巴阿里亚（Barria）是西西里岛巴勒莫省最大的城市巴格里亚（Bagheria）在西西里方言中的叫法，本片通过当地一家三代人自上世纪三十年代开始自六十年代为止的种种生活变迁，展示了意大利在两次世界大战期间以及其后所经历过的重大历史变革，在影片中人们可以看到当时意大利所发生的种种政治变动，从法西斯到共产党，从基督教民主党到社会主义，各种政治风潮在意大利国内交替上演，并影响着一代又一代意大利普通人的生活。by William RuhlmannVenerated score composer Ennio Morricone is past 80 and semi-retired, but he returns to work for the first time in five years for Giuseppe Tornatore's autobiographical epic Baarìa, having written the music for all of the director's previous films, including the celebrated Cinema Paradiso. Appropriately for a soundtrack album that bears a photograph of the composer on the cover, the music is stamped with Morricone's signature style, melodic and lushly romantic. The stately opening theme, Sinfonia per Baarìa, is an 11-minute work with the voices of the characters woven in among its contrasting motives. Morricone can be stirring (Ribellione) and playful (Un Gioco Sereno) in this varied score for a film covering 70 years in the lives of its characters. But his identity as a composer is rarely in doubt, and if this score does not sum up his style, it is a representative rendering of it.