The magical realist fantasy film "Happy Lazzaro".
The film takes place in a remote and backward mountainous village, which looks a bit like a rural scene in China in the 1990s. But these peasants were working for the slave owners, the Marquise, and were suffering exploitation.
Peasants under slavery
This is in Italy, people who come to collect rent have motorcycles, how can slavery exist? The noodles before the movie explore the reasons and are confused.
The boy in the village, Lazzaro, looks stupid and looks exactly like Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau. Lazzaro was friendly in the village, but many people exploited Lazzaro like a marquise.
Exactly like Trudeau's Lazzaro
Scene 1: An uncle asks him to help keep the night for a while, but tricks Lazzaro into keeping the night; Scene 2: Collecting tobacco, many people give tobacco to Lazaro to load the car; Scene 3: Lazaro is kind enough to make coffee for the villagers, but those people have left without appreciation; Scene 4: Lazzaro has a fever, and no one wants to let him sleep next to him.
Lazzaro is doing farm work
In the face of more scenes than above, Lazzaro is innocent eyes, happy smiles.
The people in the village all worked for the marquise, without any income, and the harvest was handed over to the marquise.
marchioness
One day, the Marquise drove to the village with her children, intending to live here for a while. The Marquis's son was named Tacredi and carried a flip phone. This should be around 2000. For the slavery system here, noodles are even more confused.
When Takrédi arrived in the village, no farmer dared to look directly at the nobleman, only Lazaro greeted Takredi, and the two people with disparities in background actually became good brothers at the invitation of Takrédi.
Lazzaro and Tacredi
Takreddy was a sick and rebellious teenager who couldn't bear his mother's exploitation of the peasants and hid in the mountains. Hiding in Lazaro's mountain residence, he also plotted to write a letter to his mother, saying that he had been kidnapped and paid a ransom to release him. The Marquise knew her son and didn't care about it.
Lazzaro was drenched in rain and had a fever. No one in the farmer under the hill wanted to accept Lazaro staying that night. Lazzaro had to live with his grandmother.
The rich lady who came to the village with Tacredy really thought that Takrédi had been kidnapped and called the police. The police came in a helicopter and were surprised to get here! Slavery has been abolished for hundreds of years, how can there be such a system in modern civilized society, in the remote countryside of Italy!
The sharecropper system has been dead for many years
The police explained that the work was now contracted and paid
The police led everyone out of the countryside to apply for a household registration and settle in the city.
The villagers leave the backward village
Lazzaro went up the hill to find Tacredi after the rain and accidentally fell into the valley.
A hungry old wolf walked up to Lazzaro and was going to eat him, but smelled the smell of Lazzaro, the smell of a good man, and walked away. At this time, Lazaro woke up. When I went to the village, the village was in a dilapidated state, and the room was crawling with dust and cobwebs, as if a long time had passed.
Lazaro wakes up
Guided by the thieves who came to steal, Lazzaro came to the city and met the former villagers. The villagers are dozens of years old, and Lazzaro's countenance has not changed. Villager Antonia recognizes Lazaro and worships him as a deity, while the other villagers think lazaro is a ghost and is particularly disgusted.
Antonia saw Lazaro again
Antonia in her youth
These villagers were rescued from the exploitation of the marquise, still endured the invisible exploitation of modern civilization, lived at the bottom of modern civilized society, and lived a life of deception.
Lazzaro comes to civilized society and wants to find Takrédi. When Lazaro saw a middle-aged man in his forties and fifties, he recognized the other person at a glance as Tacredi. Tacreddy couldn't believe that decades had passed and Lazaro was still the same as he had first seen it. The two reminisced about their youth, and Tacredi invited Lazaro and the others to visit their home in the afternoon.
Lazzaro with middle-aged and elderly Takareddy
On the afternoon of the engagement, Lazzaro and a few villagers went to visit the former Marquis, Tacredi, who was now a poor middle-aged man and refused to let them into his home. Lazzaro learns from Tarcredy's wife that the bank had ruined his birth.
That evening, Lazzaro and his party passed by the church and were attracted by the church music. Church staff forbade these inferior persons to enter the church. Lazzaro and his party left, the piano was silent, and the music actually floated out of the church and followed Lazzaro.
Lazzaro in the night light
The next day, the ignorant Lazzaro came to the bank and asked the bank to return the money to Tacredi. Lazzaro had been carrying with him the "weapon" given to Lazzaro by his young friend Tacredi, the slingshot, and all the people at the bank mistakenly thought it was a gun and were frightened. When they knew it was a slingshot, many people pushed Lazaro to the ground, punching and kicking.
Lazzaro fell at the bank
Lazzaro lay motionless on the ground, staring wide-eyed at the wolf, who turned and left the bank and left the city.
The wolf, who could recognize the smell of the good guys, left
Lazaro left, gone. The saint Lazzaro fell off a cliff and did not die, but died in the punches and kicks of modern people.
Lazzaro is a metaphorical savior who redeems the sins of the world with kindness, but this complex urban society can no longer tolerate him.
Happy Lazzaro