About Movie
Malena suffers from bad luck after her husband depicts the army and local gossip tarnishes her good name. She was not ready to quit her job and the wartime poverty forces her to date German soldiers. From a story by Luciano Vincenzoni, Giuseppe Tornatore wrote and directed the 2000 film Malèna, a historical romantic drama. Giuseppe Sulfaro and Monica Bellucci star in it. At the 2001 Cabourg Film Festival, the film was awarded the Grand Prix. The film was up for Best Original Score and Best Cinematography at the 73rd Academy Awards.
Movie Theme
The theme shows curiosity about the story’s implied position on the main topic or message. In a story, themes intends to convey important ideas and messages about problems that the characters and setting face. Malena suffers from bad luck after her husband is called up by the army and local gossip tarnishes her good name. Due to the unjustified scandal, she is forced to quit her job as a teacher, and the wartime poverty forces her to date German soldiers.
Malena Movie Plot
Renato, an adolescent boy from Castelcut in Sicily, experiences three significant occurrences on June 10, 1940: the outbreak of World War II, the acquisition of a brand-new bicycle, and his first encounter with Malèna, the most coveted young woman in the town. Her husband is in the armed forces fighting the British in Africa, and she lives alone. Because of her beauty and solitary status, she is an object of lust for all the town’s men and of hatred for its women. She watches over her before, single father, who is frail, until he receives a note from someone else slandering her, which causes him to reject her. Malena is the object of Renato’s obsession, and he observes her at home and when she leaves. He steals some of her underwear from her clothes line to fuel his erotic fantasies.
His parents become enraged when they discover it in his bedroom and attempt to break his fixation. Malèna’s isolation is made worse when she learns that her husband has died. Rumours grow around her, which she unwisely fuels by allowing an unmarried air force officer to visit her after dark. The officer testifies that he was merely an occasional friend when she is accused and put on trial. Malèna does not condemn him for the hurtful betrayal. Her attorney visits her following her acquittal and rapes her. Renato makes the decision to act as Malèna’s shield, pleading with God and his saints to watch over her and carrying out small acts of vengeance against those who have criticised her.
Central Theme Of Story
He doesn’t realize that his perceptions of her are no different from those of the locals, and he also doesn’t know how Malèna feels. In the meantime, the war has reached Sicily, and the Allies bomb the town, killing her father. Now penniless and universally scorned, with nobody willing to give her work, she sinks into prostitution. She now appears to the townspeople to be a whore rather than a dangerous widow. Renato faints when he comes face to face with his idol and two German soldiers during the Nazi occupation of the town. His mother believes it is demonic possession, taking him to a priest for exorcism. He fantasies that Malèna is the body selling with whom he has sex there.
Character Plot
To escape further persecution, she leaves the hostile town. After a few days, her husband Nino, who was a prisoner of war and survived but lost an arm, returns to look for her. His house has been taken over by displaced people and nobody wants to tell him how to find his wife. In an unidentified note, Renato informs him that she still loves him but has been ill and moved to Messina. Nino and Malèna seem strolling through the town when they return a year later. Women notice she now looks more matronly and plain. She is no longer a threat to them now that she gets married and lives with her husband, despite her beauty. So people begin speaking of her with more respect.
When she goes to the market, the women who beat her say good morning and call her madam. Walking home, some fruit falls from her bag and Renato rushes to pick it up. The only time either of them has ever spoken to or looked at the other openly is when he wishes her luck. She gives him an enigmatic half-smile. Renato thinks back on the many women he has known and loved, but he has never forgotten Malèna.
