柔之胜刚,欲速不达, 中国古人的智慧,是此片的主线。 佐珍隐喻这个世界的问题, 马迪奥和尼古拉尝试以自以为正确的方式去解决, 两人在车站的诀别, 意味着两种人生的展开。 答案在最终, 时间为友,享受过程,原则性不强的尼古拉找到了正确答案。 尼古拉让佐珍每日浇水的片段,令人动容, 背后是面对冷酷现实不急不躁,从容冷静的心态, 这是导演认为走向灿烂人生应有的心态。
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尼古拉和妻子朱莉安是辅线, 不带隐喻的方式阐述两人改变世界的方式, 与主线不同的是, 此辅线重在阐述人生的认知方式, 学生时期与朱莉安一起沉溺于学潮的尼古拉, 从错误的认知中走出来, 尼古拉嘲讽着带女儿从乌烟瘴气的左派会议中走过的场景, 隐喻着他与之前认知的决裂, 走向科学理性的怀抱, 这是导演认为人生应有的理性认知。
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片中提倡的友善与包容也是对人生认知的极重要的一点, 认为爱是链接灿烂人生重要因素。 两人的母亲每周坚持探望马里奥瘫痪的好友, 是导演关于爱的的隐喻。 爱的重要性在于与残缺的链接,对坏的包容,让社会不至于断裂。 然而,善恶分明,原则性过强的马里奥, 因此错失了爱的链接, 马里奥跳楼前, 与女朋友未能接通的电话, 隐喻着爱的最终断裂。 -----------------------------------
片中一些小的片段也展现出导演对人生的看法, 尼古拉的朋友从失业困境中艰难走出, 暗示了我们面对挫折应有的态度。 尼古拉的另一位朋友,后来的妹夫, 面对暗杀威胁选择留在国内的态度, 暗示了我们面对困难恐惧是应有的坚强和执着。
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尼古拉以看似慢,看似无原则、 但充满理性科学、充满爱的方式, 好似龟兔赛跑,改变了世界很多很多, 改变了心理学认知, 改变了法律, 治愈了佐珍, 用爱从新与朱莉安建立链接,
但,这就是灿烂人生的吗? 终极的疑问在于, 尼古拉永远无法改变马里奥, 或许,复杂与多样才是人生真正的灿烂之处吧。
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第一次看长达6小时的电影, 娓娓道来, 感悟颇多, 这部电影展现了 有着千年传承的民族, 理应有的文化深度。
It was a six hours long Italian movie. It was shown in a small theatre in SF’s Richmond district, very close to Pacific Ocean. I knew nothing about the movie, besides its length, before went in the theatre. I went because Gui thought it was worthy. I always trust Gui’s taste in movies. We were well-prepared, carried a small shopping bag full of various healthy soft drinks: chocolate soy milk, mango juice, and water, cookies, and chocolate, plus a small pillow for Gui’s back. It felt like a school field trip. Since the movie was shown in two parts with half an hour intermission in between. We only bought tickets to see the first half first. Left our option open in case we wanted to give up on the 2nd half. We ended up watching the movie in full. Before the second half started, we walked up and down the quiet street bathed in brilliant afternoon sunshine. The ocean is visible not far off, at the end of the street. Accidentally discovered a lovely coffee shop, too. (The coffee shop was named ‘Simple Pleasure Cafe’, with loads of old sofa in all shapes and sizes, plus a piano!) I liked the movie. Couldn’t get my mind clear of the story well into the evening. A few words from the ever so eloquent Anthony Lane: "This is how people find love in “The Best of Youth.” They meet in a small kitchen, where one of them calls the other a klutz for not being able to work the coffee machine. They talk about college, and exchange a look. That’s it. And this is how people make out: they fumble warmly in a car, beside a phone booth, with no music surging to their aid; unless you count the Roman rain outside, with its soft percussive beat. "All of which confirms that we are in the midst of verifiable human conduct. “The Best of Youth” runs, though never dawdles, for an easy six hours, with barely a false note. Directed by Marco Tullio Giordana, it was commissioned by Italian television; here it has already shown at Film Forum, in two three-hour chunks, and will play at Cinema Village before heading elsewhere across the country. There is absolutely no reason not to sacrifice a couple of your evenings for the sake of the Caratis, the lightly bound clan at the heart of Giordana’s epic; not, I should add, because they will offer you a pulsing escape from your own family life but precisely because the rhythm of their pleasures and scarrings will, over time, come to seem like a consoling echo of your own. When a movie starts, as this one does, with a dad interrupting his son’s homework and asking if he can help move a TV set, you know you are on home ground. " Warning, if you plan to watch the movie. Stop reading now. Don’t want to spoil your experiences. The story confirmed my conclusion about suicides once again, which was that suicide was never a premeditate decision. It was triggered by a spur of the moment weakness, loneliness. Maybe it was piled up by all kinds of depression and bottled up feelings left unexpressed. But that moment was never pre-determined. So there were many “what-ifs”. And all the “whatifs” might have would have prevented the tragedy. If someone they love would call at that moment, if someone they cared about happened to be with them, happened to show up, even if some stranger suddenly interfered at that moment, all would have turned out okay. That led to what the character in the movie, Nicola, concluded for himself, that he shouldn’t have left people he love alone. He always thought “people has the right to live however they pleased.” But sometimes the ones we love are not as strong as we perceived. They needed our voice of reason to nag them. They needed reassurance of love and the feeling that they were needed. The modern world, especially the western modern world’s politeness, and the respect for privacy sometimes led to deadly consequences. Because we are all so alone. We needed to know we are loved and we are needed. Constantly. That’s why I think gun is such an evil weapon. It helped that moment of weakness plunge into the abyss, with no return, no second chance. It was so final, so quick and so deadly. A couple of more interesting points about the movie: # My friend's Gui's comment: I kept thinking about the movie, too. Of Matteo’s death. Then a “side thought” came to me: if the actor wasn’t so beautiful, would I care as much? I doubt I would (I imagined if the charactor was played by… say, Matt Damon). Matteo was intelligent, sensitive, and well-meaning, but behaved quite a bit like a jerk. His beauty seems to be the thing that completes the package and makes it compelling. But if this movie was a novel — as many critics compared it to — it would be a different matter. Visual elements are always so simple and powerful. My Reply: I was actually thinking that the major mis-calculation on all Matteo’s friends and family made was the “intelligent” part. How he always got A’s. Everyone assumed that because he was highly intelligent so he must know what was best for himself. But Intelligence is overrated, not just in the case of Enron. Beauty certain helped. It, like you pointed out, perfected him even more. Turned him into a god, who could do no wrong. But gods do all kinds of stupid things, don’t they? They could get away with their deeds because they are immortal. - Anthony Lane’s Review from the New Yorker, Issue of 2005-04-25IN TRANSLATION : http://www.newyorker.com/printables/critics/050425crci_cinema
连日来忙着观看早晚的美国网球赛,电影看得少了。下载了一部意大利2003年拍摄的电影《灿烂人生》,发现它竟然长达6个小时!一天看一点,拖了近一周才看完了它。
是部好电影! 在豆瓣上评分达到9.4,有54,883人评价;IMDB评分也高达8.5,21,341人次投票。两个网站的TOP250 排名中都没有算上它,估计是因为其超长的形态。当年它参加了戛纳电影节的“一种关注”栏目,是分为上、下两部放映,每部3小时,后获该项目大奖;随后在影院公映,但主要还是在电视上以4集的mini系列剧形式公映,每集1.5小时。
影评人“亵渎电影”的评语概括了影片内容:“6个小时,1个家庭,44年的时间跨度,一晚上看完一群人的一生,太完美了!★★★★★”(2012-10-27)
我对对此片感兴趣,是因为它写的是和我同龄一代人的人生,即上世纪40、50年代出生的一代。影片从上世纪60年代写到本世纪初,主角们开始时还都是些未毕业的大学生,相似于我们国家“文革”前的“老三届”(它一般指当时尚未毕业的66、67、68届初、高中学生,其实也应该包括当时还没完成学业的各届在校大学生,他们也一样地卷入了失学、革命、下乡的历史浪潮之中)。电影中展现了60-70年代席卷世界、欧洲的“红色风暴”。以马特奥和尼古拉两兄弟为首的一家人,在漫长的40年中,经历了意大利战后最混乱的时期,大洪水,红色学潮,工人暴动,足球世界杯小组被淘汰到夺冠,黑手党横行,菲亚特工厂大裁员,红色旅恐怖组织的兴起,等等历史事件,兄弟姐妹、父母、爱人、孩子的命运都被纠缠了进去。编导以青春时期对理想、革命、爱情的选择为主题,运用“性格决定命运”的法则,展现了一幅耐人回味与共鸣的社会人生画卷。
影片拍摄于本世纪初,还是使用的胶片拍摄(查IMDB上,底片用的是Super16mm,拷贝用的35mm胶片),制作精良;遵循了电视电影“小屏幕”的要求,特写、近景多,人物肖像拍得特别成功。当然,几个意大利演员的出色外部资质及表演也极为添彩。
我之所以没有打满分,是感觉用了如此巨大的篇幅,编导的立意还是狭小了一些,对涉及到的社会思想和政治问题的涉入过于浅薄,影响了作品的“历史史诗”分量。
不过,我还是向没看过的人推荐该片;特别是我们这些出生于40、50年代的人们应该去观看它。在我们已经进入耄耋之年时去回忆往事,你会发现它“并不如烟”,而是厚重又丰富,非常值得去回首与反思!
OMG!本来只是为了练习意大利语听力,但是从BGM,美术设计,情节节奏,人物呈现,还有借由一个家庭还魂的历史那个水乳交融。那些我曾经去过的城市,读过的故事都有了新的面孔……下次去意大利会有完全不同的感受吧。能handle这种超长片而不叫观众走神不让叙事或人物跳针的,都是大才啊~~~
动荡年代年轻人的青春理想和生活。是很难得的,每个人物都有着鲜明的立场和意识形态色彩却依然异常饱满的故事。明明不可解的矛盾最后被友情和亲情的温情脉脉遮盖,可我还是接受温情牌。故事比立场有力,人物比态度有力,忘不了Matteo那在漫天烟火背景下的纵身一跃。
平民史诗也可以如此回肠荡气。366分钟里浓缩了40年的时光流转,用一个家庭的悲欢离合徐徐描绘意大利战后人事变迁。对积重难返的社会,导演显然是如第一男主一样的温和改良派,并把人情置于理念之上,这点相信也是意大利人的民族性。剧情演进的前后呼应,结尾的轮回与传承,精妙绝伦。
六个小时真有阅尽人生之感,虽然这种人生仍不免理想化,过于美好总叫我恐惧;自由的代价是死亡,可是为了追求生命中最微小的幸福和最飘渺的美,即使死亡也不足惜;要有多大勇气重温历史重温回忆;苍老的爱情多么美丽,为了等到那一刻,漫漫长夜,我愿意等。
"「眼前一切都很美丽」,还有三个感叹号,你现在仍然认同吗?" "我不认同那三个感叹号.."
虽然有点长,但绝对是每一个人值得一看的好电影。从一个家庭(具体两兄弟的家庭)的成长,大到囊括意大利的历史变迁,小到每一个个人的领悟,转折,和生老病死。看得我泪流满面,而且极度想家,也想拥有一个家庭。Everything that exists is beautiful!!!也许青春以后就不再相信感叹号了,但是世界依然美好。
他让激进的朱莉娅弹得一手好钢琴,让暴躁的马蒂奥成为一个书迷,让美瑞娜在失去马蒂奥之后得到儿子,让尼古拉在女儿离开后重新得到爱情。他端详、雕刻、安抚每一个辗转反侧的灵魂,让你觉得世界可以变得更好,正在变得更好,还会变得更好。
三星到四星到五星躁动中的平静最后胜出
人生如梦,跌宕起伏。生老病死,几度哽咽。黯然销魂,唯别而已。灿烂人生,生生长流。
你有没有试过,看完一遍,立马跳到影片前10分钟看几分钟,恍如隔世。★★★★★
对于我这种极其没有耐心的人来说这就是一部罪大恶极的烂片=。 =
我电影名单里永远的第一名。影片里充满了哭泣,但不是为赚取你的泪水。影片里充满了悲伤,但不是为赚取你的悲伤。影片里充满了坚强,但不是为说教你坚强。你是马迪奥,你也是尼古拉。
6个小时,1个家庭,44年的世界跨度,一晚上看完一群人的一生,太完美了!★★★★★
我们应该以怎样的方式来爱这个世界?是马提奥那样宁为玉碎,朱莉叶那样飞蛾扑火,还是像尼古拉那样柔情似水?追寻自由之路究竟通向何方?到底怎样才能用爱换取爱?这些最重要的问题,我们从来也得不到回答,多少人的一生就这样枉惘而过。数度落泪,想给六星。
6个小时,酣畅淋漓,波澜壮阔,又见微知著,充满人性光辉(完美承接了贝托鲁奇的<一九零零>);我坚信每个人都会从这部人文史诗电影里看到自己灵魂的投影,去寻找生活的真相、生存的意义与生命的本质!——真的无比灿烂,无比辉煌!!// 追加:近十年来已反复重看了五六遍,这是在绝望中让我重拾信仰的圣经!
愿每一个骨子里住着马迪奥的人,都像尼古拉一样温柔的活着。
昨晚,独自三瓶燕京啤酒之后,是一部六个小时的电影,意大利的《灿烂人生》。第二遍看它,感触愈深。电影是关于两兄弟和身边一些人的事,四张碟,六个小时,故事从1966年进行到2002年,应该可以说算是意大利的近代史了。关于历史两字,实在不怎么喜欢,以前接触的无非是课本上堂而皇之的一些玩意儿:某个年月某个人某件事,缺乏细节的幽默与惊喜,看了如同嚼蜡,无趣之至。关于细节的印象,建立在一次影视赏析课,那是看了《天使艾米莉》之后,老师布置了一个当堂的作业:每人写十个细节。实在分不清像艾米莉迷恋把
6个多小时,长得不像话,让人想写诗,不写白不写:美国往事意难平,步履不停爱且行。美好何需添感叹,灿烂寂灭总关情。体制自由各孤影,他朝黄梁幡然醒。一生几届世界杯,人间正道是悲悯。
从耐心上来讲。。我是不推荐的
我愿肝脑涂地地深情推荐这部电影。所谓“人生中不能错过的六个小时”,我看,可远不止六个小时,因为,看完一遍还会想看第二第三第四遍。我记忆中的意大利,我所不知道的意大利,真实温暖或炽烈灿烂的感情。漫溢于所有的画面。