This romantic comedy film is a classic among classics, and has been screened time and again over the years, with generation after generation of moviegoers falling in love with it. At the same time, it's a fascinating film that's so ineffable, words lose their color in front of it.
The film's greatest success lies in its portrayal of a beautiful but unfulfilling love, just as "Titanic" did decades later. The beauty of love lies in its fleeting and inexorable nature. After successfully creating a comedic atmosphere, the movie turns around and achieves a tragic ending (which, of course, had no choice), and the combination of the two is surprisingly so successful that it's no wonder it's an absolute classic. Pure comedy and monotonous tragedy can't get out of their own limitations and move up a notch, and it's the kind of movie with tears in the corners of your eyes after you've laughed that captures the audience's heart.
The script, the skill of the director, and the acting skills of the two lead actors complement each other. William Wheeler has always been known as the "director of directors, giants of giants", in his hands, the film is both elegant and charming, both romantic and sentimental, everywhere flashes of wisdom highlights. Pike and Hepburn met on the street a scene, not how much exaggerated action or flirtatious language, relying solely on the tension of the plot and performance is enough to let the audience in the pleasure of y remember this classic moment. This kind of measured, tasteful details of the arrangement and performance in the back is more prominent: Hepburn with Pike home on the stairs a paragraph, the two people have a conversation with each intention, two people roaming the streets of Rome and so on and so forth, and even in the film's climax of a fight farce did not reduce the details and performance of the taste requirements. B style='color:black;background-color:#ff9999'> the admonition of ruthenium B style='color:black;background-color:#ff9999'> a kiss as if to make the time stand still; the princess returned to the embassy after a black dress The back of the princess after returning to the embassy in a black dress; the press conference of the two speechless staring at each other; the last shot of the movie to follow Pike out of the hall of the long shot, are y left in the audience's memory.
Pike and Hepburn's contribution to the movie's performance is evident ****, Pike played the American journalist Joe Blythe's emotional and psychological changes, very layered in the movie, the performance is subtle and not cumbersome; and Hepburn's Princess Anne in a teenage love affair after the gradual transformation of the royal little girl into a mature heir to the Royal Family, the process is also played in a silky smooth and calm, and the princess is always grasped the Princess. From the beginning to the end to grasp the princess of the royal family style.
In addition, the movie's several Italian supporting characters are very good, send Pike and Hepburn cab driver chattering about their own family difficulties, Pike's landlord fussed with a broken gun outside the door of the house guard - clearly an old Italian partisan, for Hepburn haircut hairdresser a kind of Italian love and so on, many supporting actors successful performances.
Most of the love in the world is incomplete, and there is no greater tragedy in the world. In the movie, for this pair of men and women, the real regret and real comfort is that the two people did not say "I love you" the three words (like the "Journey to the West" in the Wukong to Zixia, the same), only a deep kiss. But the two people understand the infinite love and helplessness is not language can express, this is the reason why the movie has become a classic key.