马西莫·特洛伊

马里奥（马西莫?特罗西 Massimo Troisi 饰）是一个渔民的儿子，他并不喜欢大海，却当上了邮递员，专门负责小岛上信件的发送。 　　小岛上住着智利诗人聂鲁达（菲利浦?诺瓦雷 Philippe Noiret 饰）和他的妻子。聂鲁达被流放至此地，他擅长写诗，才华横溢。马里奥每天都收发很多聂鲁达的信件。在频繁的接触中，马里奥越发崇拜这个诗人，他热衷于跟聂鲁达讨论诗，学习诗。当爱上岛上的美丽姑娘后，马里奥经常跟聂鲁达倾诉心事，并最终用诗打动了姑娘的芳心，二人结成伉俪。 　　直到聂鲁达离开小岛，马里奥仍然坚持着对诗的热爱。他继续写诗，正打算在工人集会上读诗，却遭致了意想不到的灾难。

　　马里奥（马西莫•特罗西 Massimo Troisi 饰）是一个渔民的儿子，他并不喜欢大海，却当上了邮递员，专门负责小岛上信件的发送。　　小岛上住着智利诗人聂鲁达（菲利浦•诺瓦雷 Philippe Noiret 饰）和他的妻子。聂鲁达被流放至此地，他擅长写诗，才华横溢。马里奥每天都收发很多聂鲁达的信件。在频繁的接触中，马里奥越发崇拜这个诗人，他热衷于跟聂鲁达讨论诗，学习诗。当爱上岛上的美丽姑娘后，马里奥经常跟聂鲁达倾诉心事，并最终用诗打动了姑娘的芳心，二人结成伉俪。　　直到聂鲁达离开小岛，马里奥仍然坚持着对诗的热爱。他继续写诗，正打算在工人集会上读诗，却遭致了意想不到的灾难。

　　Totally unawares, Saverio, a teacher and Mario, a janitor of the same school in which they both work, travel back in time and find themselves in central Italy at the end of the 15th century. They carry with them an unresolved squabble concerning Saverio’s sister, creating a lot of tension between the two, which will increase in the plot. From this moment on they will have to come to grips with the grotesque situation they find themselves in, trying to "hitch a lift" back to the future in a most outlandish way, using and misusing their foresight of the events taking place round that time, and generally making fools of themselves in the eyes of "normal" renaissance folks. Their meeting with Leonardo da Vinci is hysterical, when they become more and more convinced that the genius is in reality a moron. Another character they meet is Savonarola the heretic, who enjoins them to repent, before he is taken to the stake, eliciting some breezy comment from them. If it weren’t for a weird kind of homesickness, they would quite enjoy living in this period, full of daring fashions and tantalising damsels.                                                                    　　The couple shows great chemistry and is funny in every respect. The psychology of their characters is complex and credible - for once comical roles with a depth. Basically, Saverio is an embittered petit-bourgeois forever attracted and rejected by women, envious of Mario, an easy-going proletarian every woman falls in love with. Saverio is scheming, mean and vindictive as much as Mario is naive, generous and forgiving. What a match of talents: Roberto Benigni and Massimo Troisi at the peak of combined creativity. Too bad they will never come back together for another joint venture. Or maybe it is better this way: masterpieces of this level cannot be improved on, at best they can be imitated. For this reason Non ci resta che piangere will shine like a gem in the crown of the best Italian movies of all times. Sadly not many people seem to have seen it, not even in Italy, where the viewers do not need subtitles to enjoy the hilarious juggling of the two actors with the language, but their body language can be universally appreciated.                                                                    　　If you miss it you will have to repent!