2019 turning the page, towards 2020, with a sense of ceremonial summary is also more than in previous years, in addition to different dimensions of the "annual top ten", may wish to pick out the "best of the decade", of course, the last is indispensable to a new opening: 2020 movies, which movie to open?
After experiencing the "difficult peace" and "I am too south" of 2019, the beginning of 2020 may wish to be warm and soft! The 4k re-release of "Beautiful Life", which will be released on January 3, is undoubtedly an excellent choice to start a beautiful 2020 with it.
Released in Italy in 1997, this classic received 70 awards and 51 nominations from around the world, including the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and the Cannes Jury Prize that year, and it is worth mentioning that the director, screenwriter and starring of the film, Roberto Bernini, also became the first person in the history of the Oscars to win the Film Emperor Award for foreign language films.
More than 20 years later, this "fairy tale" is still moving. For Chinese audiences, the film does not even have a star celebrity, but Douban still has more than 780,000 netizen marks, and the rating is as high as 9.5, ranking fifth in the Douban Top 250 movie list, which can be said to be quite powerful. The goodness of human nature, the greatness of fatherly love, and the beauty of love in the film are still warm and contain light. Many people regardEd Life Is Beautiful as "the greatest comedy," while many say the film has "the most beautiful lies" and "the most beautiful smile." The comedy begins, the tragedy ends, laughter with tears, and I hope that the sentence "Princess, good morning!" The classic line can be played again at the end.
Set against the backdrop of World War II, A Beautiful Life tells the tragic fate of a Jewish family. Concentration camps, gas chambers, endless oppression and killings, just the thought of these words and concepts can make one shudder. But "Beautiful Life" does not show in a bitter or bloody way, on the contrary, it uses a "game" to make the ugliness and narrowness of the war invisible, and it uses black comedic humor, light and funny limbs, sincere and gentle emotions to give the world a trace of goodwill and warmth.
"Beautiful Life" is also a story of "calling for love in the center of the world", but it is not a cheap soap opera or a plastic dog blood plot, there is the best look of love in the play, and there is also the best look of father's love.
The protagonist Guido and the female teacher Dora, the first encounter of "falling from the sky", is full of joy. Electric flint, the two fell in love at first sight. Guido boldly pursued and bravely showed love: "Good morning, princess! Like the key that fell from the sky, Guido opened Dora's atrium with fiery love.
Romantic rainy night red carpet, sweet love under the table, and then to the strength of riding a white horse to grab marriage, the fairy tale of the frog prince and princess, a beautiful love beyond class was born.
In the real world, the male and female protagonists Roberto Bernini and Nicoleta Braski are also a loving couple, and they also fell in love at first sight on the set. In each of Roberto Bernini's other six directorial works, Nicoleta is featured. When watching the film, I always feel that the heroine is ordinary, there is no amazing beauty, but inside and outside the play she is regarded as a real "princess" - ah, the sour smell of love (I lemon essence)!
Dora, who has no Jewish ancestry, also resolutely chooses to follow her husband and children and boards the train to the concentration camp (running to death).
In the camp, Guido risked his life to broadcast radio to report safety to his wife; he also put on a piece of music dedicated to his wife. This is probably the best way to look at love, not just the mutual companionship of the same weal and woe with you and me - compared to staying up for a long time, the real great thing about love is that it brings people hope and warmth, doesn't it?
Father's love is the most heart-wrenching part of "A Beautiful Life".
"If you score 1,000 points, you'll get the jackpot, and the prize is a real tank!" The ordinary Guido, in order to protect his son, becomes an omnipotent superman. He used lies to preserve the innocence and happiness of the child, so that the child had a childhood without shadows and fears.
He can transform into a translator, hard-headed, full of mouths to explain the "rules of the game" of not crying, not looking for his mother, and not delusional about eating desserts;
He can still energetically accompany, care for and educate his children day after day after carrying the inhumane devastation of the concentration camps. For the sake of the child, he can be a perpetual motion machine, in addition to stay alert, he is always optimistic and keeps smiling;
Well, this grimace and funny gait, a second of tears...
In fact, a toy tank is enough to make the child's heart blossom, but the father's sacrifice makes the child realize the dream of sitting on the real tank.
We often say that the father's love is like a mountain, but the impression is that the father is always not good at words, like a hard rock, extremely majestic and difficult to approach. But the father in "Beautiful Life" is not only the child's protective umbrella and backing, he is also the child's best friend and playmate. He's optimistic and humorous, and he's also good at expressing—even to the point of nagging. After understanding the cruelty of life, he is still full of energy and goodwill – in fact, he is strong and indestructible precisely because of his gentleness.
Stoicism, tolerance, optimism, humor, willingness to express, for Chinese families, "Beautiful Life" is also a tuition session about love.
In 2019, we lamented too much "I'm too southern" and got used to coexisting with anxiety, we can continue to ridicule the lack of "freedom to collapse", and we can also continue to improve the skills of "being a decent adult"... Because of "too south", we almost n times the speed of "farewell" 2019. But in the new year, maybe we should change our perspective, life is not as "south" as imagined.
As the movie says: "Every fairy tale has sadness, but also like every fairy tale, full of miracles and happiness" "Life is beautiful, no matter how unsatisfactory it is." ”
2020, smile and move forward.