The plot of this film Bologna at first glance is quite simple. Living quite a measured life of an official, the main character suddenly gets carried away by a young beauty who enjoys her age as a very tasty dessert. Everyone is looking at her, everyone is passionate about her. Plus or minus lover for her something transient, because while “the signal of love”, she just does not want to think about anything.
Another thing is the main character. For him, this feeling is heavy and real. He loves and does not love in order to love even more, knows and understands everything, but immediately does not want to know and closes his eyes to the obvious. It would seem, why suffer so much from the behavior of such a frivolous person? This is where the main idea of the film comes in.
Its name is strange, because the hero is only 35 years old, for a man this age is absolutely strong, associated with prosperity and popularity. How to combine with these years aging, decrepit, dying? It's simple. The story of the windy girl is the first call of irreversibility, the inability to change anything in the sense that nothing can be turned the other way, and that love is absolutely impossible to destroy in yourself. Fear settled in the hero, the feeling that will now always be with everyone else, the feeling that even earlier appeared in his sister, who also has her own love, and which brought her to a very sad ending.
Depicting the first chord of aging, Bolognini does not go beyond the framework of a strong psychological film, but no more is needed. Any more than intentional symbolization and increased signification could only harm. As a result, the output turned out to be a very transparent in meaning and very accurate in conclusions film about how the shadow of decay first settles in a person, to which there is still to go and go, but the first step has already been taken and it cannot be canceled.