Chapter 585 If there are no waves in the years, then the rest of your life will be without joy or sorrow.
Time flies by, just like the line in the movie: "Time flows like water!"
Thirty years later, Duoduo, who was already a famous director, received a call that Alfredo had passed away. He returned to his hometown with gray hair.
Her son came back. The camera looked down from the window on the second floor. Her son, who had grown from a teenager to a gray head, appeared at the door. She was not as excited or sad as she had imagined. She was as calm as welcoming her son who came home from get off work every day.
But is she really that calm?
Actually no, during the shot, she forgot to put down the wool in her arms. When the thread was pulled, first the needle fell to the ground with a "ding" sound, and then on the sweater that was about to be knitted on the chair, the wool was torn apart in circles.
After the yarn finally stopped, my mother called "Duoduo" softly from downstairs.
In 30 years, she changed from a young woman to a rickety old man. Her longing and waiting spread into wildly long white hair, flowing out from the zigzag wrinkles, and the wool in her hands fell out in a tangled manner. That
The wool is pulled open and stretched in circles, which is the release of thirty years of longing for my mother.
Time flows through the yarn, and the pulling of the yarn pulls out past events and memories.
She had been cleaning Duoduo's room for ten years, and everything was the same as when he left, including the film and projector that recorded Elena.
Loneliness has become a lifelong label for this woman, but she is at peace with it and lives a calm and determined life.
Loneliness is also deeply imprinted in every corner of "Cinema Paradiso".
In the pulled up quilt, in the tinkling wind chimes, in the gray hair, in the wrinkles like ravines, in the ruined cinema, in the old yellowed film...
Thirty long years have been filled with lonely faces.
She just said to Duoduo: "Your sister is living a good life and her children have grown up. I often receive letters from her, saying that this house is great and has been renovated. Thank you for everything!"
"I have a surprise for you, come here!" The mother, already full of wrinkles, came to a room with her son who also had gray hair.
She also asked him: "Are you tired? You can take a rest before the funeral!"
But Duoduo said: "No, mom, I have to take a flight in an hour!"
My mother immediately said unhappily: "I've been away for thirty years, I can't just leave!"
Entering the room that her mother had given her as a surprise, Duoduo was surprised to find that the room was almost the same as when he left. It was filled with everything he had.
She told Duoduo that every time she called him, a different woman answered the phone. She understood that if her son either hadn't met the one he loved, it meant that his heart belonged to someone else;
She told Duoduo that she had only loved one man in her life, and that was Duoduo's father, so she could understand Duoduo's feelings;
She told Duoduo that before he went into military service and when he was in love with Elena, every night, she would leave the door open, lie on the bed and listen to what was going on outside the house; when Duoduo returned home, she would quietly get up and
The door is locked;
She told Duoduo that after he became the projectionist in the town, she couldn't sleep every night. She would always put a key in the keyhole. She was afraid that she would suddenly fall asleep and that her son would not be able to enter the house.
Duoduo listened silently to his mother's ramble. He never knew that his mother had always cared about him so much.
But he didn't know that in thirty years, what mother would not care about her child?
Duoduo carried Alfredo's coffin. He never saw Alfredo again while he was alive!
But thinking about it, Alfredo must have heard a lot of people talking about Duoduo, so he could rest in peace.
On the street, outside the cafe, Duoduo was surprised to see a young girl who looked exactly like Alina. She was Alina's daughter.
He could never forget it. Maybe this was his first love. Who could easily forget that first love that was once hot and unforgettable?
It's a pity that if you miss a date, it will last 30 years.
The irony is that when Alfredo followed the girl who looked exactly like Elena to find Elena, he saw that his former goddess and lover was married to someone who couldn't even pick up a film.
A man with a birthmark who can hook up with a prostitute.
The impermanence of life is vividly displayed at this moment.
The classmate who was laughed at by everyone and couldn't even memorize the multiplication table turned out to be the one who won the beauty in the end.
But that’s life! You never know what will happen!
Thirty years, youth blooms at the snap of a finger.
His former lover was old and married, but Duoduo still found the phone number and called her. He wanted to see her, but he just wanted to give himself an answer!
At night, at the beach, Elena finally decided to go to the appointment after hesitating for a long time. She found Duoduo, who was contemplating. She still remembered that he loved to sit on the beach, and she still shed tears for their lost love. Duoduo held Elena's hand in his hands.
He looked at her deeply and said, "You are still so beautiful."
At that moment, he and Elena shed tears.
The two finally solved the previous mystery.
It was Alfredo who blocked it!
He lied to Elena and said that Duoduo had given up on this relationship!
Duoduo rushed to the Paradise Cinema like crazy, and in the screening room... amidst the dust and mess, among the piles of notes, he found what Elena had left for him, written on a piece of paper.
The letter on the back of the note on the film reel. On the note, Elena told Duoduo that she would only love him forever and vowed never to change her heart. Please remember to write to the address of the friend I left behind. I will always love you! Goodbye.
!Your Elena!
It's a pity that this letter was not seen by him until thirty years later!
Everything has long since changed.
Elena has forgiven Alfredo, how much?
Elena said that she could tell from his silence that Duoduo had forgiven Alfredo!
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In fact, if Duoduo stays in Sicily, it is unclear whether he and Elena can reach the end.
But I will definitely not become a great director.
Life is like this, there are gains and losses, there are successes and there are regrets.
Everything you get must be obtained in exchange for something you once owned.
Maybe being an ordinary projectionist on a small island and having three or five children with Elena would lead to a happier life.
But Duoduo is always pursuing unrealistic things, and unrealistic things are often not allowed, like those love scenes on film, like the love affair with the banker's daughter... Alfredo cruelly took away
Teenagers have many dreams: they are yours, but they stay with me and you cannot take them away.
The audience in the theater all brought in Duoduo, but they also had no answer.
Because everyone doesn't know whether they will have the opportunity to meet the only woman who is imprinted on their hearts when they are gray-haired.
This kind of choice is difficult: if you choose to reject fantasy and love, life will be easier and you will be able to achieve fame easily, but some regrets will last a lifetime. If you choose love and dreams, the road is destined to be bumpy, and you will inevitably be hurt again.
Injuried.
In the movie, thirty years pass in just a few dozen minutes. In life, every day of thirty years has to be lived through the body. There is no paradise here.
But where will you be in thirty years? What will you look like? Who will be by your side? Who will kiss your face? Whose name will you call in your dreams? Will someone touch your hair? You
Who is listening to your voice? Who is watching your back?
If we meet again in thirty years, will you still recognize me? Will your eyes sparkle for a moment? Will you say, "You are still so beautiful"?
What makes us yearn for is always heaven, and what makes us heartbroken is always time.
Duoduo walked into the simple hut of the late Alfredo: on the wall were stills from his movies, and on the table were his photos...
Alfredo's wife told Duoduo that Alfredo still missed him until his death.
His wife handed Duoduo a box of film. She said that Alfredo asked her to give it to him before he died. She did not know what was recorded in the film.
Duoduo called Elena again, he hoped she would go to Rome with him.
Elena rejected him and told Duoduo: "Everything is over. Hugging each other tightly last night was just a beautiful dream. I am satisfied with having such a beautiful dream."
She told Duoduo: "I have been paying attention to your achievements. I watch every movie you make and I listen to all the news about you! But everything has passed and nothing can come back. There is no future, only the past.
, it’s like the unfulfilled dreams we had when we were kids, isn’t it?”
In fact, in the original movie plot, there was a passionate (harmonious) love scene between Alfredo and Elena, but Li Yi decisively deleted it.
Maybe Italians think that you can do whatever you want after getting married, but this really ruins the beauty of the entire movie, and makes the reunion thirty years later bloody. At least Li Yi felt that that scene,
It is a blasphemy against the pure first love thirty years ago! Therefore, when Duoduo and Elena reunited, they just hugged each other tightly, and nothing like that happened!
After all, as Elena said, everything has passed, just like the unfulfilled dreams of childhood!
Since you have missed it, then you have missed it!
When I was young, I had many unrealistic fantasies. I thought love was everything, but there is more to life than love!
He is a famous director, and there is no shortage of applause, flowers, and even women along the way. But are these what Duoduo really wants? He has realized his dream, but he can't find love in his heart, and he never has the same feeling as when he met Elena.
Throbbing, the reunion last night was just a dream. Elena revealed this dream, and he became farther and farther away from the past.
After experiencing a circle of the outside world, it is a complete reincarnation to return to the starting point. Isn't life like this? If you never go out to see and achieve some results, at least for yourself, it is not perfect.
Duoduo's Paradise Cinema is the starting point and the end of his dream.
The square was once again filled with people.
The Cinema Paradiso collapsed in the explosion.
When the cinema collapsed, the roaring applause filled the town filled with smoke, accompanied by the smiling faces of young people and the sighs and tears of old people.
Because Cinema Paradiso belongs to the nostalgic old people, but not to the young people of the new era!
It was not only Cinema Paradiso that collapsed, but also the past that cannot be returned!
The collapse of this cinema, which once brought laughter to countless people, also means the end of an era!
People at that time were very pitiful and very happy. There were no bustling entertainment cities or midnight shows with singing and dancing. They only had one belief: movies. They laughed with it, cried with it, and were completely immersed in this paradise.
, and they don’t know that, in fact, their life is a movie. Maybe not exciting enough, maybe not romantic enough, but real and within reach. For the people in the town, this is paradise, and for Alfredo
, here are just machines, and he himself is a gear, rotating all the time, until one day, he collapsed along with the worn-out machine. But for Duoduo, this is the place he yearns for,
There is Alfredo's magical magic, the priest's unnecessary harshness, and people's joy and sorrow. It's like an alternative world.
But all this ended with the collapse of Cinema Paradiso!
The era of Cinema Paradiso is over!
Corresponding to Duoduo’s never-ending departure, the madman in the square represents the other extreme:
Trapped in the small world of the square all my life, I shout a line every time I appear:
The square is mine. The square is mine. The square is mine.
Once upon a time, everyone would burst out laughing when they saw this madman say this.
But now, when they hear this sentence again, no one can laugh!
Yes, the square is mine. Maybe only in the simple world of a madman, it will remain the same for thirty years without changing. But for other people, children will grow up, young people will grow old, and old people will die.
In ten years, things have already changed a lot.
Thirty years is enough to change a lot.
Duoduo left, leaving this dreamy town, because it no longer belonged to him when he left thirty years ago!
Duoduo immediately got busy after returning to Rome.
His secretary told him that there was a mountain of congratulatory messages after the film won the award, but Duoduo was completely indifferent.
Maybe he would have been ecstatic about it once, but now, he couldn't show even a happy smile.
Because all of this was obtained by him in exchange for many, many other important things, and gaining it also meant that he lost a lot!
In fact, in essence, he is still the boy on the small island. Returning to the old place and meeting the old lover again, the past can no longer be undone, but my dear, you are still my first and final love.
This is why he still calls Elena, hoping that she can go to Rome with him. This is also why, after Elena refuses and says that everything is over, he will say, no, I
Wouldn't think so!
In fact, Alfredo also knew about it, so he left this roll of film to Duoduo!
At the end of the movie, Duoduo sat alone in the cinema, looking at the film Alfredo left for him, which contained all the kissing scenes that the priest had cut out that he had never asked for. Duoduo gradually laughed,
Laughing and crying at the same time, this is the cinema of paradise left to Alfredo.
The kisses and hugs that kept switching on the screen, those childhood secrets, the missing piece of the past, Alfredo came to help him complete it, that was the first thing he asked him for, that
It was his secret, Alfredo remembered, he destroyed his first love, but at this moment, he gave it back.
Maybe everyone has his own cinema in his heart, where there are some movies and some people. It doesn’t matter whether there is a house or not. After the cinema is demolished, Duoduo can still cry and smile because
It has been immortalized in his mind. The cinema, which has no space, still keeps the most beautiful things for him in his heart.
The pieces of film that were cut out are like the pieces of love that were missed due to the force of life. You may never be able to correctly connect them to the original film, but you can splice these fragments together to form a movie.
The film makes people moved, because this is life.
The movie is over!
But the entire screening room was silent.
"Cinema Paradiso" is indeed full of the flavor of reading through the vicissitudes of life and recalling the past years. The tone of the movie has a documentary feel, recording the family affection, love, friendship and own ideals of Xiao Duoduo during his growth.
This is not a movie that can be summed up in one sentence.
Different people have different opinions on this movie.
The movie uses a slow pace to tell the story of the child named Duoduo, a story about movies, about friendship, about love, about growth, and about dreams.
There is no excessive sensationalism and no big scenes.
In fact, this is also a very special one among Li Yi's films, because as the most sensational tear-jerking director in China, he is very, very restrained this time.
Domestic movie fans, media people, and film critics all believe that if Li Yi wanted to, he could be more sensational, but he didn't.
But it is precisely because of this that this movie is so memorable.
I don’t know how long it took, but everyone in the theater suddenly stood up and burst into applause!
Each of them has a happy expression on their face!
The older viewers had tears in their eyes because they saw themselves in this movie.
"Cinema Paradiso" allows many people to feel the most traditional beauty of movies at such a moment!
Emotional resonance should be the biggest element besides film narrative!
Maybe not everyone has a lot, but everyone has a lot.
Everyone has their own Cinema Paradise, but maybe everyone’s Cinema Paradise is different.
But the last scene will be deeply remembered by countless people, and perhaps it will become one of the most classic scenes in this movie.
At this moment, amidst the applause, many people couldn't help but think of what director Bertolt Manning said before, that this film is a love letter to cinema!
