Growth does not require time, what is needed is experience, people, all grow up overnight.
Friendly reminder: Today's movie is not suitable for crowd viewing. Find a lazy afternoon and quietly enjoy it alone. On the one hand, this film is particularly heartfelt, like a youth elegy, the troubles of confused teenagers nagging, dense, flustered and a little sad; on the other hand, it is the naked scenes and beautiful chest close-ups that jump out from time to time in the film, and too many people directly become the scene of social death - "God's Hand".
Before introducing the film, it is necessary to introduce the "hand of God" meme. In the 1980s, maradona, a god of football, was at his peak, and in the semi-final of the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, Argentina played against England, Maradona broke the English goal with his hand, and the referee judged that the goal was valid, which was jokingly called "God's Hand".
In 1986, the italian town of Naples, where fabito's family of five lived;
His father, Savigno, is a well-known, easy-going man, very intimate with his wife and family, and plays the traditional and kind father figure.
Mother Maria is kind and gentle, and has a naughty and cute side;
For example, she would often tease Fabio's grandmother, teasing her until she cursed her;
Occasionally, in front of his family, he would show the acrobatics of throwing oranges; he would call his neighbors as assistants and say that the famous Italian director Reilly had the neighbors make the protagonists to make movies.
After the neighbors were very excited, the family apologized to each other in a daze.
He would also hire someone to pretend to be a bear on vacation to scare his sometimes slightly arrogant husband.
Older brother Maquino, a college student and an extra, is currently busy auditioning for Fellini's new film. Although it is only a passerby, this is his dream and is regarded by him as the first step into the show business circle.
Sister Daniela, in the whole film, she appears in the scene, has always been in the toilet, not in the scene, when asked, the family said she went to the toilet.
Rather than being a real person, Daniela's symbolism and symbolization tendencies are more pronounced.
Fabito is still in high school, full of expectations and confusion about the future and life, at the moment, he has two most important people, one is Maradona, he is a veteran football fan;
The other was his sister-in-law, Patricia.
In the crowd, in the crowd, wearing a white dress, a very prominent sexy woman is the aunt.
The bus that was supposed to be taken was late, and a man in the car stopped Patricia, who said he knew patricia and her husband had been childless and asked her to get on the bus and he would help them get pregnant.
Patricia came to the man's room, a very magical bungalow, with floor lamp crystal lamps standing quietly on the ground. When the man lights the crystal lamp, it is like a dreamlike scene: fireworks blooming on the horizontal line slowly burst open in front of his eyes.
The man summoned the little monk and asked Patricia to kiss the little monk. Then the little monk put a wad of money in her bag, and the man touched Patricia's ass with one hand...
Back at home, her husband, Franko, questioned why she had returned so late, and then flipped through the money in her bag.
Franco shouted that Patricia was a slut, said she was sick again, and beat her, and the two chased after her in the room.
Patricia hid in her room and called Fabito's parents to quell the war.
When Fabito arrived with his parents, Fabito saw his disheveled, naked aunt, gaunt and sexy, the first time he saw a woman's breasts...
Father and Fabito came to persuade her uncle Franco, "Do you know that she is sick, and the doctors say that she has mental problems."
"What if she really saw the little monk?" Only Fabito believed what his sister-in-law said, and his father and uncle looked at him in disbelief.
The matter came to an end, and the Fabito family returned to their grandmother's house for dinner. A big family, there are so many characters that they can't figure out the relationship.
Everyone was talking, chatting, laughing, and clamoring.
The 42-year-old, still single, finally brought what she called the world's most handsome boyfriend. But this man turned out to be a 70-year-old, somewhat lame retired policeman, and the whole family tried to be friendly and polite.
Until the man spoke, with an electronic voice, and when he said hello with some intermittent sentences, everyone could not hold back any longer.
There was no sarcasm, but the scene was really funny.
Aunt Patricia, out of place with everyone. When my aunt's 70-year-old boyfriend chatted with her, she felt noisy and threw the electronic speaker's battery into the sea.
When everyone was on the boat, she took care of herself and sunbathed in front of everyone.
She also asked Fabito to bring her a towel, and looking at her nephew's physiological reaction and uneasy expression, she laughed and said, "You have grown so big."
In short, the Fabito family was a trivial and ordinary family of love, until a phone call broke the silence.
Father's lover called again to ask his father to hurry up with the divorce, this time receiving the call from the mother.
The two had a big fight, and it turned out that Maria had long known of the existence of her lover, and had asked her father to break off contact with her a few years ago, but her father refused on the grounds that the situation was complicated.
They quarreled, Daniela hid in the toilet again, Fabito was terrified and shivered uncontrollably, and his brother Fakino hugged him and kept comforting him.
After the quarrel, the mother hid in her room and cried, throwing oranges at the same time, trying to calm herself down, and finally lost her voice and cried.
The phone rang again, Dad looked shocked, Mom and kids gathered around,
"Maradona is moving to Napoli!" The father said the news with a shocked face, and Fabito and his brother embraced and cheered excitedly, as if the quarrel had never happened.
The World Cup is coming, and almost everyone is sitting around the TV, witnessing Maradona's Hand of God and his wonderful hat-trick.
The streets cheered, Fabito was thrilled, Mom and Dad held hands again, and they seemed to reconcile.
In order to find their former warmth, Fabito's parents decided to go on vacation to Roccaraso. They wanted to take Fabito, but Fabito said maradona had a ball game and refused.
No one thought that it was a farewell between him and his parents. In the holiday house, Fabito's parents died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Until his death, the father thought that his vertigo was a joke on his wife, and he was still saying, "Maria, don't do this kind of prank..."
Fabito and his brother didn't even see their last side. My brother had been crying bitterly, and strangely enough, Fabito had not shed a single tear until the funeral.
After that, his life changed drastically, and the baroness upstairs, over sixty, invited him to the house under the pretext of letting Fabito help him catch bats.
Then, taking away his first and calming Fabito's wounded heart.
When Fabitto went to see her, her aunt said that she had actually met the little monk and was actually pregnant, but a week later Franko committed domestic violence again and miscarried herself.
Disheartened, she decided to go to the mental hospital, but Fabito still firmly chose to believe.
On the school playground, everyone was laughing and playing football, and suddenly Fabito was crying, tearing his heart out.
He seemed to have walked into the dead end of his youth, and for a moment it was as if everyone in the world had abandoned him, and he stood dazed at the crossroads of Naples, not knowing where to go.
He met the smuggler Alima, started going to bars, and lived some shaky life until Alima was caught.
During the visit, Alima woke him up: You are free, you can go wherever you want.
Later, Fabito met the director Acapuno, who said that he wanted to make a movie, and the reality was too painful, so he wanted to use the film to make up dreams.
Two people go all the way, all the way to talk, this paragraph seems to be the author and his own dialogue, the pain in real life and the dream in the artistic illusion intertwined, constantly wrestling in a person's heart, and it seems to be a middle-aged man's advice to young teenagers.
Fabito was constantly stabbed by Acapuno, kept reminiscing, and finally forced out his inner words, shouting hysterically: he had been left behind by everyone.
Acapno told him: Don't break.
Fabito turned and walked away, he finally found his way, he was going to Rome, he was going to make movies, he was going to make up his dreams. On the long-distance train, he saw the little monk waving at him...
There are too many factors to decipher and play with in the film: the sister Daniela finally walks out of the toilet, the little monk they see, the TV that uses the long stick to change the station, the "Once Upon a Time in America" that has never been seen, Fabito's first sexual experience, etc., due to the length factor, the audience can only enjoy it for themselves.
Stylistically, The Hand of God is more like an '80s Tale of Werther's Troubles, in which Fabitto constantly swings, explores, and struggles between love and sex, soccer and movies, dreams and reality, interspersed with the trivial routines of life. It is like an Italian Wong Kar-wai film, with many unspoken monologues, with an air of decadence and sadness; and the shadow of the French New Wave Godard, using extremely bland trivialities to piece together the nothingness of life and the reality of the film; and fellini's influence, especially the last passage of Fabito and Acapuno's dialogue, like a reproduction of "Eight and a Half Parts", which is a continuous excavation and examination of the self.