contradictions, hypocrisy, greed, deceit;
fantasy, doubt, simplicity
, fickleness; strong, helpless, lonely, fragile;
forbearance, angry, complicated, and hateful.
Oh, senior animal. Hell and heaven are all in the world.
Where is the happiness?
Hell and heaven are all in the world. Where is happiness when I am born?
A beautiful city, La grande Bellezza. The tourists died here. The real Rome chants every day and sings night after night under the collision of classic and modern.
The writer Jep Gambardella decided to stop doing things she didn't want to do after her 65th birthday. He came to Rome at the age of 26, wanted to enter the upper class, wanted to "have the power to defeat others." He succeeded at this point. But he seemed to be trapped again. Trapped in the beautiful Rome, endless parties and the false flattery of the so-called high society.
The little girl hiding at the bottom of the temple asked: "Who are you?" Jep was surprised, and the little girl continued, "You are no one."
Look at the people around: the screenwriter Romano still lives in the student dormitory, even if he doesn't get the person he wants. Attention at first glance; Viola can't resonate with his paranoid son; Stefania speaks self-righteous lie, but calls it faith... What about Jep himself? He is eloquent, good at acting on the spot, still personable in old age, and does not interact too closely with all kinds of women. Until I met Ramona.
Ramona is one of the few characters in the movie that escapes the upper-class atmosphere. The milfs did not give up their striptease career, did not take drugs or alcohol, and spent all their money on treatment. She said: "It feels great to love each other." Jep said, "I have forgotten what it feels like to love someone."
She stopped writing because she wanted to find something more beautiful, but she didn't find it because Rome is so noisy. Or is it because Rome is different from before?
Romano said in his last speech before leaving Rome: "I spend the whole summer to miss those goodwill that have disappeared. What's so bad about nostalgia? This is the only pastime for people who have no faith in the future." Born in Rome, "Where" I can't go, I can't do anything." It seems that a city can prepare enough excuses for people's malaise. As Beauvoir said: "I think people recalled the era of occupation. In a sense, we miss that era, because at that time we can distinguish between enemy and friend."
The appearance of Sister Maria is the sublimation of the film. Prior to this, turning points continued: Jep's friend Romano returned home and left Rome, "Rome disappointed me"; woman Ramona passed away, she had witnessed Jep's "funeral performance" before; Viola went to Africa as a volunteer after losing her son The first love Elisa’s husband regained his sweet love; he even realized that his neighbor for many years is one of the ten most wanted criminals in the world... Everything is changing, everyone is leaving the original self, but Jep can’t break through his own "feeling" ", I can only mutter: "In my heart, there is a kind of..."
There is a kind of...the
sacred becomes secular. Sister Maria’s assistant is overwhelming and chattering; the cardinal’s most insight is not classics but cooking; the nuns take turns to take out their phones and take photos of Saint Maria as props; the one who came to accompany Sister Maria for dinner turned out to be posing as the Odescalchis couple Colonna couple, the declining nobles! Sister Maria's face was full of gully, expressionless, but her feet kept shaking like a girl. Persisting on sleeping on the floor and chewing on vegetable roots have been reduced to jokes in the mouths of contemporary people, and no one really cares why the saints come here.
The film shooting Rome, Romans, shooting ancient Roman temples, castles and modern Roman life, as well as Jep living next to the Colosseum, has already created a sense of surreal time and space. However, the most surreal scene is the bird parked on the balcony of Jep's house in the dawn. The nun faces Rome, the birds are quietly roosting, and the Colosseum is under the unlit purple-blue sky. The saint said: "I know the Christian names of all birds." Then he said: "Do you know why I eat vegetable roots? Because the roots are important."
Because the roots are important.
Jep started writing again. "Usually the end of things is death, but first there is life, hidden in this and that, I can't say enough, in fact, it has already settled in the noise. Silence is emotion, and love is fear." Emotion, if not silence It is not Rome’s fault that it is because people’s hearts are too loud to forget the "feeling of loving someone", and it is the embarrassment of being born that makes life pass away quietly in the unknown.
This is a film about "sleepy". High-level animals who are not in the Colosseum, but whose hearts cannot escape the embarrassment of human beings, know that what they are doing is not what their hearts want, but cannot abandon their hypocrisy. Choose to ignore the true self and only talk about the glitz and the trivial matters that have nothing to do with the heart. Because everyone is greedy for the beauty of the surface, everyone is in the same mode, so you can live according to the rules of the game (not according to the rules of the game, like strippers, Viola's son, and angry girls). The fate of an individual is often determined by the group, so it is too difficult to break free. Under the pressure of exquisite beauty, it is more of a sense of powerlessness, a limitation of being a human being. The film is an unanswered thinking about how people can break through their own limitations.
Some people can't find the beauty. Some people are unwilling to stop for good. This beautiful root is just concealed by the beauty. "The beautiful light is wild and impermanent. Those hardships, misery and painful human nature are buried under the embarrassment of being born, and I can't say enough." Born to be human. "It's just a flashy cloud. It's just a trick." The beauty in Jep's heart is the flawless body of his first love under the moonlight and the lighthouse, and it is also his first and purest understanding of life. Life is supposed to be like this, just look at it. Born to be human, we can't refuse the "gloomy clouds". The only thing we can do is to "accompany each other and take care of each other" on the edge of despair.
2014.1.29
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