I loved this movie and hope the in-production English language version is good, although I usually cringe at remakes. Anyway, I was wondering what others' thoughts are about the last scene, the one with the dancing -- is it real or is it one of the many dream sequences that Rosalba has throughout the movie? I could see it as either way... I hoped it was actually happening to the characters yet it had a dream-like quality too.
shareI'm pretty sure it was real.
sharei never had this doubt, and i have seen this movie LOTS of times... ;-)
it is a poetic and visionary movie, anyway.
Not a dream sequence but a representative state of the way Rosalba felt at the end of the movie. She was happy and when one is happy, everything is rosy.
shareThat really cleared it up. Thanks mchare...
shareI agree.
I don't think it was a dream -- would she dream about a Fernando lip-synching to a record?
I don't think it was real either. Somebody noticed the guy who had given Rosalba a ride. I didn't see him, but I thought I recognized the sleazy guy of the floating "hotel" (I could be wrong). Anyway, what would either of them be doing there if it were real?
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Yes, the sleazy guy from the floating hotel was there in several shots (I just watched it again last night). Constantin could have invited him, I suppose.
The makeup that Rosalba is wearing in this scene is so over-the-top for her that it's one vote for "unreal." I guess we're really not meant to know!
I always thought the presence of the pale guy Rosalba got a ride from was a little fishy, so thats why I consider it a dream scene. Anyone else notice him?
shareNo, I didn't notice him before. Like I said, it could be either real or a dream. Better for me to keep wondering, I suppose. :-)
shareI think it's real. I didn't notice this the first time around, but when I watched the movie a second time (and a third, and a fourth. . . ) I saw that Fernando wasn't actually singing - he was lip-synching to a record! I think that if it were a dream sequence, Rosalba would picture him being able to revive his singing career.
shareI think Soldini sets the scene up to look like a dream, and then shows its reality by showing the song playing from the record player. We see the player twice (with Eliseo turning up the volume) as if to reinforce the reality. That doesn't mean that there isn't some fantasy mixed in there, too, with the other characters' presence -- I think he is trying to show how her life is taking on the vividness of her dreams, so much so that the disparate connections that brought her to Venice in the first place have all found a place in her new life.
shareClearly we are not supposed to know for sure if the ending is a dream or not! We do know that this women has been transformed from a miserable trapped housewife to a liberated women, whatever the precise decision she made was in regards to her future.
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I think it was real. I hope it was. All of them should be happy I loved the tango.
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