Chapter 588 Life is much more difficult than movies
In fact, there are quite a few domestic films that have been nominated for the three major European film festivals and even the Oscars.
But it's rare for an award-winning movie to make movie fans look forward to it so much.
For example, the other three Chinese-language films that were also shortlisted for the Venice Film Festival were rarely discussed.
Otherwise, as movie fans say, they actually don’t have that clear distinction between artistic films and commercial films.
It doesn’t mean that you don’t necessarily like literary movies, but you definitely like commercial movies.
But Li Yi's movies are different. Is "The Truman Show" considered a literary film?
Is "The Story of Hachiko" considered an art film?
They are also literary and artistic films, but as fans say, Li Yi's literary and artistic films are also different from other literary and artistic films.
He rarely adds anything difficult to understand to his films.
In fact, when audiences watch movies, many times, it’s very simple. Don’t do anything pretentious, just tell the story well.
But oftentimes, many literary and artistic film directors make literary and artistic films, whether to highlight their own uniqueness or artistic talent. They always like to add some things that make people look confused.
On the contrary, after watching the movie, the audience has no idea what the movie is about?
So even Li Yi said in "Cinema Paradiso" that this movie is slow-paced and relatively niche, but everyone is still looking forward to it.
In fact, there are many domestic film critics who go to the Venice Film Festival, but not many film critics can actually see the movie "Cinema Paradiso" for the first time.
On the one hand, it is because, as an opening film, not many people can actually enter the theater to see the opening film.
The Venice Film Festival is Italy, not China. Perhaps these film critics in China can get a sneak peek because of their status, but here, there are countless media and filmmakers from around the world, as well as movie fans from all over the world.
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However, the screening hall for the opening film of the Venice Film Festival can only accommodate a very limited audience.
Therefore, this is also the reason why it has been so long since I met domestic film critics and sent film reviews back to China.
Another thing is that this movie is indeed too popular. So many media have praised this movie in unison. It has a great influence on the fans of the Venice Film Festival. These Venice Film Festival cooperative media are actually equivalent to saying that Venice
The promotional mouthpiece of the film festival.
What's more, there are many filmmakers and celebrities who strongly recommend it, so it's hard to get a ticket for the six additional shows. It's no lie.
This also led to many film critics embarrassingly discovering that they could not buy tickets at all!
At the same time, when film critics write movie reviews, they are different from the short reviews written by ordinary movie fans. It also takes time for them to write a long review of a movie.
Many of them even need to be read several times before you know how to write them.
Especially for this kind of popular movie that is likely to win awards, film critics need to think twice.
However, soon, many film reviewers who went to the Venice Film Festival sent back reviews about "Cinema Paradiso".
Chen Jingning, a die-hard fan of Li Yi and a well-known online film critic, posted a review of "Cinema Paradiso" on his personal Weibo!
"About dreams and love, movies and times, "Cinema Paradiso" uses scattered and trivial memory fragments to eventually dissolve into an unstoppable emotional torrent, shocking our hearts.
"Cinema Paradiso" is not only about missed love and forgotten friendships, it is also a chronicle of the movie itself.
The male protagonist Duoduo: With his innocent heart, he has been associated with movies since he was a child, and this has been with him throughout his life.
The monotonous and peaceful town in Sicily, Italy, where he lives, also has moments of joy and joy among people.
The old cinema was packed with old people, young people, and children, all with their eyes wide open.
When someone is asleep, naughty children will tease him and put bugs into the sleeping person's mouth. The person who was teased wakes up and chases and beats him, which is a great pleasure.
Although this is an Italian movie, it does not prevent us from recalling childhood memories of movies.
Do you still remember the first movie we watched? Do you still remember the movie we watched in the open-air cinema?
Have we ever memorized the classic lines from those movies over and over again, and were moved by each sentence at the same time?
People shed tears and passed handkerchiefs around to wipe their eyes.
Duoduo is a child who loves movies. The film uses a lot of words to describe his love for movies. He secretly takes the cut film home and stores it in an iron box next to his father's photo.
Just after the war, everything was in ruins and the film industry was rising. Under this historical background, Duoduo lived and loved movies.
His eyes as he looked at the curtain were filled with stars, and there was a slight tremor in the air. It was the laughter coming from his heart, or some tears slipped down, and he would not wipe them away immediately.
At that time, Duoduo was still very young. He was so young that he didn’t know where his father had gone and when he would come back. He was so young that he didn’t know what the tears her mother shed meant.
His little love cannot be understood by his mother.
Mom doesn’t understand why Duoduo lost the money to buy milk just to watch a movie;
Mom didn’t understand why he was obsessed with those dark films that almost burned the house;
My mother didn’t understand why the usually well-behaved boy was not so obedient and still sneaked into the cinema.
He couldn't forget the lion head that projected a powerful beam of light, and he couldn't forget the vinyl film "stored" in the old man Alfredo.
Love is an attractive thing. His love for movies made him and the lonely projectionist Alfredo become close friends like father and son, and he met the love of his life Elena in the theater.
After a fire broke out in the theater, he took over the job of projectionist, and later moved away for love and became a famous director.
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Even when he returned 30 years later, the relic he received from his "old friend" Alfredo was a roll of film.
The moment the picture flashed, he laughed out loud with red eyes, and tears welled up in his eyes as he smiled.
Those lonely silent movies, piece by piece, are all scraps of film that Alfredo cut out in accordance with church regulations.
The long kiss in the picture, 30 years later, still made Duoduo's heart enchanted like the wine he brewed, but it made him burst into tears.
That old man Alfredo was a teacher, friend and father to Duoduo. His love for Duoduo was sincere and true!
He has a somewhat withdrawn personality and is a grumpy old man who is not easy to get along with. At the cinema called "Cinema Paradiso", Alfredo, the only projectionist, witnessed the joys, sorrows, joys and life changes of the town residents.
At that time, movies had to be censored by the local priest, and all kissing scenes were cut out, so he always had some scrap film there that fascinated Duoduo.
Duoduo's fascination with these films has nothing to do with kissing scenes, and it has nothing to do with sex, it's just pure love.
He gradually fell in love with this little boy who was a little naughty, a little stubborn, and chubby and as sweet as a milk candy.
He took Duoduo into the screening room and brought Duoduo into the happy place of his dreams.
In such a lonely childhood, it was he who held his hand, who helped him avoid his mother's beatings, who cut out small pieces of black film for him, and who put the mysterious and huge movie projector into his hands.
Put it in his hand.
He told Duoduo that you must love your job so that you can do it well.
He also loves showing movies, and although he always complains, he still works hard and enjoys it.
When the machine caught fire, everyone ran out of the theater. He was the only one who kept putting out the fire. Such instinctive rescue was saving the career he loved all his life. In this fire, he lost his eyes.
He lost his job, but gained another continuation of his life - Xiao Duoduo carried all the rest of his life.
He and Duoduo stayed in the screening room together and spent endless hours. However, Alfredo could see through the traces of time, his mind was as clear as a mirror, and he understood everything.
He did not want young people to continue on his path. He felt that Duoduo should have a broader sky. With his "strategy" and persuasion, Duoduo left his hometown and went to Rome to realize his dream.
He was afraid that Duoduo would give up halfway, so he ordered him firmly not to look back or miss him, his voice was decisive and deep.
Duoduo jumped on the train, and when it was driving away, he couldn't see Alfredo's face, only his slightly stooped back.
Maybe the old man had already understood that we would never see each other again after so many years, and he didn't want to turn around and let his sorrow break through and become Duoduo's final fetter, so he left without looking back.
Only Duoduo's sad eyes were left looking back from the train window.
With Duoduo leaving, the rest of his life was empty. He stayed at home alone and rarely went out. Even before his death, he kept nagging Duoduo.
He has lived such a lonely life for thirty years, and he knows that those thirty years ago pushed Duoduo out, and at the same time pushed himself into boundless loneliness.
How lucky do you have to be to meet such a guide in your life?
Alfredo believes that Duoduo must go out and see a world he has never seen before, and fall in love with more good girls. He needs Duoduo to fulfill the dream that he can never realize again.
Therefore, he did not hesitate to use lies to break up Duoduo and Elena.
What makes us yearn for is always heaven, what makes us heartbroken is always time. It also reminds us of some past events. Sometimes people give up something for their dreams. To this day, we don’t know what is right and what is wrong, but choice is choice.
, there are regrets for sure, but our ideals will never let us down.
Just like Duoduo, who is successful and famous, if he had stayed in a small town, he might have lived a happy life, but compared to his current achievements, that "little Duoduo" was too insignificant.
I think Duoduo would be very grateful for everything Alfredo did, because when he saw the pictures that he had cherished in his heart, they were put together again by Alfredo as the last gift, he smiled and cried.
Time will beautify all cruel things and put a hazy veil on pain.
Life is much more difficult than movies. There are always losses and gains. The only thing we can do is to keep moving forward. People and hearts only belong to ourselves, and that is where we should let go. This is the case in the turbulent years, and the rest of our lives will be short.
