Cinema Paradiso

The friendship in between Toto and Alfredo, despite how naughty as Toto as seen in the movie his friendship with Alfredo makes him save Alfredo from dying in the fire even he is blind after the incident and Toto continue working because he is the only boy that knows how the projector works in the village and he brings Alfredo to work too even he is blind because he wants to shared with him the interest that they have been sharing now and then. The impact they have on each other lives is what sparks the movie.

How Alfredo change by Toto, the presence of a boy that brings meaning to his life and to have someone that appreciate and admired his work which motivate not only his work but his life to move on even he was blind. He trusted Toto to be near him whenever he needs and their friendship that lasts beyond that even he is unable to work as a projectionist anymore. I think this portrayed pretty much on love as an emotion to impact audience, the love for film that shared between Alfredo and Toto, the love of movies shown in cinema paradiso that brings people together and because love elements this is why Toto will meet Alfredo and love in between Toto and Elena which sparks teenage love.

The curiosity of the Toto as 9 years old boy by exposing to age inappropriate could actually be seen in the movie he actually tried to asked Alfredo for the cut scenes and to understand why the it isnt allowed to be in the film.
Affect the culture even in public when explicit scenes are shown to be public so we can see that there couple making love or kissed in public.
When one and only entertainment exist in a village it does affect the culture and the thinking of people in a same area and so it does to Toto. I think it does shown certain conformity level of the people to the culture of the village and that spread pretty fast just after the cinema has different owner.

And the most touching part is when Alfredo realized Toto's future cannot be just in that room he needs to get out that fulfill his dream and he believed talents that Toto have could brings him success so he chase Toto away and warned not to come back until he is successful in his dream. It is obvious that he couldnt let go of him, that his only friend in his life time to leave him but there's nothing more important than Toto's dream. I think this is where their friendship has becoming more like father and son relationship and that bond is very strong since Alfredo do not have any children and maybe he treated Toto as his son already. But very disappointing is that at last Toto could not meet Alfredo before he past away and most importantly their strong friendships shown when Alfredo actually did kept the films that Toto and make it a movie when Toto has the chance to watch it, not the content but the promise between them which i think the script is really good in making this movie have an impact in audience's memories.

When Alfredo and Toto working together in moving the scene to building out there when they have the knowledge that that is the only happiness their people looking for in their nights. How people works as a community and as whole in bringing people together and how beautiful in a small community where people have nothing much complicated in life to grows hatred in each other as how we can see in our community today, technology and civilization advances but people are getting colder to humanity. How a simple life could brought harmony in people and that is what we all forgot about in living with each other.