Cinema Paradiso

This film took place in Italy. A country in Europe. The main characters consist of a boy named Salvatore Di Vita, and Father Adelfio, Maria Di Vita. The film started out in Salvatore Di Vita's childhood. He was a young boy who enjoyed causing trouble such as take the money his mother gave him to buy milk with and instead spends the money on a movie ticket. The boy enjoyed watching movies and seeing the production of movies. His mother then catches his walk out of the theater and he gets spanked by his mother. The owner of the movie theater sees whats going on and helps the boy out. He gives the boys mother money and makes up an excuse of how he lost it.

The boy works at a church with father Adelfio. The boy does a poor job managing the bell ringing at certain moment of the sermen. The boy is always spacing off and sleeping. He does a very poor job of it. The boys dream is to become a film producer or a film maker. He bothers the man that owns and works at the cinema in Italy. He takes the blocked scenes of the films and brings the home the film strips and makes up a story about the scenes.

The film shows the different stages of the little boys life. The film shows the boy's childhood, the adolescent year of him going into the army and fighting in the war. It also shows Salvatore in love. Then his years after. The boy is now a grown man who owns his own cinema and shows films. His love is off at a university and visits occasionally.

Salvatore goes back to his hometown after Alfredo passes away. He sees that the cinema that he grew up with had passed away also. He is very sad about this matter. So he decides to take after.

This was a very interesting film. It showed many different aspects of the movie. And how people in italy live their lives. It is very similar to people in the United States. I learned how people in the 40's watched movies. They would have to wound the film by hand. But as time went the technology progressed, so people didn't have to do everything by hand accept entering it. I would give this film a couple stars out of 10.