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Jul 30, 2020 - 5:19 PM
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amatalqa
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This is a great discussion and all points are valid. There’s a great theme in Pablo Coehlo’s book The Alchemist which essentially addresses what Alfredo did in the expanded cut. In the book, a wise man tells the shepherd boy about embarking on his journey: if you don’t go for your destiny, your greater calling, your “journey” and stay behind for the girl, you may get married and be in love and the first year you won’t think twice about your calling. The second year you will also be happy, but you’ll wonder a little, what if... and the third year, you will start to feel a sense of regret, why didn’t you pursue the itch that was calling deep in your soul. And the fourth and fifth years... you will start to harbor resentment for not pursuing your life’s greater calling.
Essentially, that is why the longer cut has more depth. It is on the one hand slower and less satisfying because it loses momentum in the final act, but at the same time, it digs deeper and fulfills the parable in a more complete way.
As for Toto’s “bitterness” as an adult... I don’t think it’s bitter at all, but rather it is the unfulfilled love, which is exactly what made him the respected filmmaker/artist he became in Rome. Because you can’t have both. To pursue the passion, there is a driving force that comes from loss. That’s the poetry in the longer cut. While it’s less enjoyable as a viewing experience, the weight it leaves you with is more significant afterwards.
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Jul 31, 2020 - 11:55 AM
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Howard L
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KeV m'lad, ever parented, taught, coached, MENTORED a kid and watched him hit a high note down the road? 
The magnificent ending of CP had something of an antecedent, of sorts, in the classic Sullivan's Travels. The "director" in that one finally comes to peace with his life's calling, too, and the closing shots are unforgettable. Another magnificent ending, all right, the kind that sticks with you.
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Aug 12, 2020 - 10:30 AM
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bookbutter
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And if memory serves, the celebrated ending was not diminished in the longer version in the sense that Toto ends up embittered and unfulfilled by the choice to marry filmmaking. On the contrary, for all his frustrations in the area of love and romance, what he saw affirmed his life's course. You see that in his face.
But I will take the challenge and re-see both to confirm all this.
Yes, the kisses made Toto happy and nostalgic and this is evident, but in a whole the Director's Cut makes it clear that his lost love made him an unhappy and bitter man, incapable of any true connections on an emotional level.
I lived something very similar in my life (even meeting her again in old ages) and, yes, when one true love is broken you kinda feel numbed for the rest of your life in this department. The movie captures this perfectly in the original version and it is very bitter.
Could not agree more...the US version to me, is a much more realistic version of real life. Sometimes people disappear and you never know what happened to them. And sometimes...that is OK.
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