However, when you finish watching this movie, you should be shocked and touched by the heart, and also marvel at the director's art of filming as well as the actors' superb acting skills, especially the female lead.
Every time you see her in this movie, still marvel at her beauty, the whole play she does not have many lines, but this is also the most test of acting, her knitted brows, every move, just like the name of the movie, it is a beautiful legend, her tears her helplessness also touches your emotions, it's worth watching many times, every time will bring a different experience.
First sight
"When I was just thirteen years old, I met her for the first time on that day in the late spring of 1941 ...... The day Mussolini declared war on Britain and France, and I, for one, got the first pedicab of my life."
She, ruffling her wavy black hair, wearing the most fashionable skirt and stockings, and stepping on heels full of erotic temptation, arrived in the quiet sunny town of Sicily.
Her every move attracts attention and seduces people, and her every smile teaches men to be mesmerized and women to be envious. Marlena, like a goddess, has conquered this town.
This is the movie's description of Marlena, such a beautiful woman, but did not expect it to bring her disaster.
Witness
It is through the perspective of Renaldo, who is only thirteen years old, that the movie's story unfolds.
He spies on Marlena, watching her dance, reading her husband's letters, and looking at her beautiful body, but slowly, through Renaldo's eyes, we see Marlena's destiny become more and more tragic.
She becomes a widow, and because she knows that her husband is in the army, the men of the town only covet her beauty, but no one takes action.
But becoming a widow, she became helpless, the women of the town were jealous of her to the bone, the men looked at her intently, and soon she lost her government pension.
In order to survive, she has to live off her flesh, and even becomes an open prostitute to please the German soldiers in the town.
One of the most iconic and heartbreaking scenes in the movie is when Marlena, beautifully dressed and minus her long hair, sits down to smoke, and a group of men fight to be the first to give her a light, a moment that was the beginning of her true descent into the darkness, unaware that she wanted someone to help her quit smoking.
She held back her tears, and the desperation in her eyes was heartbreaking. Then the Nazis failed, Sicily was liberated, and Marilyn became the object of a crowd's fury.
Those middle-aged women, cut all her hair, tore her clothes, no one to help her, the men are also familiar with the situation, did not say anything.
She clutched her body in despair, crying in pain, and there is a moment in the play where a lawyer defends her, stating this fact, that Marlena is not guilty of anything, but guilty of being too good-looking.
The twist
In the end Marilyn is forced to leave Sicily. Everything seems to be ending in a tragedy.
But then her husband returns to Sicily, he has only lost an arm, and Renaldo tells Marilyn's husband what happened by writing a letter to her husband to let him know that Marilyn is still y in love with him.
Years later, he and Marilyn return to the town, this time ending the movie with Marilyn's "good morning" at the market.
? "People don't love beauty at all, beauty is unforgivable, beauty is meant to be ravaged."
Is it really wrong to be beautiful, a group of women who are so ugly that they constantly try to vilify Marlena, their constant persecution, as if it's a sin not to be what they see in them.
Constantly putting obstacles in her way, this is what made Marlena sink step by step in order to make ends meet, she became what she didn't want to be, what she should be in the eyes of the people.
After being forced to leave the town again, when she stepped into the town again with her husband on her arm, she thought that the people would be the same as before, but she didn't realize that they accepted her, and like the woman said, she was older and fatter, but still beautiful.
But no longer as beautiful as she was then, this time the women felt equal and not so jealous, her husband appeared with her, and even more to break the rumors of the past, and when they said good morning to her, Marlena responded to the good morning, and she did not bother to take into account what they had once done to her, and what was wrong with her, if being beautiful is a sin.
The beautiful legend of Sicily, just the words of beauty can not be called a legend, but the insistence of Marlena, her sister is not wrong, the wrong is the heart.
She maintains the love of her husband, she maintains the hope of life, she forgave all those who have hurt her, and those shallow women are in sharp contrast.
Warmth"The years have rushed by, and now I've fallen in love with many women, and when they hug me tight, they all ask me if I'm hanging on to them, and I think at the time my answer was, yes. But the only one I haven't forgotten is the one who never asked me. She was Marlena."
While the movie as a whole is depressing, there's a hint of warmth in there is the young boy Renaldo, who defends Marlena and trusts her in his own way.
It's not just because of her beauty, his love is pure and unblemished, he doesn't do what the others do, denigrate her, hurt her, and even writes to her husband later to tell Marlena that he still loves her.
I think Marlena was also lucky to have a husband who didn't leave her alone, and a boy who believed in her and was willing to protect her, and her first half of her life was suffering, and she got acceptance for the second half of her life, and I think that's kind of for the best, and thankfully she survived.
"There is a beautiful woman in the north, absolutely independent. Once you look at the city, then you look at the country."
Women's beauty is really a sin, the ancient Zhou Yu Wang Beacon fire play all the vassals only for the beauty of a smile, there is "a ride on the red dust consort smile, no one knows is lychee to." Tang Xuanzong to win the heart of Yang Guifei, the thousands of miles to pass the military post used to transmit lychee and other beauty misrepresentation of the story, people say they are the scourge of the red face.
But really just a beauty can be misguided Well, throughout the ages a lot of beauty, but misguided and a few, the country's demise are attributed to women, for fear of some injustice.
Even if the beauty and then the ability to subvert a dynasty, not in line with the times of the country sooner or later will be destroyed.
And now there are a lot of people in society for beautiful women have a lot of speculation, beautiful women have more opportunities, a successful woman behind a group of men.
When all is said and done, it is that women are too good is because of men, you can see that today's society for women also exist in these injustices, but who do not want to be good, women as a disadvantaged group of society, should not be subjected to this kind of speculation, it is unfair.
Women don't have to rely on men to be successful, and women who dress well and wear fine makeup aren't trying to please the opposite sex, but to please themselves. Who doesn't want luck to favor them, provided you love life and yourself.
"Successful flower, people only envy her present bright color! However, when her buds, soaked with tears of struggle, sprinkled with the blood of sacrifice." There is no crime in being beautiful, and I wish every woman would live in the way she wants to!