Christy Chandra Professor Sole Anatrone Italian Studies 170 Viewing Log – Nuovomondo (The Golden Door) Title: Nuovomondo (The Golden Door) (2007) Director: Emanuele Crialese Date: 21 October 2015 The Golden Door reminds me of neorealism movies like La Dolce Vita and Bicycle Thief. Even though the movie was invented and released decades after World War II (one essential element for neorealism genre), The Golden Door embraces the idea of telling struggles of the early Italian immigrants. Through hardships while sailing with a ship full of people with wishful thinking of getting a better source of labor and foods (most of them, particularly the main character, being hypnotized with a “false” hope that the New World (America) is a place that cultivates giant agricultural …show more content…
I’m still curious about the existence of Luce Reed as an English girl who became a passenger in the same ship with Salvatore alongside with his family. Moreover, I’m still curious about the status of Luce and Salvatore after they agreed to get married, despite being completely different (Luce is an educated English lady with a better sense to survive in the New World as compare to Salvatore, who came to the country with no knowledge of reading, not even speak English). Other than that, the ending was a little clear. I can see Luce an the Mancuso family, excluding the to-be-deported-grandma, swimming through the milk from a deeper level of water, and soon they emerged out of the pool of milk with the other immigrants, indicating their end of voyage, or at least, it suggests that they made through the immigration test, and expected to start a new life in the New World. The story, even with several ambiguities, at least served as a visual discourse that tells us the story behind their movement from the Old World to the New World, with no criminal intention, but to escape an unforgiving poverty and irrationality (Irrationality for example: The