When Mario and Beatrice begin the game of foosball, Beatrice keeps scoring on him. Mario was fixated on her so much that he was not paying attention to the game at hand. Mario was very nervous around her and he spills his change on the floor while trying to pay for another game of foosball. When he looks up he sees that Beatrice has the foosball in her mouth. This part of the movie is one of the more dear parts of the film. The foosball is a continuing image metaphor throughout the film. Another image metaphor is the white piece of paper falling to the ground as the riot breaks out and Mario is killed. This symbolizes all of what Mario wanted in life, Beatrice, writing, poems, and most of all love.
While Mario and Neruda talk throughout the movie they exchange many conversational metaphors, many that are picked up quite easily and other that must be thought about first. One of these metaphors is when Mario and Neruda are talking and Mario describes Neruda's poetry as "the sea going back and forth." As Mario listened to Neruda's poetry he becomes transfixed on what his words mean. As though the words are rocking him back and forth, "a boat bouncing on his words." Mario explains to Neruda what poetry means to him, and what he thinks about it. Another example of a conversational metaphor is when Mario is bringing mail to Neruda, and Neruda reads to him a poem he had wrote. After he had completed reading the poem to Mario, he says "still as a post." He was referring to Mario, who was just standing there in awe. Mario describes himself as nail on a spear, immobile like the castle on a chessboard, and more sill that a porcelain cat. These words that Mario spoke were telling Neruda how he felt, something he had never felt before. Mario was amazed by Neruda's poem and wanted to learn how to write like that some day. .
Many times when writers write poems they use metaphors. The film uses metaphors as a way to show the true beauty of life and all that it involves.
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