Tornado's Trilogy of Time and Space: Life is a sigh, and art is an unforgettable echo.

Italian director tornado filmed Paradise Cinema, The Legend of 1900 and The Beautiful Legend of Sicily in 1989, 1998 and 2000 respectively, which are called "Time and Space Trilogy" and "Return Trilogy". The three films are highly praised for their plain narration, smooth and colorful music and unique artistic connotation.

Cinema Paradiso

After becoming a famous director, Duo Duo received a phone call from his hometown mother, telling him that the funeral of Alfredo, the former projectionist of Paradise Cinema, was coming soon, which reminded Duo Duo of his childhood and adulthood, but he had not been home for 30 years.

As a priest's assistant, he is often annoyed by many naughty children, who are disciplined by their mothers just because their father went to war. He is so obsessed with movies that he wants to learn how to show movies from Alfredo, the only cinema projectionist in town, but he is rejected. Even so, he learned to show movies without a teacher, and later became a friend and teacher. Alfredo teaches a lot, not only showing movies, but also the wisdom gained from movies. He told Toto to have dignity for love, leave town and go to a bigger world. Don't go back to the city until you die.

The cinema is the only entertainment center in the town, and it is also the place where villagers gather. They spent an indelible time here. There are countless humans in the movie. Children smoke intently on the screen, teenagers spend their time in turbulent youth, and young people flirt with each other in the twists and turns of the film. Adults escape the chase of boring time and the shadow of war by entering movies. For residents, movies are second life.

For Duoduo, movies are not only an art, but also a part of his life. In movies and in life, he accepted the reality more naively than adults, because his mother always remembered that his father could come back.

The more we stare at and think about this film, the more meaningful it becomes. The more we think about this meaning, the more we realize that it has something to do with the art of life. It tells us that life is so hard. It tells us that life is not simply the truth and fatigue presented by film art. It's about the regret and disappearance we have felt before we reach the end of our lives. The helplessness of things that have passed away, endless regrets, and unchangeable regrets. In other words, it tells us this crucial fact: life is a long sigh, and art is the echo of sigh. This sigh echoes the endless innocent joy of childhood, which makes it even more cruel that we can't face it directly.

From beginning to end, we can't seem to understand Alfredo's obsession. He told me that if he stayed in Duoduo Town for a long time, he would feel that this is the whole world, and he told him all the wisdom he gained from film art. This kind of wisdom is not really the wisdom of taking risks in the world, but the wisdom presented by the art of concentrating imagination. For him, Duoduo is a kind of hope and sustenance to get out of the small world of the town. But many years later, we found that many people returned to their hometown to attend Alfredo's funeral after becoming a great director. They are more like a tired traveler, returning home from a winter night, rather than a director who has gone through a bigger world and won film honors. He was very tired and almost silent until he saw those childhood clips and those kissing scenes, and he cried. This is family affection and the truth of human nature. We found a paradox. If Toto was an old man with a strong desire to leave this world when he was young, he didn't go home for 30 years and finally came back tired, but Alfredo got satisfaction from movies in a small town and lived a movie-like life. He didn't run away, very satisfied. Toto went out, but he was very tired when he came back. In fact, whether you leave or stay in a small town, it shows the fact that life is the art of regret.

Alfredo's death and the explosion of the cinema mean that the handicraft era of movies has passed, which means that the bond of the cinema, which used to be the center of the town-an emotional square, has dissipated, followed by the commercial square and industrial movies we saw. Watching movies is no longer a collective pleasure and echo, but a personal tour and aftertaste. This is also the most important revelation: once we regarded the film as a beautiful moment of collective memory, it gradually disappeared, and its physical body, the cinema, could not shine under the cover of industry, but became a nostalgic memory, which meant that it was a dead end.

Therefore, this is a movie about life sigh, which is meaningful. So we still remember Alfredo saying to Toto:

? The Legend of 1900

I saw this movie for the first time in high school. It was in one night, and it just penetrated into the loneliness in my bones. Loneliness is the brittle beauty of porcelain accidentally dropped on the ground. I live on land, and the infinite life in the future unfolds in front of me, but I am a little unlucky. I don't have the key to bear this infinite loneliness. Nobody understands why 1900 didn't get off the boat. When I revisited it in college, I suddenly felt that it was a story about art, and 1900 was a symbol of pure art, so he would always stick to this shore, not the other shore-land. Those who criticize 1900' s weakness will not think of it, just as there are people in this world who have lived on land since childhood because they are afraid of the sea, and there are also people who are abandoned on the ship and don't want to land at birth, not to mention that he is a pianist who can play music covering the whole world! Because of his nature and artistic purity, it is inevitable that he will not get off the boat.

Ships coming and going across the ocean, immigrants' longing for freedom in the new world, and black smoke billowing from huge chimneys are like an era, which is gentle, prosperous, shining light, dance and jazz in Sir Fitzgerald's era. This is not only a tribute to art, but also a tribute to the times, until that era disappeared, until jazz ceased to be the music that people talked about after the war, and until 1900 sank into the sea with the old ship.

I watched it again these days, and I felt that 1900 was Calvino, or something like Calvino. Because he has a huge and slender imagination, he accurately shows the music of every word and everyone. Say the first sentence "America!" To the Statue of Liberty. Music!

His best friend Max, who was also the last person to see him, recalled that he said:

All his music has no secular purpose, but as its innate talent, it naturally radiates moist light, which is a naive pleasure. His real music is not the first-class dance and dueling of the band, but the third-class music played for ordinary people, improvised, carefree, lyrical and secular. Until he met a girl on the boat, he kissed her gently while she was sleeping, and then walked away carefully. He's getting off the boat to find the girl.

Finally, I stood on the boat ladder, threw away my hat and went back to the boat. In the last meeting with Max, he told the real reason why he didn't get off the boat:

? The beautiful legend of Sicily

Under what circumstances is beauty a crime?

-It exposes the ugliness and darkness in the heart, so that people have to crowd together to carry out unprovoked slander, speculation and rumors in order to gain a sense of security.

For the residents of the small town, the sexiness and beauty of marlene dietrich is an excessive temptation, which is beyond their moral imagination. Marlene dietrich's face was tense and his eyes were blue. The body wrapped in clothes gives people a great visual impact. Her husband took part in the war, but there was no news. Her father is deaf and teaches Latin. She looks very silent. She never speaks in front of everyone, so she is interpreted and discussed. Her expression is her passionate body, and it is the label that she is affixed to her body without saying a word.

She is a beautiful widow, and she is a woman who has lost her voice.

For reinaldo, she is pure beauty and suffocating sexiness. For the first time, he saw marlene dietrich with his friends, from the melancholy face, straight breasts to sexy buttocks, and then took a deep breath, as if he could smell her sexy body fragrance. He realized that the dim and surging lust was awakening.

The lust of a teenager is a stubborn fantasy-he wants to reach the body of the object of desire and complete his satisfaction. But the beauty of this lust lies in the satisfaction of its fantasy. In this way, it has gained the power of constant turmoil and been endowed with aesthetic feeling, such as the fine waves rising from the sun shining on the sea surface and the sexy hot sweat of watermelon juice.

Unlike other teenagers and adults, Reinado's lust is not just for the satisfaction of a fantasy, although it was at first. For Renaldo, this sexy beauty hides a more mysterious and profound truth. In order to understand this truth, he began his ghostly pursuit of marlene dietrich: spying on her family life; She lay in the yard reading her husband's letter; Go to the record store to find the song that marlene dietrich is listening to; Her day and night;

He smelled an unusual smell: marlene dietrich had nowhere to go in the small town, and people were eager to spread rumors and slander;

He went to church to reach an agreement with the Virgin Mary, hoping to protect marlene dietrich. In fact, he hoped that the Virgin Mary would give him a man's strength. Since then, his gaze on lust has changed. His companions were still satisfied with the appearance of instinctive lust, and he began to think about lust and physical beauty. Regarding marlene dietrich's dangerous situation, he consciously fantasized and entered a conversion ceremony: becoming a real man and protecting the pure beauty of this body-it comes from the infinite trust in love.

The truth related to beauty is sincere appreciation without judgment.

In the narrow moral vision of the town, the sexy beauty beyond imagination must fall to the ground and become ordinary in order to be affirmed by the people. People accept marlene dietrich again because of the weight given to her by her husband's return from the battlefield, and also because she made her first sound in the vegetable market and said "good morning" to the residents for the first time. But what about the memory of suffering? It's too light, leaving only infinite regret. But for reinaldo, the existence of marlene dietrich aroused the awakening of youthful lust, and he found the truth of human nature-a profound truth, which is the only thing worth pursuing and exploring.

? Space-time trilogy

I have always thought that the "trilogy of time and space" is a reflection of different stages of life. Paradise cinema is a memory of childhood and middle age. The Legend of 1900 is the loneliness of young people who are about to start an infinite life, while The Beautiful Legend of Sicily is the qualitative change of young people's lust, but later, I watched it again. Only one sentence has been echoing in my mind: life is a long sigh, and art is its unforgettable echo.

In 1900 Legend and Paradise Cinema, there is an image of space collapse at last. The cinema of Paradise Cinema, as a collective public space memory, finally entered its interior to find memory-hidden in the structure, breath and memory of the cinema, and finally disappeared in the explosion. When the abandoned spaceship finally exploded, Max boarded the ship and found 1900. Both spaces are dilapidated dust, and every corner shines with the light of memory in the eyes of everyone in the circle-its happiness, prosperity and passion will eventually break out. I can't help but feel sad when I think about it, because none of them have tombstones. They remain in the memory of the insider, but the memory will gradually disappear, evaporate like perfume, and finally, until the last person who knows it dies.

In the trilogy, the protagonist himself is absent. Dodo lost his father, marlene dietrich lost her husband, and 1900 lost her friends. The director proposed to compensate for the missing role. Alfredo became a lot of "fathers" and a person who taught the wisdom of life. Reinado dreamed of becoming marlene dietrich's husband and acting as a protector. Max is a friend of 1900. He knows the music of 1900, and he is the greatest pianist in the ocean. This also makes us immersed in the role of the film, because it is this "lack" that makes us consciously enter the missing role as an audience. I later learned that the charm of these films lies in the conscious compensation of the audience.

In the three films, all the characters finally returned to the original point. Toto returned to the dilapidated cinema, Max returned to the abandoned boat, and marlene dietrich returned to the town. This is the story, beginning and ending, instead of falling into endless waiting nothingness like waiting for Dogo. As 1900 said:

However, we still have to make a long farewell to the story. Life is much more difficult than movies.

Endless sigh ...