Introduction: How uneasy the situation is, how crazy Rose Island is.
The film "The Incredible History of Rose Island" is a comedy film adapted by young Italian director Sidney Hiberia based on the real rose island in history, which tells the story of a whimsical engineer in Italy in the 1960s who was unwilling to compromise the complicated rules of society, used his expertise and friends to "build" an island of his own, and rushed to confirm the legitimacy of "Rose Island". At the end of the movie, we see the historical fact that Rose Island was blown up, and we also see the reality of the existence of the "Republic of Rose Island", a country that has existed for less than two years, which is the existence of a real utopia in history.
1. Rose Island that existed in history
1968, the year of the birth of the Republic of Rose Island, was an extraordinary year in history: the assassination of Martin Luther King, the rise of the Storm in France in May, the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the occupation of Czechoslovakia, the assassination of President Kennedy, the march of 50,000 Americans for the poor, the Vietnam War as it was underway... In the turbulent world situation, Italy, which is developing at a high speed towards capitalist industrialization, also has a large-scale student workers' protest movement at this time, which is not only against capitalism, but also against parties divorced from the masses and highly institutionalized trade unions.
The protagonist of history, George Rosa, is a maritime engineer, but due to the need for government tedious layers of approval, resulting in the construction period of offshore buildings is always extended indefinitely, many of George's ingenuity can not be realized, and the helplessness of the government makes George's idea of "building a country" suddenly arise and gradually realize in a few years.
Compared with the relaxed picture of "filling the core with water" in the film, the real history is more demanding on technology, and this happens to be George's strength, such an artificial island declared independence on June 24, 1968, and the island was equipped with many entertainment and commercial facilities: restaurants, bars, nightclubs, etc.[1], attracting many tourists to the "Rose Republic", which was keenly discovered by the Italian government and believed that George's trip was to evade tax bills. Soon four gendarmes and a group of tax collectors landed on the island and took control of them, and less than a year later, they were blown up by the Italian Navy in early 1969, which Giorgio himself called "the only war Italy has ever won."
2. From real history to screen illusion
At the beginning of the birth of the film, there was a movie - DreamWorks, and the film has always had the nickname of "Dream of the Screen", and then in Freud's discussion of dreams, it is not difficult to find that mainstream commercial films have very similar characteristics and functions to dreams/dreams, which can bring satisfaction and pleasure to the audience, thus making up for the shortcomings and lack in reality.
In The Incredible History of Rose Island, Giorgio's experience is compared to real history, and the film adds a number of dreamy and considerable elements to him. The first is "in the name of love", and the various dissatisfaction with the government in history to trigger the "founding" intention of George, although there is a performance in the film, but the "forced" of Georgio is more than three years apart, Gabriela, the two after meeting the collision of thought inspired Giorgio's determination to "build his own world", such a narrative plot for Giorgio's driving force put on a romantic love coat - "because you live in your own world, and this world is not all yours", This sentence aroused Giorgio's fierce fighting spirit, and also stimulated the audience's emotional expression.
Secondly, the film deliberately reduces the difficulty of "building an island" - from the bathtub to the sea, the foundation problem is easily expressed, and there is a larger depiction of the "bungee scene" after the completion of the film, one is to meet the film's ornamentality, the handsome men and women at sea frolicking and the scorching sun of three or two workers, which one is more attractive to the audience at a glance; the second is in line with the theme of the film, the film intention is not to show the difficulty of building an island, but to give Giorgio the setting of "lonely genius pursuing absolute freedom". It shows his circle with the whole society at that time, thus satirizing the arrogance and low energy of the social government at that time, and At this time, Giorgio was not only the president of the "Rose Republic", but also noah who established the ark. The film deliberately uses the carnival of the island and the fierce movement in the city to form a set of contrasting montages, how uneasy the situation is, how crazy rose island is, it has become the utopia of people's hearts in that period.
3. Freedom and inventors in the era of mechanical large-scale industry are in tune with each other
Giorgio is a creative engineer, from dismantling televisions to building airplanes and cars, we can see the talent of this person, and from driving unlicensed airplanes and unlicensed cars, we can see that he is out of place with the world, and he is indeed "living in his own world" as Gabriela said. The number of people who want to change the world has been countless from ancient times to the present, but the fact is that very few people can change the world, and more people are just all sentient beings who abide by the order that has been established in the world, or intend to become the destroyers of the order, and Georgio chooses to "establish his own order" - absolute freedom.
He had ideas and abilities, and so he succeeded, and although briefly, he also made history— the Republic of Rose Island, recognized by the Council of Europe, urged the United Nations to move the borders of international territorial waters around the world, recorded the first and only invasion committed by Italy, all from the engineers of a turbulent era, after the three industrial revolutions, a powerful rebellion against the bourgeoisie under the torrent of the era of mechanical worship, The character setting of Giorgio in the film once again completes the mission of building a utopia.
epilogue
The historical facts of the existence of Rose Island are the utopias that people wanted at that time, the film is a dream-making machine invented by mankind, and Giorgio has completed the mission of a historical and current utopia, and the director uses a film to show the audience the "perfection of non-existence" from the inside out, and completes an imagination about utopia with the audience.
[1] Baidu Encyclopedia entry Rose Island Republic https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E7%8E%AB%E7%91%B0%E5%B2%9B%E5%85%B1%E5%92%8C%E5%9B%BD/10972004?fr=aladdin