剧情介绍
An immigrant Nevada rancher brings a woman from Italy to be his second wife but when he neglects her, she becomes involved with his trusted assistant. Nominated for 3 Academy Awards including Best Actor.
Italian immigrant Gino Micelli and his wife Rosanna started with virtually nothing, which Gino has now built up into a successful northern Nevada sheep farming operation with his brother Alberto, Alberto's wife Teresa, and their longtime hand, Bene. Gino hired Bene when he was just a boy and treats him like a son - planning on giving him the entire operation when the time comes - Bene being his true son which he has long planned as he has always seen Bene marrying his now twenty-one year old daughter, Angie, although neither Bene or Angie has ever said anything to Gino about it or has ever needed to say anything to the other in it never coming to pass in not feeling that way about the other. As Rosanna has long passed, and as Angie is away at school in Boston, Gino has made the decision to marry Rosanna's sister Gioia in Italy without the two even having met beforehand, she who will move to Nevada to live on the farm. Although Gino and Gioia both want the marriage to work, obstacles ...
虽然主要人物是意大利人，但这不意味着他们必须得是随时发作的神经病吧……
每日忍受着比量和拒绝的家族生活未使她成为温驯的羊羔，守着初来乍到般野马的烈性，second best不是她所甘愿。这个不快、渴望另个男人另种生活的女人，在Anna Magnani强大的情节剧表演下自如挥洒着爱憎，“你对生活的‘规划’扼紧了我的喉咙!”可惜了结尾的“挽回”仍是男性作者的诉求