The Postman 1994 123movies

Watch: Il postino 1994 123movies, Full Movie Online – Pablo Neruda, the famous Chilean poet, is exiled to a small island for political reasons. On the island, the unemployed son of a poor fisherman is hired as an extra postman due to the huge increase in mail that this causes. Il Postino is to hand-deliver the celebrity’s mail to him. Though poorly educated, the postman learns to love poetry and eventually befriends Neruda. Struggling to grow and express himself more fully, he suddenly falls in love and needs Neruda’s help and guidance more than ever..
Plot: Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
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Ratings:

	7.7/10 Votes: 36,765
	94% | RottenTomatoes
	81/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 981 Popularity: 11.763 | TMDB

Reviews:

A Love Story Between Men
‘Il Postino’ is a love story between men. There’s something poetic about that, in this movie about love & poetry. Neither of them is gay, mind you. In fact, a ravishing beauty (Maria Grazia Cucinotta) is the object of the title character’s affection. Still, this movie belongs to Philippe Noiret and the Oscar-nominated Massimo Troisi. Noiret is a Chilean poet, exiled in Italy for his communist leanings. Troisi is the postman, a man going nowhere who comes to idolize this intelligent poet. They become friends and Noiret essentially Cyranos Troisi into Cucinotta’s ample heart.

I didn’t find the entire film to be heart-rending, but the final scenes add deep resonance to the material. My eyebrows were raised when the movie ended and there was a “For Massimo” credit. Troisi died less than a day after they finished shooting. It seems fitting that the end of the film is bittersweet because the cast & crew had been working with a dying man who wanted nothing more than to finish this final project. ‘Il Postino’ ended up grossing a boatload of money, so his subtle performance clearly struck a chord with audiences.

Troisi got all the press for his fine work, but Noiret is certainly his equal. Director Michael Radford does well to stay out of their way. I like how he didn’t sentimentalize the Troisi/Cucinotta relationship. He’s infatuated with her, but that diminishes a bit once he gets her. They’re a fair representation of a real couple who were brought together for what might have been the wrong reasons. In fact, the film is filled with surprises. It’s a quiet character study, but all the players in ‘Il Postino’ go through earth-shaking changes of personal proportions. And the Noiret/Troisi friendship is right at the heart of the matter.

Poetica Paradisio…
Michael Radford’s “The Postman” follows the sweet and engaging friendship between a seemingly dim-witted postman named Mario Ruoppolo (Massimo Troisi) and the famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda in an Italian island near Sicily. I could call the friendship unlikely but what would have been unlikely was for Neruda to dismiss a man like Mario, why would a man who’s been exiled from his homeland reject a man himself? Rejection is the ugly fruit of judgment and judgment is a perversion of rationality, which is itself estranged from poetry.

Because poetry isn’t an exercise of intellect but the expression of a rare ability to see the secrets of life through the many images it provides us. We admire beaches and their angry waves, w contemplate stars in their solemn stillness, we feel the caresses of breezes on our necks, we taste wine with the same delight that we touch the beloved one’s delicate skin, and yet when it comes to express feelings as deep as love and passion, to materialize them into words, most of us are left powerless. But a poet is someone capable to transcend these very barriers of communication, using among many tools, metaphors, though for the cynical minds, they’d be called tricks… and Neruda a manipulative expert rather than a poet.

The film is set in the early 1950s, a post-war climate where the Communist views still prevailed in Italy, but rather tactfully, the film never associates the artist’s talent with his political views, but with his growing friendship with a man who seems incapable to formulate clear thoughts when we meet him. Mario’s relationship with his father and his new boss are made of a lot of respect but a few words, in fact, Mario’s gestures precede the words, it’s like speaking is a torture to him, making his friendship with an eloquent literate man more fascinating. Troisi is intriguing first but this is one of these performances where the speech pattern speaks deep truths about the character, like Karl in “Sling Blade” or Rocky Balboa. Troisi was suffering of a heart condition and waited for an operation when he made the film, he died shortly after, and sadly, maybe his condition affected his performance.

Still this made his performance even more affecting, as a man suffering inside, condemned to passiveness, incapable to act beyond his own intellectual skills, and the role even more tragic in its authentic vulnerability, from Mario’s struggle to obtain one cordial exchange of words with the poet, to his despair when he tries to seduce the beautiful Beatrice Russo (Maria Grazia Cucinotta), the woman he fell in love, and also his lack of eloquence when he confronts the liberal big shots who harangue the crowds with big promises. Mario is a man with a political conscience, reinforced by the presence of Pablo Neruda and can’t handle the way lies can blind conscience. He count on Neruda’s presence to enlighten people the way it enlightened him, in fact, everything in Neruda gives him power to overcome his limitations, Mario both uses and benefits from poetry.

But all the good things come to an end and when Neruda gets back to Chile, something is clearly missing in Mario’s life. He lost the one man who could understand him. And so the idea in “The Postman” might be that some things are bound to be misunderstood or create misunderstandings between people, poetry or politics are part of opposite poles of the same spectrum, one uses beautiful words to express ideas but too beautiful to inspire trust, another use more accessible words to better reach people, both poetry and politics can reach one heart, but when it comes to the masses, it’s a lost game. A central character is Beatrice’s aunt (Linda Moretti) who sees in Mario’s poems an attempt to get her niece on bed, what starts with words ends with hands but then later she trusts the new mayor and get into financial trouble for that.

Politics are like the antithesis of poetry and maybe Mario and Pablo became friends because they developed a true political conscience through poetry, a sense of justice and truth less dictated by the books of Marx or the theories of Lenin, but the beauty and harmony that reigns in nature. When Mario is caught plagiarizing his master, he claims that poetry should be used by the one who needs it, Neruda finds his view rather democratic, he might not share it but he respects it. And that’s the charm of the friendship between these two men, the two remain secrets one for another, and for the viewer and yet their friendship is a platter on which are displayed touching aspects of humanity: soul generosity, love, passion, curiosity.

The story starts with Mario delivering messages to Neruda, all from female admirers, and at the end, it’s Mario who delivers the most important message about life to his own ‘master’. Troisi was magnificent in his posthumously Oscar-nominated performance but Noiret deserves praises as the gentle soul who could see beneath his rough and banal surface, a soul set on fire and passion. He’s all approbation and helpfulness and only at the end, we see how far from the confident successful man he was. Maybe it takes sad eyes to be poet, joyful eyes are too busy to see the real world, and it’s only at the end that the poet realizes how much he’s learned from his friendship. Noiret is such a compelling actor, a man of towering presence and droopy eyes, a body that speaks authority but eyes that are all gentleness, a man we want to follow until we might realize he’s been following us, like his Alfredo in “Cinema Paradisio”.

And the world is such a “paradisio” with so many images to offer, a poet can die old or young, it doesn’t matter, some might not even have enough of a life to become poets.

Other Information:

Original Language it
Runtime 1 hr 48 min (108 min), 1 hr 54 min (114 min) (Blu-ray)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Biography, Comedy, Drama
Director Michael Radford, Massimo Troisi
Writer Antonio Skármeta, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli
Actors Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucinotta
Country Italy, France, Belgium
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 32 wins & 20 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Cinecittà Laboratories, Roma, Italy
Film Length 2,968 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 16 mm, Digital (Digital Cinema Package DCP), 35 mm