Maléna is one kind of film. Throughout the movie one's emotion will grow so deeply that they start empathizing the main character Malena. The movie shows wide percpectives by all the ways a society could bring down a person because of their standards, insecurities and foulmouth. One can interpret this movie and draw the likelihood with modest society.
A married women can't live alone.
They say a lady is enough to start a war, but in the movie even though Maléna was villified by women in the town, they are fighting over their men. Because of their dependence on men.
It also shows how Renato grows from a pervert to respect and admire her for her courage.
It doesn't matter how beautiful or ugly one are, what matters is how ugly and beautiful ones view towards a person.