a perfection, a curse

"An intimate portrait and an epic story of the courage we discover, the innocence we surrender, and the memories we cherish…..forever."

-is the tagline for a new found favorite movie I actually cut a class for earlier because we were required to watch it.  The tagline came from the movie "Malèna" which is an Italian movie about a woman whose only crime is her beauty while everyone around her starts spreading false rumors, and about a boy, who observed this woman from afar throughout her demise.

I love the movie, I love how it is presented and I love how it was able to compel me to express mixed emotions throughout the film.  It was very simple, set in a time where everyone knew everyone else in the village.  It was during the world war where Italy joined and that it was mandatory for certain people to participate in the war.  Malèna's husband was a soldier and she was left to tend to herself and her father in an unwelcoming village insecure of her beauty.  They started spreading stories of her, of her real intentions in staying in a village.  Everything eventually got out of hand and this is where you start hating everything that's happening.  And while her life is being led into a desperate turmoil, a certain twelve year old boy suddenly grew up from one sight of her.  He became obsessed with her and we look into the transformation he had figured while he observed her.

Its a good movie worth watching.  We watch two lives of people who were, in a way, forced to confirm to a society that has a set of unwritten ground rules. 

I was laughing, I was weirded, I was angered, I sympathized and together I love it.