new place

so its a new job and a new city for me. so much different from the small job and the small city i left behind. feeling a lot like an uprooted plant. formal dressing, formal people. there is not much intimacy. and its difficult to be intimate when we use alien languages.

Malena

One scene of this movie just made my blood cold. I was like shivering
even though the climate was pretty hot. The scene has a bunch of
women beating up this young widow malena (monica bellucci) who is
almost naked, dragging her down a set of step with her breasts to the
floor, kicking her, slapping her, and finally cutting her hair to
shreds. The reason for the outrage is 1) malena is georgious 2)she is
a widow on lookout for married men 3) she slept with the invading
germans (the place is italy).
The movie cannot be termed realistic and the theme is a young boy
falling madly in love with malena. The whole of the town shows their
unshameful admiration to malena who is waiting for the return of her
husband from war front. Every one in town gossips about malena and our
hero is the only fellow who knows that malena is a faithful wife
waiting for her husband. The movie starts with mussolinis call for war
and the whole of town seems to be lot supportive about it. After the
death of her husband malena looses her resolve and has some suitors
who left her with more disgrace and later she is even shown sleeping
around for food. The beautiful malena who lives in a large house
having random suitors to meet her basic needs looks unreal but we dont
have much idea what all war can bring on to a society.
After the liberation of the town from the nazis by americans the first
mentioned scene enacts and after that malena leaves the town. Out
little hero is a mute witness to all these events. All the while
except when she is beaten up malena has a cold face, we never see her
smile, cry, just one single emotion of blankness. Dont know what it
signifies. And after that malenas husband comes back from death and
what meets him in his home town is people who wont talk to him. The
film has kinda a happy ending with a strong note made by our young
hero who gives a clear perspective of the events to malenas' husband
through a letter and with their reunion in the city. I really loved
seeing malena and husband walking hand in hand in the same town(though
her expression is cold as before).
Finally we have malena being welcomed by the town women when she goes
to the market and she reciprocating in the same way. Like once she has
regained her social validity she is forgiven. Looked really sick to
me.