Cinema Paradiso

This film is a very classic and golden film. The content of this movie tells the story of friendship and love. The flow of the movie is truly amazing and beautiful. It goes smoothly and every scene is just beautiful and touched.  

Salvatore Di Vita is the main character in the whole movie. His nicknamed Toto being called throughout this movie. One day, Toto's mother called to inform the news of passing of Alfredo in his hometown. When he heard this news, he laid on the bed and flashed back his life in his hometown, Giancaldo. Toto began to recall his old memories with Alfredo, which is his best friend since he was young. He is a film lover and he spent most of his pleasure time in Cinema. He had developed a friendship with Alfredo and he wanted to learn how to work with the machine but Alfredo initially did not want to teach him. During exam time, Alfredo took the same paper as Toto did. They exchanged the idea whereby Toto gave tips to Alfredo and Alfredo have to teach Toto how to run the machine. After Alfredo goes blind in a fire, Toto became the projectionist in the town. The stage theory of Erikson (1950) has been showed through the Toto's characteristic. Toto showed his 'industry' in learning to derive pleasure and satisfaction from the completion of tasks. Toto learned to solve his question in using the machine and he took the price of accomplishment. 

As Toto grew up, he studied in University and he fell in love with Elena. They got into  a romantic and intimate relationship as stated by Erickson (1950) but sadly their relationship did not last long as Elena's father did not approve their relationship. Toto went to the military service, throughout his military service Alfredo did not want to talk with anyone. After he has finished military service, Alfredo told him to leave and never come back to the town. Later, Toto became a famous film-maker. 

Toto attended Alfredo's funeral. He was in 'ego integrity' stage (Erickson, 1950) as he derived his wisdom from his life experiences and look back his life when he was with Alfredo. He watched the film strip that has been keeping by Alfredo long time ago. Later he only knew it was a gift from Alfredo. The short film gave by Alfredo contained all the romantic scenes which have been cut from the movies he watched in his childhood.

The secure attachment (Ainsworth, 1970) can be observed through the relationship between Toto and Alfredo. Alfredo had played the roles as a father and a friend toward Toto as the real father-son relationship was absence in Toto's life. Alfredo played a very important character in Toto's life as he had developed the confidence, courage, and passion in Toto. He helped and advised Toto when Toto was in frustration. Without Alfredo, Toto would not be a famous film-maker.