On Valentine's Day, the cinemas were tempted by the “new Bridget”, but it seems that a real gift appears in the cinemas for Women's Day. The gift comes consecutive from Italy, was filmed by Paol Sorrentino and in the Polish version is entitled “The Goddess Partenope”.
The movie tells the communicative of a female so beautiful that her name was given almost divine, Partenope. The first part of this name includes the Greek word “parthenos”, or virgin, or surname Athena, after Christendom had defeated the Greek deities given to Mary. Although the action of the movie takes place in the full churches of Naples, Athena is the patron saint of this peculiar story, both due to her virginity and wisdom. The cult of virginity so crucial in Christianity, although not in all its varieties, at the time of the emergence of early Christianity in culture aroused much controversy due to the fact that virginity is simply a choice that means saying "no" to motherhood, is simply a form of turning distant from life – which is not amazing in the case of religion, which the early believers expected the imminent end of the world. The fascinating historian Peter Brown writes about this in the book “Body and Society. Men, Women and Sexual Abstinence in Early Christianity". Denial, resignation, withdrawal are words that are 1 of the guiding themes of the latest movie Paola Sorrentino, who tells the communicative of a female so beautiful that she seems to be of a different substance than the remainder of the people, and who is incapable to experience fulfillment in love – although erotica, and this in a perverse version, is not her stranger. At the same time it is simply a movie about a female who is simply a sage, i.e. she is able to see the planet not by the prism of her fantasies about it, but is able to see and accept those aspects of it that are hard to accept. surely he sees more than most people around him. possibly the fact that Partenope becomes a sage is due to her being immersed in melancholy, that is, as Freud wrote in the classical text About grief and melancholy An incorruptible, impossible to travel, and for this reason a devastating or damaging mourner.
What's it like to be a beautiful woman?In the first part Don Quixote Cervantes is giving us Marcela's shepherd's story. Marcela is celebrated for her beauty, but she does not want to become a bride of the Lord, that is, go to a monastery, or marry. alternatively of the expected ‘yes’, a extremist ‘no’ falls from her mouth, Marcelka decides to spend her life wandering around the wilderness alone. His refusal leads to the “death of love” of many local youths. In literature created in the Catholic part of Europe after the First Council of Trent, the word "suicide" could not be used, hence this euphemistic word in the text of Cervantes, who himself was reasonable adequate to anticipate the Spanish Inquisition. By a vicious but almost inquisitive knightThe question of the reason for his refusal, Marcelka gives a amazing female in her mouth an early modern answer saying she was born free. In times of rebirth of Plato's interest, in the thought of which beauty and good are synonymous, Marcelka's communicative introduces the disturbing thought that beauty can go hand in hand with chaos, suffering, decay. In the movie Sorrentino, the beauty of Partenope ignites hopes for undetermined, though almost guaranteed happiness,which turns out to be a trap. Partenope's first triumph is that it cannot be defined by individual else's ideas about itself. Like many beautiful women, she is the individual everyone looks at, but is seldom seen, seldom tries to announcement her inside. Partenope herself has a falcon eye, she sees a lot. First of all, she understands that her admiration for her individual is truly worshipful babbling, and in most cases they come from people who do not want to spend time knowing who she is. possibly that's why he obsessively wants a punch line, the last word in all conversation, which frequently surprises the interviewer, but is almost never received as an invitation to talk. Partenope herself is open to fresh experiences, encouraged to find an actor taking time to make this effort and going to classes with a well-known professional teacher. During the first meeting, it turns out that a erstwhile beauty wears black veils, through which her face is not visible, allegedly massacred by a Brazilian surgeon. Partenope asks for the waiving of a secret for a moment, and together with it we can see that there are no monstrous scars under a thick ox.You can see a beautiful old female who can't accept that we're not only mortal, but even before that, we are subject to aging processes and like to live a fantasy of beauty that can destruct an inept surgeon, but that is not subject to the passing of time. The main character of the movie herself has no problem with aging, is free from the fantasy of immortality and so the addition in the Polish title of the word “god" before the protagonist's name is simply a mistake. In 1 of the final scenes of Partenope's movie she gets ovations that she did not get as an actress, but which she deserves as a prof. of anthropology adored by her students and students. The non-godly Partenope, so human, is not fooled by the fantasies of immortal beauty, which disagree from the beautiful actresses shown in the film, who, erstwhile aged, become an embodiment by another people's ideas about themselves, defenceless and incapable of opposing their identity.
The movie Sorrentino is an different invitation to exercise in perception, the word “see” is crucial for this work. So many things in this movie are unsuspected, the viewer gets extraordinarily much space to search for a connection between the various passages of the communicative told. The top mystery is the loneliness chosen by Partenope, which can be explained in so many ways. Sorrentino shows quite a few leads. She brings us into her family, shows her passive, indifferent parents, who bring 2 beautiful children into the world, but do not supply them with any clues as to how to find themselves in this world. Like Partenope, we are flooded with the talk of devotees, whose compliments are in fact a list of expectations or wishes that they think Partenope should fulfill. In the film, it is hard to see that Partenope's first love is her brother, beautiful like her, caught or seduced by her mother, single in matrimony to a very emotionally withdrawn father of children. In a crowd of people who revolve around the most beautiful of possible women, 1 may not announcement that only her brother has open arms and heart for her. After reaching adulthood, siblings travel to conquer the world, seeking happiness. However, the planet accepts only 1 of them, or Partenope, by denying their charms to the another of their siblings. Under tragic circumstances Partenope is left alone, and although it cannot be said that she is not trying to enter the stream of life with love, to fall in love, or even to become a mother, nothing comes of it. Eventually, her heart persists in suspension, without her brother seems incomplete, as if it were half of her own, and most likely that's why she is incapable to mourn after him, remains in a state of melancholy, which makes her mouth yield so many words of refusal, or partial resignation from life and love. respective times in the movie appears figures of mutilated ancient sculptures, which show incomplete, deadly figures of beautiful gods and 1 cannot aid but feel that they mention to the dead after the death of a brother of the main character. Nothing changes the fact that her body experiences an eros, but in a perverse version, through a colourful affair with a cynical cardinal, who, however, is simply a seducer, individual incapable of giving up in love.
Although Partenope's eroticism, despite her beauty, is her least surviving part, she is capable of love, unlike her cardinal's lover. This kind of love, which is available to the main character, the Greeks called agape, in Latin caritas, or mercy. It is simply a love for people understood as brothers and sisters, that is, people equal to us, in the same situation, without judging their choices – which is simply a certain art for a individual who sees so much. partially loving, and partially forever dead and sad Partenope can be among people with love adequate that people cling to it. She besides has individual to open her heart to, due to the fact that in the movie she meets individual who experiences possibly equally hard love story, namely the prof. of anthropology, who becomes her guide. In a movie that evokes quite a few feelings, the Partenope release scene to the secret of her master is possibly the most beautiful minute in the full communicative – unless we consider that the most touching in this movie is the love that Sorrentino professed to his city, Naples, only a fewer times hidden for appearances under powerful invectors.
The movie “Divine Partenope” can be regarded as a uncommon gift for Women's Day. How many times does a movie offer women films in which a female is available specified a large scale of human experience – beauty, melancholy, mutilation, perverse eros, but besides the ability to be merciful, wisdom that gives life value, but besides does not replace the full ability to love. It will not be amazing that erstwhile the action takes place in Naples, the movie frequently features the subject of the sea, in the waters in which the protagonists are immersed – most frequently falling, as if losing balance, falling on the water pane with their backs. Just watching this movie is like immersing in deep feelings, thoughts, experiences that can become our share, hence it is worth allowing yourself to jump into truly deep water and spend any time in the cinema on the latest movie Paolo Sorrentino.
