Title: Cinema Paradiso

Also known as: Starlight in My Heart

Director: Gispi Tornatoli

Actor : Philip. Nore, Savatelli. Casio

Type: Classic Film

Length: 180 minutes Director's Cut Special Complete Edition

Language: Italy

Release Time: 1989

Introduction:

This film tells the story of a child growing up in the village of Giancardo, Sicily, Italy. The protagonist Duoduo is an eccentric child, while Aifeiduo is the projectionist of the "Paradise Theater". Because of the thread of the movie, they have established a relationship as both a teacher and a friend. The projectionist plays the role of a leader, leading Duoduo to grow throughout his childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and even old age. After his death, he left a box of film to Duoduo, which reconnected Duoduo's memories and emotions that had been lost for thirty years.

This film tells people's childhood memories through the naughty Duoduo, a kind of laughter and carefree dreams. The unique "Italian humor" in the film reminds people of "Life is Beautiful". It is also a happy movie, but after the end, it makes people think endlessly. Have we abandoned our past ideals in unknown corners of our hearts for a long time? No matter what you are now, let us start again to find the long-lost self.

Three works of Italian director Tornatore - "Cinema Paradiso" (also translated as Starlight Accompanying My Heart), "The Pianist on the Sea" (also translated as Sound and Light Accompany Me Flying), "Sicily" "Beautiful Legend" (also translated as True Love Accompanying Me), we can define them as the "Time and Space Trilogy" or the "Searching Trilogy". The director uses the same narrative structure - "return".

In "Cinema Paradiso", Duoduo returns to the small town of his childhood. He returns to the reality of the movie and his love that seems to have disappeared; in "The Pianist on the Sea", it is the trumpet player who is in despair. Return to the abandoned ship where she once lived with "1900", and return to the music that is closest to "people"; in "Malena", when Malena follows her husband back to the town that brought her shame, she returns to To her love for a person stored in a small town.

A few years ago, I saw "Cinema Paradiso" on TV. It was already halfway through, and I finished it in a hurry without really experiencing it carefully, but I already knew it was a good movie and included it in my list. Collection plan. A few years later, I met it again by chance. It should be said that the disc dealers and pirates also have the vision to take out this 1989 old film, repackage it, and sell it again.

What I bought was the Golden Globe D9 version recommended by flyerzeng. I have a belief. In fact, belief is a bit exaggerated, but it is just my own guideline for buying discs: blockbusters famous for their sound effects and pictures must be If you want to buy a D9 DVD with DTS, such as "Pearl Harbor", "Jurassic Park", etc., it would be better if there are translated outtakes; D5 movies that are based on plot can meet the requirements, such as "Life is Beautiful", "Life Is Beautiful" and "Jurassic Park". Schindler's List" is it. Of course, if you have money, it’s no problem to buy all D9s. I originally wanted to buy the D5 version of "Cinema Paradiso" this time, but then I saw the wanted version in the disc newspaper saying that there was a bad version of the D5 version, and I didn't have a D5 version of the film for sale here, so I ended up buying this version of the disc. My only dissatisfaction with this disc is that there are no extras.

This disc has a great feature, that is, it restores the feeling of watching a movie to the greatest extent possible. Some people may have noticed that the film was deliberately left with edges when it was shown, but there is another very important point. The film looks like it was watched in a cinema. There are film scratches, which cannot be seen in other DVD films. (except gun discs). Of course, these marks are very small and cannot be seen if you don't pay attention. This shows the painstaking efforts of the producer.

The film contains life experiences, changes in life, the failure of love, and various scenes in the cinema. Either others have commented on these, or I don’t want to say more about them. I just picked out a few that interest me.

After listening to the story Alfredo told Toto about "The Soldier Who Admired the Princess", what do you think? I thought at the time that it was because the soldier found something more worthy of pursuit than having a princess. This is certainly not the answer in the film.

Toto later told Alfredo that the answer he thought was because the soldier never wanted to have the princess, but wanted to leave his presence in her heart forever. Does this herald the demise of their love?

Because this film spans a long time and has many characters, many people have just finished it in one or two scenes in this three-hour film. I think the director must have cut out a lot of scenes with supporting characters. Unfortunately, there are no behind-the-scenes to watch, so I have to watch it several times, but there will always be surprises. Here are a few examples. Ciccio, a Neapolitan, is the owner of the new Cinema Paradiso (I don’t know who the first boss of Cinema Paradiso was. He may have been from the town government or the priest). He first appeared in the square. He was selling nylon socks; the second time he appeared, he won the football lottery and fainted with joy (no one fished in troubled waters, the folk customs are so simple); the third time he appeared, he was already a rich man, after the Cinema Paradiso burned down In front of the ruins. There are many scenes of him later, so I won’t go into details. There is also the uncle who always sleeps in the movie theater. He always says the same thing after being teased. Later, he stopped sleeping in the new movie theater, but he recited the lines of the touching movie he watched several times, even FINE. It was really funny. . There is also the uncle who always sits in the front row on the second floor and spits down (children should not imitate this), the uncle who manages the cinema...their scenes are all intriguing.

Thinking about it, I have also watched a few Italian movies, and I feel that their boys have a very strong sexual desire. In "Malena", the protagonist actually got sick because of her burning desire. Can you imagine a peer around you who got sick and couldn't go to school because of this? In the end, my father took me to a brothel to solve the problem for the first time. The male protagonist of this film did not give his first shot to his beloved girlfriend (who he did not know at the time), but to a prostitute who haunted the cinema. It seems that Italian prostitutes have a long way to go. The first time to teach Italian men is to fuck you. This is related to whether their sexual life will be happy in the future. The first time is really important. The male protagonist has not married for thirty years (cannot be said to be single) because he cannot forget the heroine, but he has a normal sex life. They have completely separated sex and love.

Toto's boy, youth, and old age were filmed by three actors respectively. Although their faces are not very similar, their demeanor is somewhat similar. The young Toto is so cute, especially his sharp mouth. Of course, the actor who plays the elderly Toto is the most different from the previous two, but the director first let him appear in the dark and let him take the lead, so the transition seemed much more natural. But I think he is very similar to Fukuyama Masaharu.

Finally, Cinema Paradiso was targeted and blasted, and some people gathered around to watch. There are many familiar faces inside. Among them, the older generation remembers the happy times spent there, while the younger generation just comes to watch the fun. Cinema Paradiso is a thing of the past like the golden age of cinema, but the wonderful memories have not been taken away and will stay with us for a lifetime.

While watching the movie, my eyes filled with tears twice: once when Toto returned to his hometown again, and his mother took him to the house of memories. When the main melody sounded and I looked at the items full of memories, I I couldn't help it; and in the final kissing collection, I saw those kissing shots in black and white with different degrees of wear. What filled the screen was Alfredo's love for Toto.

I like Italian films because they are artistic, lifelike, humorous, watchable, and worth collecting. After watching Italian films, you will feel that this is Sicilian culture and this is Italian people.