"At the heart of the film are Alfredo (De Niro), a child born into land ownership, and Olmo (Depardieu), a child born into poverty. It turns the plot into a series of events, not a story with progression. David Lean understood this with The proof is in how much explaining the actors have to do, constantly describing what happened to their loved ones, detailing their lives instead of living them. So Bertolucci essentially creates complex metaphors of his leads, covering both class and governmental differences with one broad stroke. Bertolucci wants me to believe that DeNiro’s passivity (either due to apathy or cowardice) is the sole cause for the peasants’ misery. This is no easy undertaking, but at five hours, you can attempt such complexities.Bertolucci makes some powerful observations on the nature of fascism and communism, but it is often at the expense of his characters. The charred bodies being carted around, as those marching yell at closed windows and doors, is a great idea and a powerful image, but we don’t know any of these people who died, or what they felt about politics at all, so it’s just an amazing bit of camerawork and nothing more, nary a feeling to be had about the scene.There are a number of things that seem to be bereft of this clarity, which results in the choppy feel of the film. Olmo listens to power lines for his deceased father and Alfredo lies on the train tracks, as both did as they were children. In fact I have an Italian Blu-Ray without subtitles because I could not [then] get a proper copy with English subtitles.I understand what you mean about the ending, but I think it works in one way. Other than Depardieu none had any redeeming qualities. He discusses this in an interview on the MoC disc of Part One (the same interview that appeared on a Paramount DVD in 2006). Bernardo Bertolucci's epic historical melodrama of family and political ideas has had a difficult time reaching audiences in the form that the director intended. With the introduction of machinery and industrialization to the workplace came the separation between land owner and worker, master and peasant, bourgeoisie and proletariat. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! In April 2016 the excellent Masters of Cinema label released a 2 disc Blu-ray package offering the full version in the correct ratio and with supporting materials. Why should I care? The political struggle has moved on and left them – a process that started as long ago as 1945.You have summed up what I find problematic. No. And Laura Betti plays one of my all-time favorite movie villainess. They are painted in such political broad strokes that by the end of the picture, when Alfredo is put on trial, the audience hasn’t a clue as to whether he deserves to die or not. (There is, however, an unfortunate dialogue about this on the IMDB bulletin board.) But in its complete version, I find it difficult to understand how the director could endorse it for there are many flaws. Bernardo Bertolucci’s epic historical melodrama of family and political ideas has had a difficult time reaching audiences in the form that the director intended. It is the film’s most successful aspect because it gives the audience the impression of grandeur without the overbearing themes that are ever present in the narrative. This probably has to do with Bertolucci’s immersion in his own message, his passion and didacticism for expressing his views on Communism, personified by the Depardieu monologue, which obscures a feel for the people in the film. Larry the Vegan Cannibal likes vegetables, people, and movie reviews.

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