Malena (2000)

Hitler rightly says that"The more I know people, the more I love dogs". And it is also said that we humans are most smart ANIMALS! But at least Animals are not FAKE.It takes an effort to become a true Human but who cares?people are happy to live like animals bcuz it is far easy.Most people with no inner self treat helpless,weak or alone people the same way as alone Malena was treated in this movie.A person with no inner self has a brain with no wisdom!then his brain works the same way as it works for animals no principles nothing just a machine.People who blame others for their own vices are shown in this movie. Yes Malena has an attractive beautiful body but this only the outer part of her, the actual Malena is hiding inside that beautiful body which is far more beautiful but never seen by anyone or no one actually wants to see it!Her beauty has become a curse as it hides all her emotions inside itself and to look that inside it requires an eye of a soul not of a smart intelligent brain.We are not so called human but we are Human we are soul! So Guys watch this movie to examine your self if your are a soul or just a body?

The story first seems as a it's only focused on Renato and the depictions of his wild and childish imaginations while he's jerking off. But slowly and surely the side plot of Malena's life starts to take center focus and becomes the main focus nearing the movie's end. What's nice is that both focuses are depicted accordingly. The movie doesn't take lightly in portraying each sides of the story. It went on wild and crazy on Renato's imagination and on how he almost devoted his adolescent life to stalk on Malena.. Yet the movie also gives a good matured view on the focus of Malena's life. The story plays it nicely on telling how fate seemingly throws in inevitable situations again and again at her life. The movie uses nice touches of editing and fancy fast cuts here and there. We see great usage of camera angles and a lot of close ups focusing on Renato's expressions. The acting is a good work in overall. Playing the lead character Renato, Giuseppe Sulfaro acted out well enough maintaining the sad looks in his character's innocence. Monica Bellucci did well in portraying the expressions needed as a widow in such conditions, although the final conflict shot feels quite lacking.

Malèna is a 2000 Italian romantic drama film starring Monica Bellucci and Giuseppe Sulfaro. It was directed and written by Giuseppe Tornatore from a story by Luciano Vincenzoni In 1941, Renato was 13 years old and although the world was at war, nothing ever happened in his sleepy village in Sicily. Until the day he discovered something that would change his life forever... Malena, the beautiful young war widow who was the obsession of every man and the envy of every woman. Because of her, Renato will come to learn all of life's lessons and find himself in places he never could have imagined. Despite Bellucci's strong presence in a role with little dialog, the central character never really comes alive in any way interesting enough to give her ordeal much genuine pathos.

Malèna Scordia shown as an object of desire for men and an object to envy for women. Set in 1940, the movie deals with the story of 27 year old beautiful widow in an Italian village. From the eyes of Renato, a 12 year old, Malèna arouses sensual feelings (quite normal as the other kids in the neighborhood) and I admire the way the director shows it in a series of scenes. The way the boy's father beats and scolds deserves laugh and applause. IMO, I feel that the director pushed way too hard abusing the character (Malèna) almost every other scene and it makes the viewers feel that the village women ain't got other work than abusing the poor widow. The level of sentiment quotient in this work makes it one short of being 'Irresistible', yet Monica Bellucci looks Irresistible in the scene where she is dressed as the Holy Mother