特殊的一天

一直以来，对于如何看待电影类型划分的问题，我都倾向于所见所感与所思既是最为有效的恒定标准。也觉得，政治、爱情、战争、家庭、青春等类型，与作者性之间不存在先来后到的主客关系。若以去意识形态化的思维来看待一部影片，至少在观感上，应该会生出些意料之外的意趣。不是否定横亘于剧情之内不断向外发散的意识形态的存在，而是绕开单一视角的思维固区与我而言的确会产生意外之喜，这与文本创作、风格建立、镜头调度等技术性呈现都无甚关系。 真要从私人有限的观影史中甄选出作者观点退位于感性表达之后又不失互助关系的作品，法国新浪潮与我而言可谓开蒙，但要说宏观视野更为开阔、微观视角更易令我动容的还属意大利电影。奥尔米的《工作》、《木屐树》、贝托鲁奇的《同流者》、《一九零零》、费里尼的《卡比利亚之夜》、保罗.索伦蒂诺的《年轻气盛》，都是予我太多美好的回忆。现在又要加上一部《特殊的一天》。影片令我感到美妙的是人物情感的纯粹，不过身份背景及时间节点又很难不让人怀疑这纯粹背后定有复杂的历史脉络待你按图索骥。但在观看它的时候，你是不会随时随地拿起这杆标尺丈量横纵的。就像影片中实时进行的广播、无近景照顾的那本三个火枪手、索菲亚罗兰细微表情变换透露出的内心摇摆、马斯楚安尼感伤交杂着快乐的多元情绪，都自然无雕饰的与符号区分开来，让人轻松浸入其中又在这一天结束时回味无穷。 感性的国家主义者与理性的自由主义者，制造出了一段专属回忆，也证明着一瞬之念于双方而言都是超越政治判定和历史印记中至此而非彼的存在。希特勒和墨索里尼之间的关系又何尝不是如此。在举国同庆的这一天为人创造着不灭的记忆，也在纳粹主义和法西斯主义之间寻觅着求同存异的平衡。这两段同一天滋生的关系，前者渡己，后者示人，本无觉悟层面的高下之分，但归于艺术创作，它便是粗略以质地坚硬的真实影像纪录为开场，书写柔和的相恋关系为过程和收尾的视觉呈现。这也是我心目中艺术家描绘人类情感最自由的表达方式：尽己所能让政治的部分尘归尘，真情实意愿私人的情感得永存。 屋外欢闹如喜获重生，屋内静谧的无人知晓。屋外人山人海却行为趋同的难以分辨，屋内二人政见不一但心有戚戚又彼此尊重。这就是对“世界”和“周围世界”最为完美的展现。《特殊的一天》想说的应该就这么多。深以为，影像创作者能感知到的人之情感变量也理应这么多。

这片不会在影视院校专业课上当表演样本放吗？就一个固定场景，一栋楼的两间房，两位大神出演了一部闪瞎眼的mini舞台剧。 第一眼楞是没认出索菲亚罗兰来，影片开头一镜到底的教科书级别的表演，没有为索菲亚收获任何奖项真有点说不过去，不过马塞洛凭借更耀眼的演技提名了奥斯卡男主。此外提名奥斯卡外语片、入围金棕榈，也算是此片赢得的最高褒奖了。 影片色调清奇，浓郁复古，摄影诱人，剧情惊艳，意大利最般配的两个大咖搭档，仅用一个多小时时间，为我们奉献了最低敛自如的舒适表演。这一天，动人的伦巴、天台的拥抱、误解与歉意、面包和煎蛋……从相识到分别，十几个小时胜过半生，就像二人喝过的那壶现磨咖啡，热烈、可口，且回味无穷。 很美又心酸的邂逅，你走了，我心里的小鸟，已飞出了笼。这是最近一段时间最喜爱的一部电影了，好看的都生出了羡慕嫉妒来。

故事发生在1938年5月6日，这个日子无论是对罗马人民或是对平凡的家庭主妇安东尼泰（索菲娅·罗兰 Sophia Loren 饰）来说，都是不平凡的一天。当日，独裁者希特勒和墨索里尼来到罗马参加高峰会议，无限吹捧他们奉行的法西斯主义，在慷慨激昂的讲话的蛊惑人心的词语之中，整个城市陷入了一片疯狂的躁动。 然而，这狂热的一切似乎都和在家中洒扫整理的安东尼泰无关，此刻的她正陷于深深的忧郁之中，被困在枯燥的婚姻和苍白的生活内无法自拔。这时，她邂逅了新搬来的邻居加布瑞乐（马塞洛·马斯楚安尼 Marcello Mastroianni 饰），在极短的时间内，两人相知相恋，迸发出了巨大的激情，可黑夜过后，一切重归平静，仿佛什么都没有发生过。©豆瓣

This strikingly beautiful and touching movie starts with a short video shot by the fascists, where the Italian people are very uniform and they are welcoming the arrival of Hitler.

Plot

On this special day, the woman's family are all going to the parade, but she is just going to stay at home to clean up the mess for her husband and six children. This could be a daily day for her, but fate made this day also special for her. Her pet parrot flew away, so she had to visit her neighbor in order to catch the parrot. And the man, her neighbor, was just attempting to commit a suicide, but was interrupted by her door bell rang. He is so willing to escape from his own pain and he felt very thankful to the woman, so he hoped the woman could stay longer and tried to talk about the book and dance with the woman. Then the phone call come in, which causes the woman to think that the man has a lover, so she just came back home. Then the man called his former boyfriend and wished him healthy, then payed this woman a visit. During the visit the woman came to know that the man is actually a nonfascist. So she wanted the man to leave. The man followed the woman to the platform and tried to amuse her. The woman realized that she cannot hold her feelings anymore, and she kissed the man but the man seemed not excited about it. The man has to explain that he is gay and the woman don't believe in it, they had some conflict and seperated. But the woman finally decided to say sorry to the man, they talked about their own stories, made love in the man's house with the woman's attempt. The woman felt satisfied, but the man said that he only loves man. They kissed and said goodbye. In the evening the woman's family came back, she watched the man left and turned off all the lights.

Questions

book and picture

"Fires"

The first scene as the woman's first appearance, the audience shortly grasp the woman as a busy housewife not that respected by the whole family. Even the parrot always call her name as "part of the family". And she is really not doing the housework in a quite efficient way perhaps because she really doesn't have much to do in the daytime.

At first the woman and the man both just want to seek some joy and relief from each other. They show each other their amazing parts, the beauty, the husband's good job, the decency, the humor sense. But then the woman knows something about the man's not faithful. This makes the woman hesitated about having fun with the man. She tried to calm herself down with the daily housework. But the man still gives her butterflies and she kissed him on the platform. Here the first boundary of fasinism is broken.

Then the woman came to know that the man is gay. But again, as human, our commonity is a lot more than the disparation. So finally they shared their deep sorrow and pain, and find out that they can understand each other as two human beings, with no labels given by the society and the era.

Most Striking part is that they made love. Yes, a woman and a gay. Now they do it to warm each other's heart.

Contrasts

the color

the positions of the windows of the man and the woman

beautiful dancing music and Fransis music

the gentle love and the rude radio of the parade

playfulness and seriousness

woman's attitude to the album and the Fransis

the old woman's craziness, the woman's compliance and the man's negative resistance

homosexual and heterosexual

nonFransis and Fransis

educated and under-educated

mainstream and marginalized

One of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen

The color, the frames and the actor stance of the movie are really amazing, especially considering the limitness of the scene (mainly platform, woman's house, man's house and a few hallway and buildings).

The hue is somewhat close to the hue of a black and white film, but with some dim lighting mixed, which gives the whole movie a sense of holy and peace. The only obvious color of the whole movie is the color of the flags of the fascis, which is also what occupies the inner worlds of Italian people. Each frame can be taken as a drawing and the actor stance really indicate their relationship.

In the following plot, the woman is looking at the man from a distance, with the wall seperating them into two worlds. But the man attracts the woman, so she finally crossed the line.

The movie is certainly about war, but it is in general introduced in a pretty reserved way. Although the radio is playing all the time, only at some points will we be caught attention to the radio related to the war. For example after the sex, when they kiss each other.

Deep sorrow and despair, yet great love

The man and the woman, both feeling isolated, marginalized and discriminated by the whole world , coming to understand each other despite all the differences between them. As long as there is still standard and law of the stronger of any form, there will be the majority and the minority, and we cannot expect that we are always in the majority side. But as mankind. And that is the most cruel part of war, that people are forced to be the same, like the soliders, the children and the adults wearing the same uniform and we can barely notice their difference.

isolated woman

This is a special day for them. But tomorrow is another routine day, the woman still buried in housework, the man still not accepted by the whole society. As the light of the woman's home dim down, the woman's heart went into despair, and the future is nothing but darkness.