peasant song

Keegan 2022-03-22 09:02:50

After reading the interview with Reed in Duku 1500, I really wanted to watch this.
After watching it, I thought it was an epic film. It was very long, 5 hours and 15 minutes. The life of Italian peasants has never been known. When it comes to Italy, most people think of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Roman Holiday, and at most Mussolini. Why Mussolini and Fascism? This movie seems to tell me. The lives of those Italians in 1900, the film spanned more than 40 years, and experienced two wars. The son of a peasant and the son of a landlord experienced things that their ancestors did not expect in these 40 years.
To be honest, I can't understand some places. The peasants gathered and sang at every turn. The singing moved me very much, but I didn't understand why the supervisors and the police were so afraid. The music left a deep impression on me. I looked for the soundtrack of the movie, but unfortunately there is no singing part.

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Extended Reading
  • Nico 2022-03-22 09:02:50

    This film is really too long...Alfredo, as a descendant of a farmer, is not as oppressive as his ancestors, but he is not willing to stand up more, and it is his laissez-faire that makes fascists like Attila and Regina rampant, causing too many Tragedy; Olmo's sense of resistance is reckless and out of place in the environment, and because of his friendship with Alfredo, he can't see him as a class enemy. Two children who made friendship, at the end are two old men who are still pushing each other, the moment when the train passed the railroad track where Alfredo lay down, it was pulled back to childhood, like a magical reincarnation. At that time, Big Nose and De Niro were strong and handsome. The interesting point is that the prince and priest in [Leopard] arrived in this film and played a pair of father and son~

  • Nico 2022-03-27 09:01:20

    In fact, this film is anti-ideological and anti-historical, and the scene of the child lying on the rails is the most important metaphor for the film's main theme: how an individual can save his life when the wheel of history runs over. Communism, fascism, and capitalism are all for the sake of the tiger, all of which are fleeting, and the eternal struggle of the flesh. Once again, Dominique Sanda and Stefania Sandrelli are two of the most fascinating actresses in Italian film history.

1900 quotes

  • Alfredo Berlinghieri: You slut. You like fooling around with everyone. Even Olmo.

    Ada Fiastri Paulhan: [Mocking] Olmo? What an imagination.

    Alfredo Berlinghieri: Is it my imagination to have seen you together? That I've seen you with him before? Is it my imagination that I smell him on you?

    Ada Fiastri Paulhan: [Yells] You think Olmo would have anything to do with the wife of a *fascist*?

    Alfredo Berlinghieri: [Screams] Fascist? I am not a fascist! If you call me that again I will kill you! If I see you with him again I will kill you!

  • [last lines]

    Alfredo Berlinghieri: The Padrone's alive.