The movie “Il Postino” exhibited the theme of love in many ways. A few of the many ways are: friendship love, romantic love, lust, love for ones country, and family love, just to name a few. The theme was, we don’t know what we got until they’re gone.’ Friendship love is in this movie, between Neruda and Mario. They become really good friends, but Narudo has some family problems and has to leave Mario. During that time apart, Mario never stopped thinking about the life he had working with Narudo with poetry. Neruda didn’t write Mario for a long time, and when he did it was very informal. He had his secretary write it for him. Then after a couple years went by Neruda learned of his friend’s death, and felt guilt and remorse because he didn’t do everything he could to reconnect with his old friend.
The movie also showed a theme or two relating to social class. The main one that I noticed was ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’. This theme is shown when Mario becomes a communist. Most of the people in this town were illiterate, so no one really knew what their leader was doing or saying when he made a law. When Mario became a communist, he realized what their leader was doing. He then let the other people know, and once everyone was aware of the situation, people began to think for themselves.
Another type of theme this movie showed was related to poetry. The theme, ‘never give up’ is what is displayed for this one. Mario was the son of a fisherman, and had no intention of carrying on that family job. When Mario met Neruda, he became fascinated with poetry, and wanted to learn how to write it. Well, he soon became Narudo’s personal mailman, and learn all the ways to write poetry. Although Mario never felt he could write poetry like Neruda, Neruda never let him give up, and always told him to keep writing. When Neruda had to go home, Mario lost his encouragement to keep writing, and soon stopped writing poetry.
This movie seemed, very interesting, sadly though, I missed most of it. From what I saw and read on it, it seems like a very inspirational movie. It tells about friends, that are separated after they became close, and one is a poet, and the other in an inspiring poet. One goes on to become famous, while the other drops poetry all together and starts to work at a restaurant. In the end one of them dies, and the other feels remorse and guilt because he never kept in contact with his friend, after he moved away. I would love to actually be able to sit down and watch the full movie. It seemed really good.
The movie also showed a theme or two relating to social class. The main one that I noticed was ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’. This theme is shown when Mario becomes a communist. Most of the people in this town were illiterate, so no one really knew what their leader was doing or saying when he made a law. When Mario became a communist, he realized what their leader was doing. He then let the other people know, and once everyone was aware of the situation, people began to think for themselves.
Another type of theme this movie showed was related to poetry. The theme, ‘never give up’ is what is displayed for this one. Mario was the son of a fisherman, and had no intention of carrying on that family job. When Mario met Neruda, he became fascinated with poetry, and wanted to learn how to write it. Well, he soon became Narudo’s personal mailman, and learn all the ways to write poetry. Although Mario never felt he could write poetry like Neruda, Neruda never let him give up, and always told him to keep writing. When Neruda had to go home, Mario lost his encouragement to keep writing, and soon stopped writing poetry.
This movie seemed, very interesting, sadly though, I missed most of it. From what I saw and read on it, it seems like a very inspirational movie. It tells about friends, that are separated after they became close, and one is a poet, and the other in an inspiring poet. One goes on to become famous, while the other drops poetry all together and starts to work at a restaurant. In the end one of them dies, and the other feels remorse and guilt because he never kept in contact with his friend, after he moved away. I would love to actually be able to sit down and watch the full movie. It seemed really good.
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