英语翻译本片是意大利导演朱塞佩·多纳托雷的成名作,也是欧洲当代艺术电影中最为中国观众熟悉和感动的一部.影片有一种温暖人心

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本片是意大利导演朱塞佩·多纳托雷的成名作,也是欧洲当代艺术电影中最为中国观众熟悉和感动的一部.影片有一种温暖人心的酸甜,让电影的无穷魅力得到释放.本片是为热爱电影的电影工作者、电影观众而精心制作的一部关于电影的礼赞,荣获戛纳影展特别评委奖及奥斯卡最佳外语片奖.
对生活于俗世的人们,电影院也许正是一座尘世的天堂.《天堂电影院》中出现的人物,无论是著名的电影导演、放映员还是观众,都呈现出一种特殊的生活态：与电影的联系远远超于日常生活.他们活动的中心场景是电影院.与此相关,似乎他们生命的主题也是电影.动人心弦的是,电影中的爱情镜头被一一剪断,当人们把它重新连接在一起时,这个令人怀想、沉思、感慨的主题显得更加悠远而有力.
回忆形成了影片的基本构造.缅怀之情又自然而然倾泻于回忆之中,成为一种绵长的格调.天堂影院的兴衰,极为确定而又充满情感地与一种文化的兴起与衰落相对应.不断的闪回镜头与现在时空镜头交叠映现,小托托成长为大导演,当年的放映员已辞别人世,昔日爆满的影院在一瞬之间化为灰烬.这种极为强烈的对比手法,使影片中的时空变化获得了展露时空本身的强大魅力.
从童年的多多开始回忆,然后是青年的多多,直到多多离开小镇,回忆结束,闪回到现实,多多坐飞机回到了小镇.这就是影片叙事结构的骨干,需要说明的是,回忆部分一直如流水般发展,没有一次闪回到现实.影片选择简单自然的叙事结构目的很明确,回忆往事时,人们往往选择一个安静之处,不希望被打扰,记忆最深处的碎片需要慢慢梳理.影片的各个环节处理得自然流畅,比如中年多多躺在床上回忆时,海风吹到屋内,屋内的风铃叮当作响,这时镜头一转,闪回到童年多多,他在教堂里睡觉,手里拿着祭司用的摇铃,比如阿尔夫莱多的手抚在童年多多的脸上,再展开时,多多已经长大.
在叙事的主干上还生了几个生动的枝条,与主干相映成趣.比如阿尔夫莱多仿佛象征着电影的发展历程,他从默片时代就开始在电影院放片子,当他和多多相处最快乐的时候,恰恰也是人们最热爱电影的时光,当他在大火中失明,多多替代了他,继续为人们制造快乐,穿插期间的电影也在向我们展示着电影在技术、形势和内容方面的的发展（比如胶片的发展,比如吻戏被删到色情片,比如从黑白片到彩色片等等）,当多多陷入情网,电视诞生了,开始对电影院悄然发起进攻,阿尔夫莱多离世后,天堂电影院被炸毁,那似乎象征着一个时代的结束,电影不再是人们生活的重要部分.

Italian film director Giuseppe Duonatuolei shot to fame,but also the most European of contemporary Chinese art film audiences are familiar with and moving one.Film has a warm and sweet and sour,so that the endless charm of the film be released.Film is the filmmakers who love film,film viewers and elaborate a praise on the film,won the Cannes Film Festival Special Jury Award and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film Award.
People living in the earthly,the cinema is perhaps an earthly paradise."Cinema Paradiso" characters appear in,whether it is a famous film director,projectionist or spectators,has emerged as a special state of life:the link with the film is far from super in daily life.The center of their activities is the cinema scene.In this connection,it seems that the theme of their lives is also a movie.Touching scene,the film has been 11 cut the lens of love,when people put it back together,this very notion,meditation,emotion,the subject of even more distant and powerful.
Recalled the formation of the film's basic structure.Cherish the memory of feelings they naturally dumped in the memories to become part of a dragging style.Cinema Paradiso rise and fall,very identifiable and full of emotion with the rise and decline of a culture that corresponds to.Flashback lens constant lens overlap with the present space-time mapping are small Toto grow into big-time director,when screening workers who have leave of this world,once full of theaters in the blink of an eye among the ashes.This very strong contrast to the way,so that the film won the spatial and temporal changes in space-time itself is a powerful charm unfolds.
A lot of childhood memories from the beginning,then a lot of young people,until the lot to leave the town,recalls the end of flash back to reality,a lot to fly back to the town.This backbone of narrative structure is the film needs to be explained that the recall has been like running water as part of the development,there is no time flashing back to reality.Video options are simple narrative structure of a natural purpose is very clear recollection of events,people often choose a quiet of the office,do not want to be interrupted,memory fragments of the deepest needs of slowly comb.Handled all aspects of the film a natural flow,such as the middle-aged lot of memories of lying in bed when the wind blew inside,the house sound of wind chimes jingle,when the lens a turn,flash back to childhood notwithstanding,he was sleeping in the church,hand - Village priests holding rattles used in,for example Eerfulai lot more hand on the face of childhood,and then expand when the lot have grown up.
The backbone of the narrative still gave birth to a few vivid branches,and trunk exist side by side.For example Eerfulai film more like a symbol of the development process,from the silent era,he began to put the film at the cinema,when he and lots along the happiest time,this is exactly what people most love movie time,when he fires the blind,lot replaced him,and continue to the people to create happy,interspersed during the movie to show us the film is also in technology,situation and content development (such as film development,such as kissing scene cuts to pornographic films,such as from black and white to color film,etc.),when the lot fall in love,television was born,began to quietly Cinema to launch an attack Aerfulai more upon his death,Cinema Paradiso has been blown up,and that seems to symbolize the end of an era,the film is no longer an important part of people's lives.