director
Visconti named the neorealism genre as the new genre of film in 1942. Started an era of movies.
Visconti himself was a great aristocrat and a big bourgeois and came from the top of society, but he believed in Marxism completely and was eventually arrested by fascists. Some people commented that he is a Marxist soaked in luxury goods.
This work describes the process of Italy’s post-war reconstruction and how southern rural families finally merged into the northern metropolis.
It is also a true portrayal of the arduous process of adaptation and integration of rural people in the process of urbanization in Italy.
3 topics
Disintegration-the disintegration of the traditional Italian family
Urbanization-the process by which rural people integrate into the city
Neorealism-portraying Italian social life after the war
language
The mother proudly said, "This is one of my hands, and my five sons are fingers" -the mother's yearning is to clen the family into a fist, attack life and society, and conquer life. The movie shows that the society defeated the mother and broke the mother’s "five fingers" one by one.
The eldest brother Vincenzo, the second brother Simon, the third is the protagonist Roco, and the fourth is Siro.
The protagonist Roco is the savior, protector, and guardian of the family. He wants to maintain the warmth of a big family and make sacrifices for his family.
Simon is charming, full of desires, easy to be tempted, powerful and creative, and eventually crushed by his weaknesses, falling and collapsing in the temptation of the city.
The main content of the movie is the sublimation and collapse of the third child and the second child.
In the story, the second child, Simon, bluntly "In our hometown, we are cumbersome animals. We have no way out except to go out to work like animals and die like animals ." It shows the rural areas during the reconstruction of Italy after the war. Decay and the pain of the bottom people.
2 groups of lenses
Shot 1:
A family in the countryside came to the station and was flustered when they couldn't find someone to meet him. The son who was looking forward to picking him up did not arrive. The family struggled to find his son in the city, but found that his son in mourning was holding his engagement ceremony. .
This kind of grey humor instantly detonated the hardships of a family when they first arrived in a big city.
There are two conflicts here
Mother and son, the mother questioned why the son didn’t feed the family and came to the station to pick them up
The son’s fiancée’s family thought it was a huge burden.
Shot 2:
In the various slums of the city, the rooms are lined with slums, which are intimate and impoverished.
In the early morning everyone found out that it was snowing, and the brothers were filled with indescribable happiness. This happiness is not the happiness of southerners seeing snow, but the ecstasy of everyone working today. Italians in this era, usually on snowy days Will win a job opportunity to sweep the snow, this is a gift from heaven. It is the happiness that we modern people cannot experience, but can feel by watching the Roco family in the movie.
When I saw the children scalded by the hot soup, sweating and full of happiness and eagerness, the brothers went out to rush the snow to earn money. This happiness touched me very much.
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