3 Movies To Excite You
Often you have asked the help of a movie lover friend to recommend a movie to experience intense emotions. Some with a greater intellectual depth, which require more digestion to appreciate the scope of their argument.
Others, however, invite “the light and easy tear”, but they are no less worthy of being seen for how quickly they alter your affectivity. For all of them you will be able to find a space and a moment -preferably nocturnal- so that they, in turn, find a hidden corner in you: a high-speed fiber that transports you to past sensations or future desires.
The encounter with each one of the films that we see throughout our lives may be fortuitous, but it underlies many of the feelings and sleeping words that we harbor. It is a blind date in which we have little risk of losing something valuable but gaining a unique intimate moment and space. Movies to excite you, so that there is a space for reciprocity alone in front of the screen.
Rocco and his brothers
A classic does not go out of style no matter how black and white it may be, since it always keeps a kind of premonition that will change shape over time, so its message will always be “the order of the day”. Luchino Visconti tells the story of a family of emigrants from southern Italy who arrive in Milan with the intention of seeking a better life. There are many moments of slow images and long silences.
Italian neorealism is like that, it seeks the connection with the viewer allying itself with sparse accessories and / or artistic beads. The art lies in leaving the imagination hollow to be filled by individual impressions; not so much from the director himself, but from the viewer. The new reality rewritten in our head, through our own life, in connection with what we see on the screen.
The film exposes the feeling of emptiness and the search for identity of the emigrant forced to be one, even more complex when this search occurs as a family. The future of each of the members of this family will change the lives of all of them individually.
Through the eyes of an Alain Delon (the eternal “nobody” before Jean Paul Belmondo), superb in the cleanliness of his performance, we see the kindness and absolute determination of a young man to maintain his family identity; honored and brave but continually denying the vile actions of his brother Simone.
The film is finished off in genius by the role of the prostitute Nadia, with whom the brothers Simone and Rocco fall in love. This story shows once again that the combination of “bad girl” with sensitive man is exciting and juicy, with a brutal chemistry between the protagonists.
To always remember the allegorical and sparkling shots of Annie Girardot, a cult actress with an overflowing talent. Slow-cooked movie, which may be too long while you watch it, but you miss it as soon as it is finished.
Frank teaches Maggie to always protect herself against her adversaries, but he is not sufficiently prepared to accept how vulnerable and strong the person he coaches has become. With a boxing gown with the inscription in Gaelic we will understand the whole inner world of Frankie at the end of the film. Possibly then you are already wrapped in an ocean of tears without realizing it.
Always at your side Hachiko
Respecting all those who do not have a special predilection for dogs, few films can move us as much as Hachiko. If you can’t get enough of the plot and the delicious movie, simple and beautiful where they are, the excitement can intensify when you know Hachiko really existed.
Dogs are still an animal, but their gaze seems to convey something different to us. We do not “come” from them, we will never be like them … they are only here to accompany us and give affection. The loyalty of a dog should not be misunderstood: a dog runs away and despises its caretaker if it is mistreated or ignored.
The unconditional love of a dog for the person who accompanies it is only truly understood when a bond of reciprocity has been established and affection is a kind of gift that is installed in the spirit of both. Breaking that bond is sometimes too hard, and in the film we see how an animal sometimes harbors feelings of respect and loyalty that are recommended for all human beings.
