"Novecento" is an expansive picture, which is both an ode to peasant culture and a flogging of rural fascist forces. It shows the profound unease of a society divided into classes. The author's ambition also reaches conceited levels in the film, whose lack of history and Manichean simplification of good and evil undermines its success. Attila's image, though supposed to symbolize the brutality and murderousness of fascism, shows the arrogance of the ruling class but is not credible: the tragic death of the child he raped was not enough to make the lower Po figure as much as the author intended. As a typical example of Macbeth Zheng. The first episode was lyrical and full of gloom, and it felt like Bertolucci would carry on the tradition of epic films about peasants. Unfortunately, in the second episode of the film, ideology takes the place of poetry. Bertolucci's films about the peasant world show that his views on the peasantry are limited
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"Novecento" uses five and a half hours to show the history of Italy in the first half of the twentieth century. The three most important ideologies of the twentieth century, capitalism, communism and fascism, are all integrated in the film, becoming the Footnotes to the flow of history. The rise and fall of the family and the class struggle spanning 40 years are the two main lines of the film. Half a century of changes and the individual perspective under the revolutionary wave have given "Novecento" a heavy epic sense
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