Baaria who has seen the last movie of Giuseppe Tornatore?
mean Having regard to the last frame, trying to extend its vision beyond what they got up and began to put coats and jackets and push to exit row seats were still flowing while the end credits?
who were able to catch those last sequences between the heads and bodies of the other viewers, you probably have noticed that in that final win on the reality of remembrance rebuilt memory: accompanied by the voices of the protagonists of cultural and political life Bagheria (Guttuso the painter, the poet Buttitta and others), on-screen images appear less shiny ones we've seen before, beautiful shots and less refined, but not for this less exciting. These are the images of Bagheria than once and not Baaria memory, and their grain, their trends and uncertain jumping suggests that individuals may be drawn from the film. Of those who do not know. I do not doubt that even those could be turned into a time away from the director himself, and indeed any attempt to find the frame effect makes me believe likely.
But this is not the point.
The point is that those images private either introduce a wide discrepancy with what we have seen so far. It is as if the act of taking leave from his audience the director says, what you have seen so far is what I remember and I guess, what you see now is what it was. Images then introduce private one-dimensional "real" memory, which reveals the fiction of the previous reconstruction without diminishing, but rather bring out its best: in perfect continuity, I would say, with the dream images that open and close the film. And if they introduce the theme of time, as summed up perfectly the other major theme of the film, memory.
This is just a small detail, I do not know how significant for the overall opinion on the film. But I was impressed because I was brought to mind other uses of the cinema "private" within the film, and especially because I was reminded of two other episodes, which can add to this, are almost a little compendium of possible uses (or at least frequent) of home movies in the cinema of fiction.
Remember the beginning of Main Street by Martin Scorsese, the headlines?
not?
Well, here they are.
Here, it is clear, the private film is used to introduce the theme of remembrance. The director wants to emphasize that the story is going to tell us part of your experience, if not of his biography. It does this by using the fiction of a private film, visual motor for excellence memory and nostalgia. (It would then be asked why use a "home movie" and not a photograph but, I think, has to do with the social uses of amateur cameras: and maybe this will be discussed again)
Scorsese still use the family movie, for example does it in one of his masterpieces, Raging Bull. The film - and I say to those unfortunates who have not seen it - tells the rise and fall of Jake La Motta portrayed in a dazzling black and white.
a look at the headlines to understand what I mean.
The only exception, the only times when the screen is colored when it shows some fragments of the family life of Jake, told through the use of their own home movies. I have not found the fragment, so you can trust. In those sequences the "movies" show us the few moments in the life of the boxer that are not dominated by violence, just good times emphasized the use of color in a poignant contrast with the black and white of the rest of the film. A few passages in which Scorsese captures perfectly the whole film full of nostalgia and family at the same time, contrasting them immediately to the scene of much hard home life, revealing the mechanisms of self-representation and thus, indirectly, their inherent ability to conceal the reality.
And so we return in Baar, which - once again - a film showing to grasp the nuances of meaning hidden in a simple family movie, if Scorsese introduced with the size of memory or put tension in daily life and imagination of everyday life, with Tornatore escape the past to perspective deformations of memory. It introduces a wonderful contradiction in a movie all based on your memory and nostalgia for the untried. "
