‘Poetry doesn’t belong to those
who write it, but those who need it.’
An enchantingly beautiful cinema
full of positivity vibes about life that offers a bit of everything- poetry,
politics, romance, sublime friendship, subtle humor, religious puns, soothing
background score, natural landscape visuals, touching performances and above
all fine metaphors of life. A
fisherman’s son Mario has curious inclination towards life and external world
than being fisherman like his hard working father. He’s quite learned man and
so turned to a post man’s job at a remote Italian small town clad with
beautiful landscape of mountain and seashore. Here arrives a world famous poet Pablo
Neruda on exile due to his communist leanings. Mario has to serve as delivery
post man to him and he’s curious to know the reason of poet’s huge female fan
following. As the sublime friendship between the poet and him grows, he’s
fascinated with the idea of being poet as he feels that poets are loved by
women. Mario is man of imagination lacking talent but the delightful company of
poet and his poetry helps him to see life in different perspective with use of metaphors
about life around that helps him to win the heart of his sweetheart. The exile
is over and the poet returns to his homeland. Years passed and the poet returns
to find the man who writes him a most treasured poem. The sublime end touches
anybody’s heart where we witness the greatest poet yearning for a lost poem of
his life!
Il Postino is an simple and
moving Italian film full of heart and soul at right places that keep spreading
genuine smiles and emotions on your face without any sort of unnecessary
melodrama or overtly complex characters. Massimo Troisi deserves a posthumous
award for this swansong performance of his life. It is sad to know that the man
needs a heart surgery during the shoot of the film but his priority was towards
finishing the film. It is tragedy that he passed away due to heart attack immediately
after the shooting of the film is completed. I must say this is one of the most
breathing natural act I’ve seen in Italian cinema; with his honest face and
body language devoid of any direct or indirect screen presence consciousness he
literally brought the naïve and innocent heart of postman so naturally on the
screen. Philippe Noiret as poet Neruda is charismatic too and acted with so
much ease.
At one point of the film, Mario
simply said to Neruda, ‘This whole world is a metaphor for something else.’ So
true!
Ratings-10/10
No comments:
Post a Comment