The Best Offer

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= An Analysis of the movie 'The Best Offer(La migliore offerta)'=

' The Best offer (La migliore offerta)' is a 2013 Italian English romantic-thriller-mystery film written and directed by the famous Italian director, Giuseppe Tornatore. The film stars Geoffrey Rush and Sylvia Hoeks and the music is composed by the most famous musician and composer Ennio Morricone.

The film is all about love and deceit in the world of ultra high-end art auctions and antiques. The Protagonist Virgil Oldman is an aging, wealthy, and esteemed, but somewhat standoffish and eccentric, managing director of a preeminent auction house. Oldman is hired by a mysterious young heiress, Claire Ibbetson to auction off the large collection of art and antiques left to her by her parents. Claire always refuses to be seen in person, suffering from severe Agoraphobia and never leaving her room. Soon enough Virgil, a life-long bachelor who is able to relate to her reclusiveness, understands that he has fallen in love with her.

Slowly Oldman progresses in the love with Claire and gets succeeded in curing her Agoraphobia. The story come into a climax when Oldman brings Claire home and shows his immense, life long, secret collection of valuable paintings. When Oldman returned from London after his last and finest Auction of his career he understands that the Claire and his friend-Robert stole all his secret painting collection leaving behind an automaton constructed from the mechanical parts Virgil gave to Robert, which plays a message from Robert saying there is something real in every forgery and that is why Robert will truly miss Virgil.

The whole movie can be analyzed in three different ways: one is by considering the whole story as a fairy tale about a a prince and a princess. The second way is about a crime story in which a group of people commits a crime leaving behind a victim, that is Virgil Oldman. But the third is the most complex and interesting analysis of the movie. In this analysis the movie can be viewed as the comparison of the world of art and science. According to Plato, Art can never truly represent reality, for life itself, of which art is merely a copy, does not represent reality. This Platonic concept of art agrees the forgery and deception in the world of art and literature. And the Protagonist Oldman symbolizes the whole world of art and he himself gets deceived by the art. On the other hand, Science stands for the universal truth and the pure reality. Science will never symbolize the world of forgery and unreality. In the movie the dwarf girl sitting in the restaurant symbolizes the world of Science. So we can conclude the analysis by saying that the movie is a elegant discussion and comparison between the art and the science.

The academy winning director of "Nuovo Cinema Paradiso", Giuseppe Tornatore once again proved that he is one of the greatest directors of 21st century through his interesting and unique way of filmography. The haunting music composed by Ennio Morricone gave the enchanting beauty to the movie.