The first love is the love that comes before all concepts of the body and morals. Directed by Claudio Guerin, “House of Pigeons,” the more accurate title is “The Only Big Love.”
A film about first love, against the background of ordinary, /cold-blooded /, calculation and the same ordinary, /cold-blooded / revenge.
Claudio Guerin is a Spanish director. During his short life, he shot only 5 films, /died on the set of his last film at the age of 34, fell from the bell tower /.
Schoolgirl Sandra, Ornella Muti, lives with her mother Alexandra, Lucia Bose. School, friends, girl secrets, girl dreams, ordinary life. But once the measured course of her life is violated by Fernando, the former lover of her mother. With Sandra’s mother, Fernando may have what happened, but only she found out that he lived, / was on maintenance / with an elderly woman, / who is fit for him as a mother /. Having received a turn from the gate, Fernando takes revenge. As a weapon of revenge, he uses an unsuspecting person, a minor. Sandra. And Sandra, age, hormones, romantic dreams, is in love.
You can ask why I mentioned the concepts of body and morality, and I can tell you that Sandra is not yet an adult, but she is not a child, she understands that Fernando cared for her mother, but she does not care, she cares about another, her own. Her happiness, which she does not mind building on the misfortune of her mother. That's it. But it's not that simple.
If you ask what the pigeons have to do with it, I will also answer, Fernando brings Sandra to the house with pigeons, the house where pigeons fly freely, the house of the very old woman on whose maintenance he lived before.
This is the romance, this is the love triangle. Their love relationship unfolds under the gaze of pigeons who do not understand anything about it.
It is always difficult to talk about love, especially about the first one, and not even because someone has not commented on this topic, but rather because this topic has passed on its own skin. No one taught you the mind, well, only life a couple of painful bumps stuffed.
Or still taught, (how many times my mother tried to talk to you) that after years you realize how stupid he was, and then. It wasn’t until then that there was a lot of love.
First love is rarely the only, first and last. And after trying your first love, you will no longer be as naive and gullible as a wound. But you will never be as happy as the wound.
You will learn something important and necessary from this lesson. Love is important, it is necessary, it is part of the meaning of life. Love is not the romance that you invented for yourself, it is more difficult everyday life, it is constant self-restraint, self-denial and sacrifice. It's life. There’s more bad in her than good, but that doesn’t mean she’s bad. She is who she is. Yours. And your happiness is only possible in her. And your happiness will not be easy.
Something will need to be forgiven, /forgive /, something not to notice, something to cut off, something to forget forever. And live.
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And do not blame pigeons for their troubles, pigeons are not guilty of anything.