One Of the Best
This is one of my favorite movies ever.
Maybe my first favorite.
It has everything that everybody can relate to.
All the human elements are here.
First love, love found, love lost, family, friends, memories, regret, sadness, not to
mention love for the movies. Which is why we do what we do.
It's not a perfect movie but for me it's the perfect movie.
The simplicity of this movie is what makes it so good.
One of my favorite scenes is when Alfredo is going to school and Toto won't help him cheat.
This is when the child has the upper hand with the adult. Toto is learning
the ways of the world. He's beginning to not be a child anymore.
Simply a brilliant scene.
We see Toto grow up and develop his love for movies.
We see him form relationships that he will have with him for the rest of his life.
Even though he doesn't know this yet.
We all have the things in this movie in common.
This is why we watch movies. It brings us all closer to each other.
This was a much simpler time. The message still holds up in today's world.
Toto learned at a young age that tragedy is a part of life.
It helped him become who he was.
His father is never coming back, the life he knows will never change unless
he does something, people you love will get hurt (Alfredo in the fire) etc...
He had such a deep affection for Alfredo that he listened to the last thing
Alfredo told him. Don't look back.
Some might say it was an easy way to not deal with things.
This might be true eventually but it couldn't have been easy at the beginning.
We all adapt to our surroundings.
Plenty of laughs in this movie also. A lot like life.
When you think back to some of the people you knew as a child sometimes
you laugh. It's all part of the experience of life. The good and the bad.
Towards the end when the man shouts "this square is mine"
It shows him that for as much as life changes it still remains the same.
The ending sequence is for me one the greatest in cinema history.
I tear up every time I see it. The same way I did in the theater 30 years ago.
Not many films can say that.
For me a mark of a great film is feeling about it now just like you did when
you first saw it.
I watch newer movies and am often disappointed.
When I watch this movie It reminds of what movies are capable of.
What movies are supposed to be. How they should make you feel.