opening 30 minutes of the film, there is nothing attractive, only Al Pacino's wonderful acting as a blind lieutenant colonel is left to me , I thought this was another successful parallel import with movie star acting and star effect. At that time, I was even ready to delete it after watching it, but the next classic clips quickly shattered this idea!
In fact, Al Pacino's acting skills don't need to be repeated any more. The excellent performances in the series of Godfather and Robbery Line have proved everything, and I feel that this "Scent of a Woman" is his most successful work. The ambivalence of the blind lieutenant colonel who longs for life but loses confidence in his life is vividly portrayed. In the film, when he once wanted to commit suicide, his dark and confused eyes, but after regaining hope, the fortitude and firmness of his eyes have to be admired by Alpa Sino has a solid foundation.
All of us are contradictory individuals, and the protagonist of this film is a model of that contradiction. The protagonist in the film is a lieutenant colonel who has lost his chance to be promoted to general many times due to his addiction to alcohol. He even lost his sight because of drinking in class in the military school and accidentally detonating a grenade. He is a loser in life. He no longer has a goal in life, abandons himself, and speaks ill of anyone, including his own relatives, as well as his lovely granddaughter. He is lustful, he said that the only thing he deserves to talk about is "women", but he is blind in both eyes, which makes him extremely fond of women. Knowing Women", does this show the contradiction of being a "person"?
Por Una Cabeza - I don't know what it means, I don't even know it's the language of the country, this is the name of the tango when the lieutenant colonel and the beautiful girl danced passionately in the New York hotel. As a blind lieutenant colonel, he danced tango with a young girl with a noble dance and smile on the eve of preparing to commit suicide, which is enough to show his nostalgia and yearning for life. I watched this clip many times, and every time I saw my blood boil, I even went to learn tango for this, but I still couldn't achieve the elegance and depth of Al Pacino in the film.
FERRARI - Blind people are destined to be unable to drive, but as a man who does not desire to drive a red Ferrari on the road. The lieutenant colonel is of course no exception. He needs others to guide the road and turns, but he doesn't care about speeding and violations. Under his control, the Ferrari continues to accelerate and shuttle through the noisy streets at high speed, just as his desire for life continues to strengthen.
"The soul has no prosthetic limbs" -
"He will not betray others for the future, and this, friends call integrity, also called courage, this is the leader's condition!"
"I have seen many, many young children whose arms are Twisted, broken legs, but those are not as terrifying as ugly souls.
Because souls cannot have prosthetic limbs!"
This impassioned speech by the Lieutenant Colonel at the college hearing has been deeply imprinted in my heart. The life of each of us is a fragment of history. How to make this fragment of ourselves shiny and how to record dozens of springs and autumns in our lives requires us to think deeply.
At the end of the film, the lieutenant colonel came home to see his granddaughter Harry
, "Little Harry, let's reconcile"
in Russian style. He is no longer the violent lieutenant colonel. He has found sunshine in the dark world. , came out and found the meaning of life, the hope of life.
As the lieutenant colonel himself said, "Learning the steps of tango is much easier than the steps of life!"
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