当玛莱娜的主题曲再次回荡在空中时，我终于安静下来写这篇短文，以表达对这部由意大利电影艺术家Giuseppe Tornatore导演的非凡的电影的崇拜。

这部电影本身并不复杂，主要描述生活在西西里小镇上的两位人物玛莱娜和雷纳多。它用两条时间上平行而场景相互交错的线索发展电影的故事情节：一条是十二岁男孩的青春期骚动和其成熟的过程；另一条是整体的对人性的揭示。后一条线索通过美丽的玛莱娜在战时的遭遇用男孩雷纳多的双眼向观众展示。这部电影抓住人类的本性，用丰富的画面构造了迷恋、迫害和赎罪的故事。

雷纳多通过窥探屋内的玛莱娜而产生了对她的浪漫想象。玛莱娜成为了他进入青春期的最大的迷恋对象。玛莱娜是如此美丽性感以至于只要她出现在小镇的街头就会受到所有男人贪婪目光的盯视和所有妇人刁蛮嫉妒的非议。然而，玛莱娜一生的情感都保留给了她唯一所爱的在非洲作战的丈夫。当玛莱娜的丈夫被宣布战死而政府又大幅削减战争抚恤金后，端庄而又悲伤的玛莱娜只有尽其所能活下去。她与帮助过她的律师幽会；将其长发剪下出卖，以至最终从事肉体交易。雷纳多成了玛莱娜悲惨遭遇的目击者并从中获得了宝贵的人性经历。他所目击的是其他人所具备的人性的优劣；他所学到的是面对不幸所需要的勇气和必须付出的代价。电影所依托的时代更强调了这一主题。电影开始时，雷纳多将玛莱娜看成一位理想人物，一个他在青春期幻想中的偶像。当雷纳多看到了玛莱娜的痛苦和为生存而作出的妥协时，他才将玛莱娜作为一个真实的人来看待。只有在这时，雷纳多才真正成长为一个男人，也只有当他将<Ma l'Amore No>这张唱片扔进大海、当他在给玛莱娜丈夫的信中签下自己的名字时他才理解了成熟的真正内涵。

玛莱娜所受到的悲惨遭遇是战争无意义的强烈证据。战争扭曲了人们的行为，摧残了美丽。玛莱娜的美丽被视为罪恶，更严重的是，她缺少其他人可能有的尊严。她所曾经骄傲地拥有的尊严被战争无情地剥夺了，只给她留下换取食物的躯体。作为她唯一希望的丈夫，被错误地宣布战死。这成了玛莱娜日常生活的转折点。虽然最后她丈夫回来了，但玛莱娜的心灵已经受到了战争带给她的巨大伤害，正如她丈夫永远失去了一条胳臂一样。玛莱娜被一群妇人打得遍体鳞伤而佝偻着身躯向站在她面前的所有男人悲愤地哭喊的镜头不由自主地使我想起了<尤利西斯的生命之旅>中类似的场景。这两部电影在揭示人类最深层的道德以及破坏美和人性的战争的无意义上有着异曲同工的美妙，而后所发生的爱情故事则显得并不那么重要。

由Ennio Moricone作曲的电影音乐非常华丽庄重，而且与电影的主题浑然成为一体。<Malena's Theme>坚定端庄，表现出玛莱娜对生活和情感的强烈渴望。<Ma l'Amore No>是电影中唯一一首充满激情和魅力的旋律，挖掘出了玛莱娜深藏在心的对丈夫的热爱。虽然其它几首曲子显得有些沉闷，但总体上仍不失为我所听过的Moricone的最佳配乐之一。

请各位欣赏Malena这部电影,但不要仅仅停留在爱情故事上,虽然这是我们生活中必不可少的东西!
谢谢兔 兔对本文的催促! 仅将本文献给所有热爱这部电影的同仁。

最后，让我们向Tonatore和其他剧作组成员为我们创作这部佳作表示衷心感谢！

天鹅原创

2001年8月3日

As Malena's theme pervades in the air again, I eventually settle down to write this essay to express my approving attitude towards this marvelous film directed by the Italian film artist Giuseppe Tornatore.

The film itself is quite simple as it is mainly about two people, Malena and Renato, both living in the Sicilian village of Castelcuto. It has two chronologically parallel yet pictorially interwoven clues in rendering the stories, one being the adolescent agitation and maturation of a 12-year-old boy Renato, the other the comprehensive exploration of humanity, through the sufferings of the beautiful Malena during war time and developed through Renato's eyes. The film captures the essence of the people and presents a very graphic story of obsession, persecution and redemption.

Renato spies on Malena in her house and has romantic fantasies about her. He is concerned with his entrance into puberty, and Malena is his greatest object of desire in town. She's so hot that a simple walk through the town will draw the lustful glare of all the men and the cruel, envious gossip of all the wives. However, Malena's affections are reserved only for her beloved husband, serving in the army in Africa. When Malena's husband is declared dead and the government slashes everyone's pensions to help pay for the war, the decent and grief-stricken Malena does what she must to survive. She dates a lawyer who once helped her; she cuts off her hair in order to sell it; and she ultimately trades sexual favors. Renato becomes a witness to Malena's tragedy and gets valurable experiences for human morals. What he witnesses is the best (Malena) and the worst (nearly everyone else) that can come from other human beings. What he learns is something about courage and need to stand against misfortune. The time, setting, and Mussolini's fascists in the background are surely meant to reinforce this idea. For the beginning, Malena is just an ideal to Renato, an icon to place within his fantasies. Once he sees her pain, and the compromises she must make for her own survival, he's forced to view her as a real person. Only at this point does he really grow into a man. And only when he throws the gramophone record of Ma l'Amore No into the sea and signs his name in the letter to Malena's husband does he begin to realize the true essence of maturation.

The sufferings of Malena are strong evidence of the senselessness of war that distorts human behaviors and destroys beauty. Malena's beauty is considered a crime. Moreover,she lacks dignity which others may possess. The dignity that she once honorably possessed has been ruthlessly swept away by the war, leaving her only the body for exchanging of provisions. Her husband, which has been her only hope, is wrongly reported dead in the war. This is a critical turnaround in Malena's daily life. Although her husband eventually returns home, her heart has been greatly hurt just like her husband who has lost an arm forever. The scene when Malena cries before all the men of the town as she is beaten to a pulp by the local wives inevitably reminds me of similar event in Ulysses's Gaze. These two films share the common significance to explore the deepest human morals and  senselessness of wars that destroy beauty and humanity, rather than the less important love affairs that happened thereafter.

The music of the film composed by Ennio Moricone is superb and fits very well with the main idea of the film. Malena's theme is firm and decent, showing her strong desire for living and affections. Ma l'Amore No is by no means the only passionate and charming melody to explore Malena's deeply-buried affections to her husband. The other pieces of music in the film is somewhat dull. Nevertheless, it is still one of Moricone's best score I have ever heard.

Please enjoy the film of Malena and find something more than Love Affairs though it is also a necessity of our lives!

Thanks a lot to Tu Tu for his encouragement of this essay and I'd like to contribute this essay to all who love this film.

Finaly let's pay our great respect to Tornatore and all the other cast members for this great film.

LaCygne

2001/8/3

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