Using the left-center-right model, briefly explain how the film Cinema Paradiso uses ideology to tell its story

What will be an ideal response?

Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. This movie is told in flashbacks, from the point of view of a successful middle-aged film director who recalls his childhood and adolescence in a Sicilian village.
2. The flashback strategy provides an ironic double perspective, contrasting Then (a value of the right) with Now (a value of the left).
3. As an assistant movie theater projectionist, the child’s life as a result is emotionally rich and communal, for the theater is the social center for the townspeople (values of the left)
4. But life in this village is class-bound and provincial (conservative values of the right), and his mentor advises the youth to leave if he wishes to have a better life.
5. The filmmaker’s present-day lifestyle in Rome is artistically satisfying and financially secure, but perhaps a bit lonely, notwithstanding the succession of pretty women who have shared his bed.
6. The movie is thus ideologically centrist. Giuseppe Tornatore, the director, is saying that we need to strike a balance between values of the left and right, between the past and the present, emotion and thought, nurturance and independence.