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Chapter 589 Life is Much Harder than Movies
In fact, there are not a few films in the three major European film festivals in China, and even Oscar nominations.

However, there is rarely an award-winning movie that can make fans look forward to it so much.

For example, the other three Chinese films that were also shortlisted for the Venice Film Festival, but the results were rarely talked about.

Nothing else, just like movie fans said, they actually don't have a clear distinction between literary films and commercial films.

It's not that I don't necessarily like literary movies, but I definitely like commercial movies.

But Li Yi's movies are different. Is "The Truman Show" a literary movie?

Is "The Story of Hachiko the Faithful Dog" a literary movie?

The same is a literary film, but as the fans said, Li Yi's literary film is also different from other literary films.

He rarely adds anything difficult to understand in his films.

In fact, when the audience watches a movie, it is very simple, you don't want to make some mystical things, just tell the story well.

But often, many directors of literary and artistic films do not know whether they want to highlight their own uniqueness or artistic talents in the literary and artistic films they shoot. They always like to add some things that make people watch in the air.

Instead, let the audience watch the movie, and they don't understand what the movie is about at all?
So even Li Yi said "Paradise Cinema", this movie has a slow pace and is relatively niche, but everyone is still looking forward to it.

In fact, there are quite a few domestic film critics who go to the Venice Film Festival, but there are not many film critics who can really see the movie "Paradise Cinema" for the first time.

On the one hand, it is because, as the opening film, there are not many people who can actually enter the theater to see the opening film.

The Venice Film Festival is in Italy, not in China. Maybe these film critics in China can also get a sneak peek because of their identities, but here, there are countless media and filmmakers from all over the world, as well as movie fans from all over the world. .

However, the audience that can be accommodated in the screening hall of the opening film of the Venice Film Festival is very limited.

Therefore, this is also the reason why it has been a long time since domestic film critics sent film reviews back to China.

Another one is that this movie is indeed too hot, so the media all praise this movie, and its influence on the fans of the Venice Film Festival is still very large. These Venice Film Festival’s cooperative media are actually equivalent to saying that Venice The promotional mouthpiece of the film festival.

What's more, there are many filmmakers and stars who strongly recommend it, so it's hard to get a ticket for six extra shows, it's not a lie.

This also led to the embarrassing discovery of many film critics that they could not buy tickets at all!
At the same time, film critics write film reviews, which is different from the short reviews of ordinary movie fans. It also takes time for them to write a long review of a movie.

Many even need to read several times to understand how to write.

Especially for this kind of popular movie that is likely to win awards, film critics also need to think twice.

Soon, however, many film critics who went to the Venice Film Festival sent back comments about "Paradise Cinema".

Chen Jingning, Li Yi's die-hard fan and well-known online film critic, sent back a film review of "Paradise Cinema" on his personal Weibo!

"About dreams and love, movies and times, "Cinema Paradise" uses scattered and trivial memory fragments to finally dissolve into an unstoppable emotional torrent, which brings us a shock of the soul.

"Paradise Cinema" is not only about missed love and friendship, but also a chronicle describing the movie itself.

Actor Duoduo: The heart of a child, he has been associated with movies since he was a child, and this has been with him all his life.

The monotonous and peaceful town of Sicily, Italy, where he lives, will also have moments of joy and joy together.

In the old movie theater, old people, young people, and children sat full, all staring wide-eyed.

When someone falls asleep, naughty children will play tricks on him, put worms into the mouth of the sleeping person, and the teased person will wake up and chase after him.

Although this is an Italian movie, it does not prevent each of us from recalling our childhood memories of movies.

Remember the first movie we saw?Remember that movie we saw at the open-air cinema?

Have we ever repeated the classic lines in those movies, sentence by sentence, and were moved by each sentence at the same time?

People were in tears, and a handkerchief was passed around wiping their eyes.

Duoduo is a kid who loves movies. The movie uses a lot of pen and ink to describe his love for movies. He secretly took the cut films home, stored them in an iron box, and put them together with his father's photos.

Just after the war, everything is waiting to be done, and the film industry has risen. Under this historical background, Duoduo lives, and there is a basis for loving movies.

Stars filled his eyes looking at the curtain, and there was a slight vibration in the air, a laugh from inside him, or a few tears that slid down and he didn't wipe them away right away.

At that time, Duoduo was still very young.He was so small that he didn't know where his father went and when he would come back, and he was so small that he didn't know what the tears from his mother meant.

His little love cannot be understood by his mother.

Mom doesn't understand why Duoduo lost money to buy milk just to watch a movie;
Mom doesn't understand why he is so obsessed with those dark film that almost burned the house;

Mom didn't understand why he, who was usually well-behaved, was not very obedient, and still sneaked into the movie theater.

He couldn't forget the lion's head projecting a powerful beam of light, and he couldn't forget the black film "stored" with the old man Alfredo.

Love is an attractive thing. His love for movies made him and the withdrawn projectionist Alfredo become close friends like father and son, and he met the love of his life Elena in the theater.

After the theater caught fire, he also took over the job of the projectionist, and later became a famous director because of his love.

It can be said that Duoduo has an inseparable relationship with movies all his life.

Even after returning after 30 years, receiving the remains of "old friend" Alfredo is a roll of film.

At the moment when the picture flashed, he laughed out loud with red eyes, and with a smile, tears welled up.

Those lonely silent films, segment by segment, are all shredded films that Alfredo cut according to the church's regulations.

The long kiss in the picture, after 30 years, is like brewed wine, which still fascinates Duoduo, but chokes him to tears.

That old man Alfredo is a teacher, friend and father to Dodo, his love for Dodo is sincere and true!

He has a withdrawn personality and is a grumpy old man who is not easy to get along with.In the movie theater called "Paradise Cinema", Alfredo, the only projectionist, witnessed the joys, sorrows, joys and life changes of the residents of the small town.

Films back then had to be censored by the local priest, and all the kissing scenes were cut, so he always had scraps of film that fascinated Dodo.

Duoduo is obsessed with these films, it has nothing to do with the kiss scene, and it has nothing to do with sex, it's just pure love.

He gradually fell in love with this skinny, stubborn, chubby little boy as sweet as a milk candy.

He took Duoduo into the screening room, allowing Duoduo to enter the dream happy place.

In such a lonely childhood, he was the one who held his hand, it was he who helped him escape from his mother's beating, it was he who cut out small pieces of black film for him, and it was he who gave him the mysterious and huge movie projector. Put it in his palm.

He told Duoduo that you must love your work so that you can do it well.

He also loves to show movies like this. Although he always complains, he still works hard and enjoys it.

When the machine caught fire, everyone ran out of the theater, and he was the only one who kept putting out the fire. His instinctive rescue was saving the cause he loved all his life.In this fire, he lost his eyes and job, but got another continuation of life—Xiao Duoduo carried all the rest of his life.

He stayed in the screening room with Duoduo and spent endless hours.However, Alfredo sees through the traces of the years, his mind is as clear as a mirror, and he has insight into everything.

He doesn't want young people to continue his path. He thinks that Duoduo should have a wider sky. Under his "trick" and persuasion, Duoduo left his hometown and went to Rome to realize his dream.

He was afraid that Duoduo would give up halfway, so he ordered him not to look back and miss him, his voice was decisive and deep.

Dodo jumped on the train, and when he drove away, he couldn't see Alfredo's face, only his slightly bent back.

Maybe the old man knew long ago that after so many years, he didn't see each other again. He didn't want to turn around and let the sadness break through and become Duoduo's last tie, so he left without looking back.

Only Duoduo's sad eyes looking back from the train window remained.

With Duoduo's departure, the remaining half of his life was empty. He stayed at home alone, rarely went out, and kept nagging Duoduo even before he died.

He has lived such a lonely life for thirty years, and he knows it. Thirty years ago, Duo Duo was pushed out, and at the same time, he pushed himself into boundless loneliness.

How lucky do you have to be in your life to meet such a guide?

Alfredo thinks that Duoduo must travel, see a world he has never seen, and love more good girls. He needs Duoduo to fulfill his dream that he will never be able to realize again.

So he did not hesitate to separate Duoduo and Elena with lies.

What makes us long for is always heaven, what makes our heart break is always time.Let us also think of some past events. Sometimes people give up something for their dreams. Today, we don’t know what is right and what is wrong, but a choice is a choice. There are regrets for sure, but ideals will not let us down.

Just like Duoduo who has achieved success and fame, if he had stayed in the small town, he might have lived a happy life, but compared to his current achievements, that "little Duoduo" is too insignificant.

I think Duoduo will be very grateful for what Alfredo did, because when he saw the picture that he had been thinking about before, Alfredo put it together again as the last gift, he laughed and shed tears.

Time will beautify all cruel things, and put a hazy veil on pain.

Life is much more difficult than a movie. There are always losses and gains. The only thing we can do is keep moving forward. Only people and hearts that belong to us are the places we should let go. The turbulent years are like this, and the rest of our lives will be less joys and sorrows. "

(End of this chapter)