Year : 1994
Language : Italian
Director : Michael Radford
Il Postino is a movie by Michael Radford in italian. The movie is about a young man Mario Ruoppolo who is hired as the personal mail carrier for Pablo Neruda who happens to come and stay in the small island following his political exile from Chile. Mario's first fascination for Neruda begins when he notices the huge number of letters that Neruda receives from women around the world.
His fascination and curiosity about Neruda and his poetry draws him into focusing all his devotion and admiration to the poet. Neruda after some initial overlooking starts taking notice of him. The relationship between the poet and Mario acquires a forceful form when Mario falls in love with the local restaurant girl Beatrice and sees poetry as the only way to reach to her heart. Neruda teaches Mario how to understand poetry but Mario goes a step further and learns how to use it for softening the heart of Beatrice. Mario impresses the girl with the poems of Neruda. When Neruda complained about Mario stealing his poems, Mario says "poetry doesn't belong to the one who composed it, but to the ones who need it" :) Mario and Beatrice get married and than Neruda returned to his country Chile.
After Neruda left, the world of Mario turns upside down. Mario awaits letters from Neruda which never came. It plunges him into a state of depression and he feels he deserves to be forgotten as he is worth nothing, he is not a poet as people thought as he hadn't written anything that came from his heart. That's when he begins recording the sounds of life in the island which he thought would remind the poet of it. It was an act straight from his heart. He began writing and one of his poems that he wrote about Pablo Neruda was invited to be recited on a stage, unfortunately a fight broke out between the crowd and the police and in the stampede Mario never reached the stage. All this recording, the sounds of the waves, of the wind finally leading to the sound of the stampede was finally given to Neruda by Beatrice when long later he visited the island.
The movie delicately touches upon romance, on the beauty of poetry, the relationship between Mario and Neruda which was a complicated web of feelings that encompassed love and admiration, of friendship and of teacher and student. Mario who calls himself a communist after Neruda leaves, also showed how he bent to an ideology not out of any intellectual spark but rather for his immense devotion and trust for the man whom he believed stands for everything right and beautiful. The beautiful island with its rocky and sandy beaches, with the blue sky and the sparkling Mediterranean in the backdrop was a real feast to the eyes. Overall a great movie.
Language : Italian
Director : Michael Radford
Il Postino is a movie by Michael Radford in italian. The movie is about a young man Mario Ruoppolo who is hired as the personal mail carrier for Pablo Neruda who happens to come and stay in the small island following his political exile from Chile. Mario's first fascination for Neruda begins when he notices the huge number of letters that Neruda receives from women around the world.
His fascination and curiosity about Neruda and his poetry draws him into focusing all his devotion and admiration to the poet. Neruda after some initial overlooking starts taking notice of him. The relationship between the poet and Mario acquires a forceful form when Mario falls in love with the local restaurant girl Beatrice and sees poetry as the only way to reach to her heart. Neruda teaches Mario how to understand poetry but Mario goes a step further and learns how to use it for softening the heart of Beatrice. Mario impresses the girl with the poems of Neruda. When Neruda complained about Mario stealing his poems, Mario says "poetry doesn't belong to the one who composed it, but to the ones who need it" :) Mario and Beatrice get married and than Neruda returned to his country Chile.
After Neruda left, the world of Mario turns upside down. Mario awaits letters from Neruda which never came. It plunges him into a state of depression and he feels he deserves to be forgotten as he is worth nothing, he is not a poet as people thought as he hadn't written anything that came from his heart. That's when he begins recording the sounds of life in the island which he thought would remind the poet of it. It was an act straight from his heart. He began writing and one of his poems that he wrote about Pablo Neruda was invited to be recited on a stage, unfortunately a fight broke out between the crowd and the police and in the stampede Mario never reached the stage. All this recording, the sounds of the waves, of the wind finally leading to the sound of the stampede was finally given to Neruda by Beatrice when long later he visited the island.
The movie delicately touches upon romance, on the beauty of poetry, the relationship between Mario and Neruda which was a complicated web of feelings that encompassed love and admiration, of friendship and of teacher and student. Mario who calls himself a communist after Neruda leaves, also showed how he bent to an ideology not out of any intellectual spark but rather for his immense devotion and trust for the man whom he believed stands for everything right and beautiful. The beautiful island with its rocky and sandy beaches, with the blue sky and the sparkling Mediterranean in the backdrop was a real feast to the eyes. Overall a great movie.
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