Love Movie: Paradise Cinema-No ending may be the best ending.

Thirty years later, Duoduo returned to his long-lost hometown. The lifeless and dying Paradise Cinema finally collapsed in front of everyone. Among the onlookers, young faces are full of excitement and expectation, because they know that there will be a new beginning here. In the eyes of old people, there are sadness, sadness and more unexplained things.

In different people's hearts, there will be different paradise cinemas; Different audiences will also have different "Paradise Cinema". Watching this movie at different stages of your life will definitely make you feel different. This is probably the charm of classic movies.

Italian director Tornatore is famous for his many new realistic films, with excellent reputation and box office. His films vividly show the joys and sorrows of ordinary people. Tonatore not only depicts the true feelings of the characters in detail, but also incorporates a strong sense of art into the film, reflecting social problems through the real life of ordinary people, and is a cutting-edge force in Italian neo-realistic films.

1988 The movie "Paradise Cinema" is a film written and directed by Tonatore, and it is called "a film about movies". The film's philosophical interpretation of life and the unique structure of the play aroused ripples in the audience's heart. Tonatore also won many world-class awards such as the Best Foreign Language Film Award in the 62nd Academy Awards and the Best Foreign Language Film Award in the 47th Golden Globe Award for this film.

From the content of the film alone, it is impossible to interpret the charm of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. So today, I will further interpret the value and beauty of this film from the narrative structure of staggered time and space and the accurate expression of lens language. In the third part of the article, I will share three common emotional expressions in movies with my own way of watching movies.

The most surprising thing about this film is that the director adopts the interweaving of three time spaces, namely, the protagonist's childhood time space, youth time space and middle-aged time space. Through the growth process of many protagonists, the director showed the audience an ordinary person's pursuit of love and dreams. Such a narrative structure with staggered time and space makes the audience curious about the development of the plot and want to seek the final answer together.

This script structure is often used to explain the stories that happened before. It can be said that it is difficult for directors to adopt this narrative structure. Because it needs to carefully distinguish between the main and auxiliary time and space, otherwise it will easily make people feel messy. The ingenious connection of many childhood time and space experiences, youth time and space experiences and middle-aged time and space experiences makes the presentation of the plot more complete.

Then, how does "Paradise Cinema" divide the main space-time and the sub-space-time in detail, skillfully expand the information of the film and enhance the viewing value of the film?

① Main time and space: a lot of childhood time and space and youth time and space, telling the past experience realistically.

Although the opening of the film begins with a large number of middle-aged time and space, this is to avoid the confusion in the narrative process of the film, so the middle-aged period closer to the present time and space is chosen as the narrative axis, which leads to other time and space in the film, making it easier for the audience's emotions to be replaced by the development of the plot.

The main space-time is mainly divided into two parts: childhood space-time and youth space-time. Childhood time and space tells more about many happy times and beautiful memories, while youth time and space adds a lot of sad times, because at this time, many people met the love of their lives, but they could not be together, creating a lot of loneliness for 30 years.

In the main time and space, the way the director tells the story is like a cup of fragrant coffee, which makes the audience unconsciously immerse themselves in many memories and laugh and grieve with many people.

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We don't know why he didn't persist until the last day, and we don't know whether the princess will promise the soldiers' courtship after a hundred days. A love story with no ending corresponds to the emotional development of this film. It's not that you can't love, but that love has no ending!

Anyway, the length of the movie Paradise Cinema is 173 minutes. I didn't know this until I saw the film. I may have read the abridged version, about two hours. The film 1988 was released in Italy, and later won many awards, including the Oscar for best foreign language film and other very heavyweight awards.

Movie Paradise, The Legend of 1900 and The Beautiful Legend of Sicily are all classics in the history of movies, and they are also compulsory courses for fans.

Tornado, who was born in Sicily, used these three films to build a space-time corridor connecting the past and the present, allowing people to shuttle through it and find their hometown and emotional imprint in the depths of their memories. Therefore, the trilogy of time and space is also called the trilogy of finding or the trilogy of going home.

Cinema Paradise, released on 1988, is the starting point of the trilogy and a classic that made tornado famous.

This is a movie about movies, but it also brings out everyone's childhood memories and homesickness.

Cinema Paradise has been an unprecedented success, winning not only the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, but also the Cannes Jury Award. On Douban, "Paradise Cinema" got a high score of 9.2.

This is a film that won't go out of fashion. Even if you look at it today, you will be moved by its simple and rich power. Because, in every adult's heart, there may be a "paradise cinema".

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The hero Duoduo is a little boy in a small village in Italy. Naughty boy. I like movies very much. It is also because I like watching movies that I met Alfredo, a theater projectionist. An old man and a young man formed an unforgettable friend.

At the same time, many strange things also bring a lot of fun to life. He comes to the movies almost every day and learns from Alfredo to use the film projector.

There was an accidental fire when an open-air movie was held. Alfredo hurt his eyes in the fire and went blind. Toto became a projectionist in the town for this.

The story of Paradise Cinema begins in many middle-aged time and space, runs through childhood, youth, middle age and finally returns to middle age. In this process, the description of middle-aged time and space is relatively less, and more attention is paid to describing the innocence of childhood and adolescence.

Under this narrative structure, the director bid farewell to the colorful skills of Hollywood, touched the audience with the most unpretentious language, and touched everyone's heartstrings. I think this is the most valuable part of this film. The clear presentation of the main time and space stories makes the plot of this film more intriguing and attracts people to find answers to questions about the past time.

In Paradise Cinema, both the freehand brushwork of the lens language and the contrast between the lenses create a fascinating viewing situation for the film. Let this movie story be full of real charm, and the development of the plot will be smoother and more concrete.

In my opinion, it is the supplement of these lens languages that magnifies the story of ordinary people in the film, so that the audience can use it to feel and think, and dig more life philosophy from a lot of life experiences. In the film, the director hopes to convey some positive energy to the audience, which requires the audience to find it with their heart.

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Over the years, I have repeatedly watched the Paradise Cinema. Moved or moved, but the inner feeling is different.

Years later, I was awakened by the phone ringing in the middle of the night and learned the news of Alfredo's death. Many middle-aged directors have become famous directors, and there is no shortage of flowers and applause, and of course there is no shortage of women. No matter from which angle, he is a real winner in life.

But is he really happy?

None of the companions around can soothe many souls; Career success seems unable to fill many inner gaps. More importantly, the first half of the film is bright and warm, and the second half is cool. Because Duoduo is getting farther and farther away from his hometown and his spiritual home.

Perhaps, the life that Duo Duo wants is not like this, right? Maybe all he wants is to spend his life with Elena? Maybe there's nothing wrong with being an actor all your life.

Duoduo became a famous director, but perhaps Alfredo is the general director of Duoduo's life. Many years later, Dodo realized that Alfredo had separated him and Elena himself, even though it was for his own good. In retrospect, many key steps in life were "edited" by Alfredo.

Do many middle-aged and old people and white-haired people blame Alfredo? Will he regret his life choice? I don't know. I don't think many of them know.

In the quiet screening hall, I watched the Paradise Cinema, and my tears fell unconsciously. I don't know if 30 years is a long time, but I am moved by such a wait. I was going to watch the whole movie with a smile, but I was in tears when I left.

Perhaps, everyone will be afraid of waiting for failure. Just like the story told by Avda, an old projectionist in Paradise Cinema, a man who vowed to wait100th day for a princess's love quietly left after waiting for the 99th night, "because he was afraid that when the100th day came, he would hear the princess's refusal." He was afraid to accept such an ending, so he chose to leave. It is better to have a little fantasy than to let your hopes be completely dashed.

Contrary to the man in the story told by Abieda, Duoduo, the hero in the film, never gave up waiting and pursuing. He has been actively waiting for and pursuing his love, whether it is the initial encounter or the hard search after missing it ... even after 30 years of separation.

Thirty years later, Duo Duo, who has become a famous director, returned to his hometown and met a girl who looks like Elena. The indescribable surprise, excitement and heartache came to his eyes, just like the image of Elena in the camera 30 years ago. The glass suddenly slipped from my hand, and the glittering fragments on the ground stung my heart deeply.

Finally, in the quiet seaside, Elena came to Duoduo as she expected, and they embraced each other alone in the car. "You are still so beautiful." Say one more word. This reminds me of two sentences in Ye Zhi's most famous poem "When you are old": "How many people love your face when you are young, pretending or sincere; Only one person loves the old and painful wrinkles on your face and your pure and clear soul like a pilgrim. " I think this is the true love in the world, beyond endless time, beyond the layers of space, beyond the impermanence and indifference of life. This is permanent stain that no time and no harm can erase.

At the end of the film, there is a screening tape of lens clips that were forbidden in many childhood. When the scenes on the screen are happy or sad, or affectionate or smiling or sad or affectionate, I think of many scenes that have been let go: I think of many films that I was curious to cut when I was a child, and I think of many smiles when I first met Elena with my camera. I remembered how much I waited for Elena to open the window and give him a smile when I had unrequited love, how excited I was when I saw Elena rushing to his side in the heavy rain when I was in love, how excited I was because I couldn't find Elena calling Elena's name at the door of Elena's house, how uncomfortable it was when the glass fell from my hand when I was sad and happy, and how excited I was to stare at Elena and say "You are still so beautiful" when I met again-I finally understood.

Cinema Paradise is not only about history of film, but also about many emotional experiences. It tells us that everyone must experience growth. From innocence to romantic ideals, and then through the realization or disillusionment of ideals, from childhood to youth, from middle age to old age, from leaving home to returning home, we all look for stops in drifting, and then we begin to drift again. There is hope, and there is also hope to be broken. What remains unchanged is this simple and repetitive cycle.

There are many movies in Paradise Cinema, and movies are his life dream.

In the eyes of many children, the projection mouth that projects light and shadow will become the lion's open mouth with mysterious and unknown power.

At that time, his dream was to be a film projectionist like Uncle Alfredo. When this dream was realized in childhood, the future was full of confusion.

Duoduo experienced the process of growth, which made him mature in constant loss.

At the age when I don't know the taste of sadness, I lost my father who died in battle and lived alone with my mother and sister. Fortunately, he also has Paradise Cinema and Uncle Alfredo.

Alfredo lost his eyes in a fire again, and the cinema also experienced the first destruction.

This defeat made Duo Duo a new film projectionist, which was only a small starting point in his life.

Duoduo ushered in his first love again, and this disparity with the status of banker's daughter was destined to leave him only sadness and regret.

Alfredo is also a teacher, friend and father. He told do A Duo the story of soldiers chasing the princess. The princess allowed soldiers to stay under her bed for 100 days in a row, but the soldiers got up and left on the 99th day.

Many people follow the story and pursue the girl they like, but only after losing their girlfriend after military service do they understand the true meaning of the story: if the soldier waits 100 days and the princess breaks her contract, the soldier will be heartbroken, but leaving the night before will make the princess unforgettable.

This is a doomed regret in life. Only when you lose will you realize the truth, and only when you leave will you have new vitality.

Alfredo, who only plays movies and has been trapped in a small town all his life, doesn't want to live like him. He is like a beast with cubs, and he wants to "expel" a lot.

He told Toto: "Go out and wander, never come back, don't make phone calls, don't write letters. I don't want to talk to you here, I want to hear about you. "

Toto said goodbye to his mother, left his hometown, boarded a distant train, and ran to the vast world he had seen in the movie, never to return.

Duoduo is like a broken kite, burying the bitterness of first love in the bottom of my heart, no longer attaching to my hometown and family, and flying to the more distant sky. What I haven't forgotten is my dream about movies, which eventually became movie master.

Many successful people live alone in the city. Many mothers say that every time they call, different women answer the phone, but they don't feel their love. Dodo never found his most cherished love again.

There is still time.

When Dodo returned to his hometown again, he attended Alfredo's funeral. Together with him, there is a paradise cinema that accompanied his childhood. He looked up at the place he knew best, and his eyes were full of sadness and sighs.

Everyone's life is tempered by gains and losses, just like those kissing scenes cut by Alfredo. Only by cutting them out can the film be shown and seen by more people.

Going through the scene can only be burned to ashes, or treasured in someone's heart.

Everything about homesickness: childhood, first love, friendship, affection.

On Douban, a bean friend commented under Paradise Cinema:

"Everyone's childhood, everyone's hometown, and everyone's first love are the last memories and feelings that have been accompanied to death and penetrated into the blood and soul."

Director tornado was born in Sicily, Italy, and there is always Sicilian complex in his works. Both Movie Paradise and The Beautiful Legend of Sicily set their stories in Sicily.

In a sense, the luxury cruise ship 1900 in The Legend of 1900 is also a moving island.

Tornado integrated homesickness into his movies, and Duoduo was like his own incarnation.

Paradise Cinema has many childhood memories, including his beautiful and bitter first lover and unforgettable friends like Uncle Alfredo.

In the director's edited version of the film, there is also a description of the affection between Duoduo and his mother. Mom seems to be very strict with Toto, but every night she has to wait for Toto to come back and see him asleep before sneaking down and locking the door. She left the door unlocked for 30 years after Duoduo left, so she took it off.

The most important person for Toto is Alfredo.

Duoduo will sit on Alfredo's bike and enjoy the warm sunshine on the country road. He will study film screening under Alfredo's guidance, cheat in exams without much education, show open-air movies to people without tickets in the square with Alfredo, and even save Alfredo's life in the fire.

Alfredo also regards Dodo as his own son, teaching him truth and giving him directions.

He doesn't want to be smart and studious. Like himself, he stays in the projection room between square inches all his life, in a quiet but closed town.

He wanted Duoduo to go to a wider world, even sacrificing his first love, and never saw Duoduo again until his death.

Such a deep love has been left in many homesickness.

In many homesickness, I can't let go of my first love Elena.

The girl likes bright eyes and red lips. He waits under the balcony rain or shine, showing the sweet first kiss, long-lost acacia, the joy of reunion and the bitterness of futile ending.

In the director's cut edition, there is a story about Duoduo's reunion with Elena after returning to his hometown. Elena married Toto's childhood playmate, the child who couldn't answer the questions at the blackboard, and helped Toto transport films.

In fact, the edited version of this account has actually destroyed the artistic conception of first love.

First love is more memorable, there is no need to pay homage. Let him go far away, what remains in memory is the best.

Just as Duoduo re-released the image that Elena secretly photographed at home when she was young, that beautiful face full of youthful breath was fixed into eternity in the film.

There is a madman sleeping in the town square in the movie. He always said that this square belongs to him. For people in small towns, that square will always be their hometown. So is Toto.

Many returned to my hometown, wandering in the dilapidated paradise movies, looking back at my youth, there were shadows everywhere.

Everyone will have their own childhood memories, and they are all hometown. Everyone will also have their own "paradise cinema", a "paradise" bearing childhood dreams and life marks.

Many people, like Duoduo, say, "Young people leave home, old people come back, and the local accent has not changed." . Some people have no chance to return to their familiar hometown. It has already changed beyond recognition, and the "paradise" of childhood has disappeared. Even some people, even this "beyond recognition" have no chance to see each other again, and their hometown has always remained in distant memories.

At the end of the movie, I went back to town and opened Alfredo's gift. It was a kiss cut by Alfredo more than 30 years ago. In front of the screen, I looked at these kissing highlights as if they had traveled through time and space, with a flash of surprise and throbbing light in my eyes and ripples in my heart.

This scene is very touching. The film of a movie is like memento mori in our mind, which reproduces the past, but things are different.

04 conclusion

I have to say, Paradise Cinema is the kind of movie that can walk into people's hearts. It touches the softest part of people's hearts with unpretentious film language and simple and warm stories.

A lot of actors, cute and clever children, handsome and affectionate young people, and the vicissitudes of adulthood are all impressive.

In particular, jacques perrin plays many adults with few scenes and lines, but he interprets the feeling of restraining inner turmoil after experiencing the world.

Many years later, jacques perrin played a heroic masculinity in another classic film with the same effect, which was released in 2004 and was called Spring in the Cowboy Class.