Television has changed a lot when it opened 20 years ago to the private channels and now with Freeview, the picture is having a new Wiggle. Nothing excites us: the more channels tuned to a pay-unless-worst average is what you see. As if the talent is diluted among so many chain. Nor is there much imagination. When I was small, and that made some decades, every Christmas threw Wonderful Life! of Frank Capra and A fantasy world, the English title version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory shot in 1971. I remembered a movie in black and white and is now looking for it on Youtube it is in color, obviously it was in black and white was my TV. The Chocolate Factory I remember a very catchy song that went something like: "dumb, dumb, dumb, drawings, if you were wise, you'd know." And I know because I have not dreamed of meeting one (just one!) Reference on Google to ditty: the must have put another nostalgic. It's A fantasy world, I say, I have not seen him on TV but Capra every Christmas with us, without exception. I still like and do not complain that the throw, set in this time of year, like the whole family, is the quintessential buenrollismo nausea and if there are other channels where they run. But I add that if they want these days is to take beautiful film for all audiences and to transmit values \u200b\u200bthat do not expire on January 8, could be a turn in the history of cinema . Could remember, for example, a classic, wonderful as Miracle in Milan, Vittorio de Sica. I remembered and saw it tonight with my parents. DVD, of course.
Miracle in Milan is a fable for adults written in the style of the fairy tales of our childhood. In other words, it is not a story for children who are now, though they may enjoy, but rather for the children we were. The boot is very sad: an old woman takes a baby who is in his garden and raises him as his son. Mrs. Al die so the poor child admitted to an orphanage where she is educated until he becomes an adult and can go out and face the world. And the world is it the be Italy post-war. A horrible place where all seemed pretty women like Sophia Loren, who does not come up in the movie. The innocence of the protagonist will crash from the first minute with a rough city where they seem silly, but he was saddened, "good morning" does not mean "good morning." As in almost anywhere, if you reflect a little.
The poor man ends up living in a shanty town where the beggars are scrambling for a sunbeam, a coveted spot on top for a few miserable rich people in top hats, as of bright colors of Carpanta. Toto Hustler "and try to step on other heads before they step on yours? Will it become cynical in a criminal to survive? Not so. With a seamless enthusiasm, an extraordinary empathy, an absolute good-also exists, as the absolute love, and some supernatural help succeed in turning the dump into a utopia solidarity. I'm not going to keep telling the movie - watch it! - But they advance their end I think is one of the most beautiful in the history of cinema that I know.
Miracle in Milan premiered at Cannes in 1951, a couple of years before Welcome Mr Marshall! , and I dare say Berlanga was inspired by her in one scene. When the inhabitants of Villar del Río swirl to order one thing - one per person only! - The Americans continue the queue who led the people of the slums of Milan to make a wish at a magic dove. The difference is that in the Italian film, yes those desires came true ... but I'm not going to go out there telling the story.
De Sica is most known for other previous work, The Bicycle Thief . It is also a very great movie about the horrors of war, with an equally sad background The Miracle of Milan but with a much more bitter. One of the first film would circumspect, of the latter would leave with a smile. I personally do not know why The thief ... is considered best movie Miracle ... Yes, I know, the pessimism is more prestigious than optimism. And some added "is not pessimism is realism (neorealism, in this case). But if you look after those 40 dark years of Italian history, despite the corruption, the Mafia and the Red Brigades, has had more of a miracle than anything else. Italians and other Western Europeans like the Germans, French and English who were born in the years that were shot horrible these films have been fortunate to live after a period of peace, prosperity and democracy without equal in any time or place. So after all the miracles may exist. Lately I'm pretty sure it is. And no need to go to Milan to find them.
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