Summary of the highlights of "Brilliant Life"

Carter 2022-01-14 08:01:04

Softness overcomes rigidity, and haste is not fast. The wisdom of ancient Chinese is the main line of this film. Zuozhen metaphors the problems of this world. Mateo and Nikola try to solve them in a self-righteous way. The farewell between the two at the station means the development of two lives. The answer is in the end. Nikolai, who is a friend of time and enjoys the process, has found the right answer. The footage of Nicholas making Zozhen water daily is moving. Behind it is the attitude of being calm and calm when facing the cold reality. This is the mentality that the director believes to be a brilliant life.

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Nikolai and his wife Julianne are a sideline. They explain the way they change the world in a non-metaphorical way. Unlike the mainline, this sideline focuses on explaining the way of cognition of life. When I was a student, I was addicted to the school trend with Julian. Nicholas, came out of the wrong cognition. Nicholas mocked the scene where he took his daughter through the misty leftist meeting. It metaphors the break with his previous cognition and the embrace of scientific reason. This is the director. The rational cognition that life should have.

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The friendliness and tolerance advocated in the film is also an extremely important point in the understanding of life. Love is an important factor linking a brilliant life. The mother of the two keeps visiting Mario's paralyzed friend every week, which is the director's metaphor about love. The importance of love lies in the connection with the incompleteness and tolerance of the bad, so that society will not be broken. However, Mario, who is distinguished between good and evil and too strong in principle, missed the link of love. Before Mario jumped from the building, the phone call with his girlfriend could not be connected, a metaphor for the final break of love. -----------------------------------

Some small fragments in the film also show the director's view of life. Nicola's friends struggled out of unemployment, implying the attitude we should have in the face of setbacks. Another friend of Nicholas, later brother-in-law, chose to stay in the country in the face of assassination threats, suggesting that we should be strong and persistent in the face of difficulties and fears.

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Nicholas changed the world in a seemingly slow, seemingly unprincipled, rational, scientific, and loving way, like a race between the tortoise and the hare, and changed the world a lot, changed psychological perception, changed the law, and cured Zuozhen. Establish a link with Julianne with love,

But, is this what a brilliant life is about? The ultimate question is that Nikola can never change Mario. Perhaps, complexity and diversity are the real splendor of life.

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I watched a 6-hour movie for the first time, and I have a lot of insights. This movie shows the cultural depth that a nation with a thousand-year heritage should have.

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Extended Reading
  • Olen 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    6/10. The inspection of the fate of the individual goes beyond ideological confrontation, filming the riots on the streets of Turin, using the medium panoramic view to blur the attire and faces of the police and leftists, only from a distance, and showing the patients who have been harmed by state institutions, corrupt people. The officials were given the right to speak, not only could they see the mute who accused the doctor of inhuman abuse in the court, and the helplessness who could only nod and shake his head during the presentation, but also could hear the officials who attempted suicide defending Nikolai. In a social environment where corruption is accustomed to him, he was just unfortunate enough to hit the gun. The display of family pictures is full of poetic fragments: in the lies of an economic miracle, the father clamors to sell the family fortune to invest in the business; in the open-air restaurant, the brothers and Zo-jin prankly cheer for the Korean team, and Zo-jin is outside the grocery store being taken away. Face to face with Madio; the young volunteers' book-saving campaign during the flood, Julia's piano sound immersed in Nicola's heart, but the peaceful family could not appease her passion for joining the Red Brigade; the New Year's Eve with splendid fireworks, could not be compared with Madio of world reconciliation leaps forward. Nevertheless, from the plot to the emotion is too common and plain, not like a movie but like a single play.

  • Greyson 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    A film known for its length, from 1966 to 2003, in this more than six hours, covers half of Italy's modern history. Life is a cycle. There are still young lives that are retracing the path we have traveled. It is worth mentioning that the death of each character is handled so quietly and cleanly, and there is no place for sensationalism, but many people cry. You are Madio and you are Nicola.

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