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The last 15 minutes (ending)

posted 13 years ago by GiadaValenti
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I loved the film, but i hated the ending. It was built up so beautifully, but the ending seemed rushed. in the last 15 minutes of the film giuseppe dosen't want her, then he does, he takes her virginity then he is arrested, beaten up does 2 years in jail, gets out, finds out beata has gone crazy visits her and then leaves..

All that in 15 minutes or so, the relationship with beata was never really built up , maybe i missed something but it was never explained why she went crazy.

It was so beautifully and slowly built to just be rushed at the end.

Though i did love the ending with the people montage.

[–] Professicchio 12 years ago

*SPOILERS ALERT*
If you have watched carefully "The Star Maker" and "Cinema Paradiso" you'd have noticed that they share an almost exact same ending, the only difference being while in CP the "montage" that the protagonist goes through to relieve his memories is a sequence of film scenes, in this one it's a recording of human voices: some people might call it "artistic consistency" while I simply prefer to call it laziness due to the fact that by the end Tornatore had simply run out of ideas.

I am not a big fan of this film despite its usual formal qualities: too much in it stinks of "typical foreign crowd-pleaser, made for US audiences" and frankly we can live better with a bit less stereotypes of Sicilians being either stupid or desperate.

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[–] Professicchio 12 years ago

I can because it's meant to have the same purpouse in both films: the protagonists both make a connection with what went through their lives by playing a montage of scenes that where "cut out" from their own pasts, film clips in "Paradiso" and sound recordings in this one.
The difference was that it felt a bit redundant and not very convincing the second time around.

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[–] Professicchio 12 years ago

I never mentioned the story in itself and only now you are talking about it, as I have said: it's not the story that is identical, it's the meaning and the purpouse that reflects that.
The details of the story are not at all too relevant to me in this case, you can choose what you take from it, I do things my way likewise.

[–] TheMachinistSleeps 9 years ago

I am not a big fan of this film despite its usual formal qualities: too much in it stinks of "typical foreign crowd-pleaser, made for US audiences" and frankly we can live better with a bit less stereotypes of Sicilians being either stupid or desperate.

I know this post is old, but I just wanted to say that I'm from Australia and I liked this film. I also thought that it could have been set almost anywhere in the world, in any country, and there would be small towns like these where people were just hard working and desperate for something else. I didn't think of it as a Sicilian problem...

[–] Elder_Yautija 9 years ago

I agree with you. And, if I may add something, I'd like to say that this film is set in the years just after WWII, so yes, it might seem stereotypical nowadays to display poor Sicilian towns the way the film does, but it happens to be the way things were. And, in some case, they still are now.