Malena
Malèna
園藝三 杜佳英 4101032020
Directed and written by Giuseppe Tornatore and based on a story by Luciano Vincenzoni, Malèna portraits a story of a beautiful woman in Sicily, Italy, 1940. The technique that the director applied corresponds to the history background of the film. Neorealism came after the end of World War Two and the collapse of Benito Mussolini's government, causing the Italian film industry to lose its center. Neorealism was a sigh of cultural change and social progress in Italy. It's film presented contemporary stories and ideas. The nearly-destroyed movie industry initiated an openly-competing environment then raised the trend of realism. Based on Realism, Malèna gives interpretation to the history with the vivid characters. In Italy, 1940, Italy just stepped into World War Two, also the time fascism prevailed. Fascism is theorized by Benito Mussolini. It is a form of government where a dictator has the absolute power, people are urged by the government to be nationalist and loyal, there are no formal oppositions and there is weak democracy. Fascism usually combines the political philosophy of communalism, Syndicalism, Despotism, Ultranationalism, Militarism, anti-Anarchism, Capitalism of anti-Laissez-faire, anti-communism, anti-Liberalism. Fascism could be regard as an extreme form of Collectivism and anti-Individualism. As a result, people must be obedient and loyal in a community. Whenever there are the differences in emotion or physical might even be considered as a crime. The extraordinary beauty and sexiness of Malèna just against the Ideology of Fascism., under an era which people provoke the harmony of race and anti-Individualism. The extraordinary beauty becomes a target and turns Malèna into a victim of the age. The women in Sicily all envies her. As the hatred goes on and the prejudice rages, it just displays the spirit of Fascism to extreme.
Next, I'd like to talk about the narrator - Renato. The story is told through the
園藝三 杜佳英 4101032020
Directed and written by Giuseppe Tornatore and based on a story by Luciano Vincenzoni, Malèna portraits a story of a beautiful woman in Sicily, Italy, 1940. The technique that the director applied corresponds to the history background of the film. Neorealism came after the end of World War Two and the collapse of Benito Mussolini's government, causing the Italian film industry to lose its center. Neorealism was a sigh of cultural change and social progress in Italy. It's film presented contemporary stories and ideas. The nearly-destroyed movie industry initiated an openly-competing environment then raised the trend of realism. Based on Realism, Malèna gives interpretation to the history with the vivid characters. In Italy, 1940, Italy just stepped into World War Two, also the time fascism prevailed. Fascism is theorized by Benito Mussolini. It is a form of government where a dictator has the absolute power, people are urged by the government to be nationalist and loyal, there are no formal oppositions and there is weak democracy. Fascism usually combines the political philosophy of communalism, Syndicalism, Despotism, Ultranationalism, Militarism, anti-Anarchism, Capitalism of anti-Laissez-faire, anti-communism, anti-Liberalism. Fascism could be regard as an extreme form of Collectivism and anti-Individualism. As a result, people must be obedient and loyal in a community. Whenever there are the differences in emotion or physical might even be considered as a crime. The extraordinary beauty and sexiness of Malèna just against the Ideology of Fascism., under an era which people provoke the harmony of race and anti-Individualism. The extraordinary beauty becomes a target and turns Malèna into a victim of the age. The women in Sicily all envies her. As the hatred goes on and the prejudice rages, it just displays the spirit of Fascism to extreme.
Next, I'd like to talk about the narrator - Renato. The story is told through the