summary of the story:
The story takes place a long time ago, on a picturesque island in Italy. The young Mario seems to be idle and does not like the life of fishermen. He is curious about the outside world and wants to leave the island. The silent father gave him a headache and asked him to find a job to support himself first.
One day, Mario, who watched the news at the theater, learned that the great poet Neruda, who wrote "fascinated many women", would be temporarily exiled to their island. Mario was less interested in Neruda's political side than in his relationship with women.
After coming out of the theater, Mario found that the post office was temporarily recruiting workers, and Mario, who had a bicycle, decided to apply for it. In the end, he discovered that in this semi-literate fishing village, he had become a postman for Neruda.
When he first started delivering letters, Mario was reserved and curious. While sending Neruda as many letters as a hill, he wondered how Neruda’s poems attracted women, even though everyone around him would remind him every time that women were communists too! (Don't think too much!)
Mario wanted to be friends with Neruda, but it didn't go well at first. Until Mario read Neruda's poem and asked him about "metaphors." What is a "metaphor"? How to write a "metaphor"?
Inspired by Neruda, Mario embarked on his own journey of poetry exploration.
Until this day, Mario met the niece of the tavern owner. The arrogant opponent stood behind the table and looked at him. Mario walked to each other, and the two played tabletop football. Poor Mario can't keep his eyes off each other, he's in love!
The tavern girl wasn't interested in Mario. Panting and anxious, Mario approached Neruda, asking him to write a poem for him to impress the woman. Neruda said angrily, "I don't know this girl at all. Poetry can't be born out of nothing!"
One day, while Neruda was recording, Mario was there. Neruda asked Mario to name the most beautiful thing on the island, and Mario named the girl.
Neruda finally laughed and paused the recording, and went to the tavern with Mario. There, in front of the girl, he wrote "To my best friend Mario" in the notebook, giving Mario enough face. It also made the girl look at Mario with admiration. They met on the beach by the sea, Mario read her a beautiful poem, and the two fell in love. But the girl's aunt would not easily agree. She found that the poem hidden in the girl's chest was a poem by Neruda that Mario stole and gave to the girl.
The aunt went to Neruda's house to complain, and Neruda learned that Mario stole the poem he had written for his lover and gave it to the tavern girl. And the aunt insisted that the beautiful poem was about her niece.
Mario, who was cowardly hiding behind, said he would not give up, Neruda said he should not steal his poems, Mario said it was all Neruda's responsibility, he brought Mario into a new world , and the poem does not belong to the author after it is written, but to the person who needs him.
At the same time, on this small island, although many candidates had promised to provide the island with a running water supply, they were thrown away as soon as they got the votes. And under the subtle influence of Neruda, Mario not only fell in love with writing poetry, but also had a vague view of communism, equality and power. On this day, the people in the town received false promises from the new candidates. Mario began to express his views bravely, and gradually began to help the people around him not to be exploited by the bourgeoisie, but he was not popular.
After some resistance, Mario married the girl. He insisted that Neruda be his witness, and on the day of the wedding, Neruda announced that he was ending his life of wanted and exile. He was going back to his home country soon, and asked Mario to send him his stuff later.
After Neruda left, Mario and the postmaster became friends and kept following Neruda's news. However, the other party seemed to have forgotten them, and Mario gradually became disappointed. When he received a letter from Neruda's secretary When he needed to send back Neruda's personal belongings, he recalled that Neruda had asked him what was the most beautiful thing on this island, and this time he had the answer.
He and the postmaster, modified the tape recorder. The two recorded the waves on the island, the wind, the church bells, the heartbeat of Mario's child... Years later, when Mario's child was born and could run, Neruda returned to the island to visit Mario, only to learn that many years ago, Mario was arrested and imprisoned for participating in the anti-exploitation rally of the island workers. Died before the child was born.
Neruda wandered again on the beach where they had met, lost in long thought.
First, the thread running through the text: poetry and metaphor.
Watching this movie, I recalled that there was an era, poetry, which was very powerful, a heavy weapon, and aroused echoes of a better world in people's minds. I didn't write poetry many years ago, and now I think of poetry, it's just some soft stuff, and some remnants of passion from the old world.
In the movies, poetry remains a powerful cannon, a weapon of revolutionaries. For Mario, a cute young man on an Italian island, this cannon shattered the peace and boredom of his old life, and dispelled his cognitive fog.
Starting with metaphors, Mario begins his own journey of exploring poetry. But the film doesn't sanctify the process very much, Mario's motivation is for girls. The clever thing is that although it starts with chasing girls and ends with marriage, the expression means of metaphor is far beyond expressing love.
The metaphor of the film does not stick to love, because Mario's setting is not just love, he is also pursuing truth, goodness and beauty. The metaphor and poetry make him realize the beauty of the island's scenery, the beauty of people, and the beauty of people. The ugliness of human nature, what their fishermen have been forced to endure silently for many years.
When Mario asked the sun in this world, did the wind and the sea also imply something? The unanswered questions give the whole film an enigmatic charm.
Tips: The central clue of the story, how to express this clue? Expand the world view (if appropriate, don't force sublimation, unless the work requires it? It's easy to be disgusting)
Two: the description of details: various foreshadowing.
In this film, details and foreshadowing set off Mario's character transformation. At the beginning, Mario kept talking about wanting to go to the United States, saying that he caught a cold from fishing, and he could see this restless young man. But his timid but courageous way of talking to Neruda makes the character all the more believable and endearing.
To set off Mario's final "success", he recites poetry on the same stage with poets he once heard. Start to tear open the hypocrisy of the candidates head-on. But there is still his confused side, and his confused side actually represents the commonality of all similar situations, seeing the big from the small.
Tips: Don't be stingy with depicting details, put yourself in the shoes of a character and think about his behavior. The details are the main line and the service will come naturally.
In the short video, there must be a truth, not necessarily the truth of the prop, but the temperament, the truth of the object, and the truth of life. Or quite the opposite, a collection of open minds. Don't be too high in the middle.
Third, the relationship between the characters
The appearance and expression of the heroine are wasteful and poetic. The relationship between Mario and Neruda is constantly changing, rising in reverse.
Tips: Don't be in a hurry to explain all the details of the characters, imagine the life in the window, and show the relationship between the characters and the background in the story.
The relationship between people tends to be dynamic, and affairs will cause changes in people and changes in people's relationships. Like ecological thinking, the dynamic changes in the relationship between people and their surroundings.
The short drama in the short video can fix the protagonist and tell different stories in stages, which are relatively independent but have one main character line, or multiple short and medium character main lines (similar to Ms. Diaosi). But there must be changes in characters, dynamics.
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