't locked the door for 30 years, so she simply took the lock off.
To the most important person to Toto, it is none other than Efeto.
Duoduo would sit on Efido’s bicycle and enjoy the warm sunshine of the country roads. He would study film screenings under Efido’s guidance. Efedor will show the open-air movies in the square for those who have no tickets, and will save Efedor's life in the fire.
Efedo also regards Dodo as his son, teaches him the truth, and gives him some tips.
He doesn't want to be as smart and easy to learn as himself. He spends his life in the square-inch projection room, in the quiet but closed town.
He wanted to let Duoduo go to the wider world to show his fists, and even sacrificed Duoduo's first love, and he himself never saw Duo Duo until his death.
such deep love,Forever stayed in a lot of homesickness.
In a lot of homesickness, I can never let go of my first love Elena.
The girl's bright eyes, white teeth and red lips, he waited unimpeded on the balcony, the sweet first kiss in the screening room, the long-awaited love, the joy of reunion, and the bitterness of the end without disease.
In the director's cut version, there is a story about Duto's reunion with Elena after returning to her hometown. Elena married Duoduo's childhood playmate, just the kid who couldn't answer the question at the blackboard and helped Duoduo transport the film.
In fact, the edited version of this explanation destroys the artistic conception of first love.
First love is even more memorable, and there is no need for a deliberate memorial service. Let him go away if he goes away, and the best thing left in memory is .
is like Duoduo replaying the secret shots of Elena in his youth at home. The beautiful face filled with youth is fixed on the film for eternity.
In the movie, there is a lunatic who sleeps on the town square. He always said that this square belongs to him. For the people in the small town, that square is their eternal hometown.Dodo is the same.
Duoduo Rong returned to his hometown, hesitating in the run-down heaven movie, looking back at his youth, everywhere is the shadow of his own past.
Everyone will have their own childhood memory, which is hometown. Everyone will also have their own "Paradise Cinema", a "paradise" carrying childhood dreams and life imprints .
Many people, like many people, "the young and old leave home and the old man is back, the local accent has not changed." Even more people have no chance to return to his familiar hometown. It has long since become completely unrecognizable, and the childhood "paradise" is also missing. Some people even have no chance to see this "unrecognizable", their hometown will always remain in the distant memory of their memories.
At the end of the movie, Dodo returns to the city and opens the gift that Efedor left him. It was a kissing scene cut by Efedo more than 30 years ago. In front of the screen, I watched these kissing collections, as if traveling through time, with surprises and throbbing lights in my eyes, and ripples in my heart again.
This scene is extremely touching. The film of the movie is like a memory segment deep in our minds, reappearing in the past, but things are not human .
04 Conclusion
I have to say,"Paradise Cinema" is the kind of movie that can enter people's hearts. It uses unpretentious film language and simple and affectionate stories to touch the softest part of people's hearts.
The many actors, the cute and clever children, the handsome and affectionate youth, and the vicissitudes of adulthood are all impressed.
, especially Jacques Behan played a lot of grown-ups, not many dramas and lines, but it interprets the feeling of restraining the inner waves after going through the world.
Many years later, Jacques Behan played the protagonist's adulthood in another classic movie with the same effect. This movie was released in 2004 "The Spring of the Cattle Class".
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