This is a film full of religious metaphors, using magical realism to show the serf society and capitalist society in parallel to the audience under a miracle.
The serfs were rescued by the police, but their situation did not seem to have improved over the years, and they were still at the bottom of the society, living by stealing, cheating and robbery.
With a kind of sentimentality and sadness, the director clearly pointed the attack at the modern society that is still enslaving the public through more subtle and clever means, but nostalgia is impossible.
The happiness of today is different from the happiness of the past, just as the misery of today is also different from the misery of the past. When the misery of the past is over, the feeling of misery itself will remain unchanged. Under the new desire, there will always be a new misery to take over. position, and suffering, on the other hand, is also the driving force of social progress.
Although Inviolata is a quaint village where people were "imprisoned" and enslaved in the past, this land is also the means of production for laborers, and in the city, they exist as proletarians. That's why Lazaro was not abandoned when he was in Inviolata, because when he was given the means of production, he was a good laborer; but in a city that lost the means of production, he was more like a capitalist when he didn't sell his freedom. A "devil" who is idle and has nothing to do to eat rice.
In addition, I personally think that Tancredi can save the tenant farmers because he has seen the outside world, masters the language and tools of this world, and has the ability to negotiate; Lazaro finally died in the bank because he was out of reality for many years, He does not understand the organizational language of modern society at all, and his ignorance prevents him from negotiating and communicating with ordinary people.
For the people at the bottom, ignorance is more terrible than poverty. Poverty is a status quo, and the ignorance brought by poverty makes them not only full of fear of the unknown and stick to traditional backwardness and self-imprisonment, but also makes them always because of shortsightedness. Not being able to make the choices that are best for you.
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