Under The Tuscan Sun

I watched again the movie Under The Tuscan Sun. Though I’ve seen it couple of times it still excites me to see every scenes. Aside from it was shot in a breathtaking scenery of Tuscany—a place in Italy which probably my friends will teased, “I see..That’s why you like it.” The story itself is truly inspiring. It’s not the typical heavy drama that makes us cry but it is a very heart-warming romantic comedy that makes me realized that not all we wished for may come the way we wanted—it always comes in surprise.

Frances is a writer in San Francisco who after a heart-wrenching divorce, her friends gave her a gay tour to a romantic place Tuscany—she is straight though. On her tour she saw a 300 year old villa (Bramisole) and decided to buy it. With the help of warmhearted, smitten Italian real estate agent who turned out to be her good friend and local contractor with a team of Polish contractor. Fully embracing new friends she finds herself immersed in a life-changing adventure filled with enough unexpected surprises, laughter, friendship, and romance to restore her new home -- and her belief in second chances. One scene with Signore Martini (Real Estate Agent) that I liked was when Frances started to open up her sentiments about her divorce.

Frances said: “You know what is the most surprising thing about divorce is? It doesn’t actually kill you. Like a bullet to the heart or car wreck—it should when someone you’ve promised to cherish ‘til death do you part says I never loved you should kill you instantly. You shouldn’t have to wake up day after day or something like that trying to understand how in the world he didn’t know that the light just didn’t went on. He must have known of course but I was just scared to see the truth and fears makes you so stupid. Love is blind—I don’t want to be blind anymore. I am sick of being afraid all the time and I still want things.”

Signore Martini Replied: “In Italy there is a section of the alps. It is stiff and very high part of the mountain. They built a train track over this alps to connect Vienna and Venice. They built this tracks even before there was a train in existence that could make a trip. They built because they knew someday a train would come. Signora please don’t be so sad. If you’ll continue like this I’ll be forced to make love to you and I never been unfaithful to my wife.”

This was one of the best thing a man could say. Eventhough Signore Martini isn’t as young and good looking hunk, I fell for him in this instant. His character here is truly affectionate guy and the way he speaks reminds me of someone. (Nope! not the one you guys could ever think of!) There’s one thing I remember said, “Italians are known to be flirts.” (Maybe not all)

The movie is very realistic and it even showed there flimsy side that Italians aren’t really good in English (I can relate with this). Along the way she met another single good looking Italian named Marcelo which is Marchelo in Italian way. There are some dialogues spoken in Italian which surprisingly I understood very well. (I should—I have tried learning to speak and write Italian long time ago.)

The next meeting with Marcelo, her friend back home suddenly arrived that stopped her from leaving. Marcelo went to Bramisole but wasn’t able to see her. When she decided to finally make a way, she found out that Marcelo is already seeing another girl which hurt her.

The best thing I just like about this movie is it was shown that there’s always after the tough times. The film is an affirmation that good things can happen if one lets them—and that sometimes what seems like a terrible mistake or a crazy idea is a really blessing. Next time I’ll try to share my favorite mistake I’ve ever done—my own version of Under The Tuscan Sun.

Life offers you a thousand chances ... all you have to do is take one.

Ciao!