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Chapter 586 If the years are not turbulent, the rest of your life will not be sad or happy ([-]-character chapter)

Time flies by, just like the line in the movie: "Time flows like running water!"

Thirty years later, Duoduo, who was already a famous director, received a call of Alfredo's death, and he returned to his hometown with gray hair.

The son came back, and the camera looked down from the window on the second floor. The son who had turned gray from a teenager appeared at the door. She was not as excited or sad as she imagined, and she was as calm as welcoming her son who came home from get off work every day.

But is she really that calm?
Actually no, in the camera, she forgot to put down the woolen yarn in her bosom, and when she pulled the yarn, first the needle fell to the ground with a "jingle", and then the woolen yarn was torn apart on the sweater that was about to be knitted on the chair. After the yarn finally stopped, my mother called "Duodo" softly from downstairs.

In 30 years, she has changed from a young woman to a rickety old man. Her longing and waiting have spread into white hair that grows wildly, dripping from the twisted wrinkles, and the wool from her hands falls out in a tangle.The woolen yarn was pulled and stretched round and round, which released the mother's thirty-year longing.

Time flows in the yarn, and the pulled yarn pulls out the past and memories.

She has been cleaning Duoduo's room for ten years, everything is the same as when he left, even the film and projector that recorded Elena are still there.

Loneliness has become the label of this woman's life, but she is safe in it, living peacefully and firmly.

Loneliness is also deeply imprinted in every corner of "Paradise Cinema".

In the corner of the pulled quilt, in the sound of tinkling wind chimes, in the gray hair, in the wrinkles like ravines, in the ruined movie theater, in the old yellowed film
Thirty years of long years have been filled with lonely faces.

She just said to Duoduo: "Your sister and the others are doing well, and their children have grown up. I often receive letters from her, saying that the house is great and renovated. Thank you for everything!"

"I have a surprise for you, come!" The wrinkled mother came to a room with the same gray-haired son.

She also asked him: "Are you tired? You can take a break before the funeral!"

Duoduo said, "No, Mom, I want to take a flight in an hour!"

Mom suddenly said unhappy: "I've been away for thirty years, I can't just leave!"

Entering the surprise room her mother gave her, Duoduo was surprised to find that the room was almost the same as when he left, and it was filled with everything he had ever had.

She told Duoduo that every time she called him, a different woman answered.She understands that if her son didn't meet the person he loves most, then his heart belongs to him;
She told Duoduo that she only loved one man in her life, and that was Duoduo's father, so she could understand Duoduo's mood;

She told Duoduo that before he served in the military, when he was in love with Elena, every night, she would keep the door open, lie on the bed and listen to the movement outside the house; lock the door;
She told Duoduo that after he became a projectionist in the town, she couldn't fall asleep every night, and she always put a key in the lockhole, she was afraid that she would fall asleep suddenly, and she was afraid that her son would not be able to enter the house.

Duoduo silently listened to his mother's chatter. He never knew that his mother had always cared about him so much.

But he didn't know, in thirty years, which mother would not care about her child?

Duoduo carried the coffin for Alfredo, he never saw him again when Alfredo was alive!

But I think Alfredo should have heard a lot of people talking about Duoduo, so he can rest in peace.

On the street and outside the cafe, Duoduo was surprised to see a young girl who looks exactly like Alina, she is Elena's daughter.

He can't forget it all the time, maybe this is the first love, who can easily forget the once hot and most unforgettable first love?
It's a pity that I missed a date, and once I miss it, it will be 30 years.

Ironically, when Alfredo followed the girl who looked exactly like Elena to find Elena, he saw that his former goddess, lover, was married to that 5×5. A man with a birthmark who can get hooked up with a prostitute on film.

The impermanence of life is vividly displayed at this moment.

The classmate who was ridiculed by everyone and couldn't even recite the multiplication table would become the last one to embrace the beauty.

But this is life!You never know what will happen!
Thirty years, a moment of youth at the flick of a finger.

The former lover is also old and married, but Duoduo still found a phone number and called her. He wanted to see her, but he just wanted to give himself an answer!

At night, by the seaside, Elena hesitated for a long time, and finally decided to go to the appointment. She found Duoduo who was thinking, and she still remembered his love to sit by the seaside, and she still shed tears for their lost love.Duoduo held Elena's face in his hands and stared at her deeply: "You are still so beautiful."

At that moment, he and Elena burst into tears.

The two finally solved the previous mystery.

It's Alfredo's obstruction!
He lied to Elena that Duo Duo had given up on this relationship!

Duoduo rushed to Paradise Cinema like crazy, in the screening room. In the dust and mess, among the piles of notes, he found the one left by Elena on a film reel note letter on the back.In the note, Elena told Duoduo that she would only love him forever, and vowed never to change her mind. Remember to write to me with the address of my friend, I will always love you!goodbye!Your Elena!

It's just a pity that he didn't see this letter until thirty years later!

Everything has already been changed.

Elena has forgiven Alfredo, so what about Dodo?
Elena said that she had seen from his silence that Dodo had forgiven Alfredo!
In fact, if Duoduo stays in Sicily, it is unknown whether he can go to the end with Elena.

But certainly not a great director.

Life is like this, there are gains, losses, successes, and regrets.

Everything you get must be exchanged for something you once had.

Perhaps being an ordinary projectionist on a small island and having three or five children with Elena would lead to a happier life.

But Duoduo is always pursuing unrealistic things, and unrealistic things are often not allowed, like the films of those love scenes, like the love affair with the banker's daughter... Alfredo took away cruelly. Teenager's dreams: They are yours, but they stay with me, you can't take them away.

The audience in the theater were all involved, but they also had no answer.

Because everyone doesn't know whether they will have the opportunity to meet the only woman who is branded in their hearts when they are gray-haired.

This kind of choice is difficult: choose to reject fantasy and love, life will be easier, and it will be easier to achieve fame and fame, but some regrets are lifelong.If you choose love and dreams, the road is doomed to be bumpy, and it is inevitable to get hurt again.

Thirty years have passed in the movie, but only a few minutes. In life, every day of the thirty years has to be lived by the body. There is no heaven here.

But where will you be thirty years from now?What will it look like?Who will be by your side?Who will kiss your face?Whose name did you call in your dream?Will someone touch the horns of your hair?Who is listening to your voice?Who is watching your back?
Thirty years later, if we meet again, will you still recognize me?Will your eyes shine for a moment?Would you say "you're still so beautiful"?

What makes us long for is always heaven, what makes our heart break is always time.

Dodo walks into the simple hut of the dead Alfredo: stills from his movies hang on the walls, and his photos are on the table
Alfredo's wife told Dodo that Alfredo still missed him until his death.

His wife gave Duoduo a box of film.She said it was Alfredo who asked her to give it to him on his deathbed.She didn't know what was recorded on the film.

Dodo called Elena again, and he hoped she would go to Rome with him.

Elena rejected him, and she told Duoduo: "Everything is over. The tight embrace last night was just a beautiful dream. I am satisfied with such a beautiful dream."

She told Duoduo: "I have been paying attention to your achievements, I watch every movie you make, and I listen to all the news about you! But everything is in the past, and nothing can come back. There is no future, only the past , it’s like a dream we didn’t realize when we were kids, isn’t it?”

In fact, in the original movie plot, there was a passionate (harmonious) love scene between Alfredo and Elena, but Li Yi decisively deleted it.

Maybe the Italians think that they can do whatever they want after they get married, but this really ruins the beauty of the whole movie, and it also makes the reunion [-] years later bloody.At least Li Yi felt that that scene was a blasphemy against the pure first love thirty years ago!Therefore, the reunion between Duoduo and Elena was just a tight hug, nothing like that happened!
After all, as Elena said, everything has passed, just like a childhood dream that did not come true!
If you missed it, then miss it!

When Duoduo was young, he had unrealistic fantasies, and thought that love was everything, but life is more than love!
He is a famous director, and there is no shortage of applause and flowers along the way, even women.But are these what Duoduo really wants?He realized his dream, but he couldn't arouse his love in his heart, and he didn't have the throbbing feeling when he met Elena. The reunion last night was just a fantasy. farther and farther.

After experiencing a circle of the outside world, it is a complete reincarnation to return to the starting point.Life is not like this, if you have never gone out to see, have not achieved some achievements, at least for yourself, it is not perfect.

Duoduo's Paradise Cinema is both the starting point and the end point of his dream.

Once again the square was full of people.

Paradise Cinema collapsed amidst the explosion.

When the movie theater collapsed, the loud applause filled the smoky town, accompanied by the smiling faces of the young people, and the sighs and tears of the old people.

Because Paradise Cinema belongs to the nostalgic old people, but not to the young people of the new era!
It's not just the Paradise Cinema that collapsed, but also the past that can't go back!

The collapse of this movie theater that once brought laughter to countless people also means the end of an era!

People at that time were very poor, but also very happy.There is no entertainment city full of feasting and feasting, and there is no midnight show where singing and dancing are peaceful. They only have one belief: movies.They laugh with it, cry with it, completely immersed in this paradise, but they don't know, in fact, their life is a movie.Maybe not exciting enough, maybe not romantic enough, but real and within reach.For the townspeople, this is heaven, but for Alfredo, it is just a machine, and he himself is a gear, spinning continuously, until one day, he follows The old machines broke down together.But for Duoduo, this is the place he longs for, with Alfredo's airy magic, the priest's needless harshness, and people's joy and sorrow, like an alternative world.

But all of this ended with the collapse of Paradise Cinema!

The era of Paradise Cinemas is over!
Corresponding to Duoduo's never looking back, the lunatic on the square represents another extreme:
Trapped in the small world of the square all his life, he shouted a line every time he appeared:
The square is mine.The square is mine.The square is mine.

Once everyone saw this lunatic say this sentence, they would burst into laughter.

But now, hearing this sentence again, everyone can't laugh!
Yes, the square is mine, maybe only in the simple world of madmen, it will be like a day for thirty years, and for others, children will grow up, young people will grow old, old people will die, three Ten years have already changed the world.

Thirty years is enough to change a lot.

Duoduo left, and left this small town that haunted his dreams, because it no longer belonged to him when he left thirty years ago!
Duoduo, who returned to Rome, immediately fell into a busy situation.

His secretary told him that the news of the film's award and congratulatory messages piled up like a mountain, but Duoduo was completely indifferent.

Maybe he would have been ecstatic because of this, but now, he couldn't show even a happy smile.

Because of all of this, he exchanged many, many other important things, and getting it also meant that he lost a lot!

In fact, in essence, he is still the boy on that small island.Returning to the old place, reuniting with the old lover, the past is irreversible, but my dear, you are still my first and last love.

This is why, he still calls Elena, hoping that she can go to Rome with him, and this is why, after Elena refuses, after saying that everything is over, he will say, no, I Don't think so!
In fact, Alfredo also knew, so he left this roll of film for Duoduo!
At the end of the movie, Duo Duo sat alone in the movie theater, watching the film left by Alfredo, where all the kissing scenes that he had asked for were cut by the priest, Duo Duo gradually laughed, Laughing and crying, this is the Paradise Cinema that Alfredo left him.

Those kisses and hugs one after another kept switching on the screen, those childhood secrets, the missing piece, Alfredo came to help him complete it, that was the first thing he asked him for, that It was his secret, Alfredo remembered, he destroyed his first love, but at this moment, he returned the first love.

Maybe everyone has his own movie theater in his heart, where there are some movies and some people.It doesn't matter whether there is that house or not. The movie theater is demolished, and Duoduo can still cry and smile, because it has lived forever in his mind.The movie theater, which has no space, still keeps all the best things for him, in my heart.

Those pieces of film that were cut out are like pieces of love that were forced to miss by life. You may never be able to connect them correctly to the original film, but you can stitch these pieces together to form a film. Movies move people, because this is life.

The movie is over!
But the entire auditorium was silent.

"Paradise Cinema" is indeed full of a taste of reading the vicissitudes of life and recalling the past.The tone of the movie is quite like a documentary, recording Xiao Duoduo's family, love, friendship and his own ideals in the process of growing up.

This is not a movie that can be summed up in one sentence.

Different people have different opinions on this movie.

The movie uses a slow rhythm to tell the story of the child named Duoduo, about movies, about friendship, about love, about growth, and about dreams.

There is no excessive sensationalism, and there is no big scene.

In fact, this is an extremely special one among Li Yi's films, because as the most provocative tear-jerker director in China, he is very, very restrained this time.

Domestic movie fans, media people, and film critics all believed that if Li Yi wanted to, he could be more sensational, but he didn't.

But it is precisely because of this that this movie looks endless.

I don't know how long it took, everyone in the theater suddenly stood up, and there was thunderous applause!

Each of them has a happy expression on their face!
The older audience had tears in their eyes, because they saw themselves in this movie.

"Paradise Cinema" made many people feel the beauty of the most traditional movie at such a moment!
Emotional resonance, this should be the biggest element besides the narrative of the movie!
Maybe everyone is not too much, but everyone is too much.

Everyone has their own Paradise Cinema, but maybe everyone's Paradise Cinema is different.

But the last scene will be deeply remembered by countless people, and maybe this will become one of the most classic scenes in this movie.

At this moment, amidst the applause, many people couldn't help but think of what director Bertoll Manning said before, this movie is a love letter to movies!
(End of this chapter)