Il Postino


Watched this wonderful and poignant film recently. It took me to a different world, into an old Italian Fishing village tucked away in time.

Mario(played by Massimo Troisi) , a young lad who has no intentions of following the usual fishing job in his village , takes up a temporary job as a postman and meets the famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda on his trips delivering letters. Massimo's performance is one of the best ever seen on screen, its perfect to the 'T'.

The relationship between the postman and the poet grows and postman learns to love poetry and also with Pablo's help and his poetry is able to communicate his feelings for to young woman he meets.

The story is just perfect and takes you to a old world which still exists in villages today, where time stands still , where relationships are built and one can ponder about so many aspects of life.

As the film progresses, Pablo moves on but Mario still rememebers their times together and waits to hear back from Pablo. Watch the film...I love the discussions between Pablo and Mario and the part next to the sea, where they discuss Metaphors, the part where Mario records all the things he loves about his hometown to send to Pablo.....

In real life, Massimo had been diagnosed with a fatal heart ailment and was suppose to undergo a heart surgery , which he he postponed to complete the film. Some of the shots in this film that required a bit of physical exertion had to be done by an extra. Massimo died the day after the film was complete.

After watching this film, i did google and read up pablo's poetry, its really simple and beuatiful ... something new i discovered..

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