Review on cinema paradiso
...as they represent his past his present and his future. Alfredo (his past) who becomes his mentor and his father impacts Toto life at very early age. With Alfredo he learns everything about being a projectionist. He falls in love with the profession and becomes Alfredo’s substitute. But then he meets Elena (his present) Alfredo who has big plans for little Toto sees that Elena threatens his future success and finds a way of tricking her. Her ghost will fallow Salvatore to adulthood, as he becomes an international movie star. The frustration of what he thought to be not corresponded love results as the instability in his relationships as an adult. He was never able to forget her. And then his mother; who represents his future, as he sees old pictures of her he realizes that his mother was one beautiful but after his father died she never remarried because of her love for him. So in a way he sees himself reflected on her. The theater represents a lot of things because is the stage in which most of the most impor...