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make the revolution... precarious work, zero pension, a psychopathic dwarf dictator, a colluding guard dog, convicted parliamentarians, healthcare that strikes worse than viruses, garbage in the streets, banking crooks, illegal wars... so? what’s missing to make a revolution? the revolution doesn’t happen, because the alternative you represent, even if the Italian Marxist-Leninist party were to overtake you on the right, wouldn’t really be an alternative. the world is gone, it's on a track and if you change the engineer, whether it's Prodi, Berlusconi, de Gaulle, or Marshal Tito, the destination and trajectory don’t change. the revolution... is a thought too naive.

Noam Chomsky, not exactly a newcomer... “A Harvard sociologist discovered in the 1970s a 50% decline in every form of social interaction: visiting a neighbor, attending parent-teacher association meetings, playing bowling together, etc. If children watch so much TV, it's because parent-child relationships have decreased by 40%, also due to the nature and timing of work and living. TV is used as a babysitter. But it is the soul of marketing culture that seeks this isolation. They don’t try to give you power. They don’t teach you how to join an association. They don’t encourage you to educate yourself, to improve, to evolve. They obsessively instill in your mind messages meant to destroy your mind and isolate you from others.”

Certainly, it's just as you say 47. Consumption has degraded man even worse than totalitarian regimes. Everyone is fleeing from them only to find David Hasselhoff singing Happy New Year under the Brandenburg Gate... What really pisses me off isn't so much the average person, the everyman, but the intellectuals. In Italy, there’s no one capable of being indignant, of raising their voice, of saying something out of line... In short, there isn’t a single good-looking and intelligent person half as decent as Pasolini or Carmelo Bene who could engage and call the audience of Maurizio Costanzo zombies. I think this is also a sign of the times, just as the Moratti reform removed Darwin from the school curriculum for two years because it wasn’t aligned with Italian culture.

here blue, you are even too optimistic... I’m not telling you to go to the club to gauge the neurons of young achievers... go to high schools, go to universities. we are in deep shit, that’s all. we are many, I say this as a young person, but I am not my peers (I’m timeless), ignorant, superficial, reactionary, materialist bourgeois, well-meaning moralists, disgraceful. we are exactly what Pasolini said we would become (I recommend reading Gennariello, a small sociological treatise on the education of a Neapolitan child written as an editorial in Corriere della Sera in 1975) and paraphrasing him I say... consumption has succeeded in what the fascist regime failed to do... if you look closely there is no solution, there is no crossroads. we are on a train with a well-marked track. no one opposes it and no one is even outraged.

"Right now, without a 'historiographical' perspective, they don’t sound as fresh to me anymore"... sorry, why shouldn’t you put a historiographical framework around a work? Imagine what happens if you remove such a framework, in most cases, for the majority of art... try removing it, I don’t know, from Boccaccio: you would keep repeating yourself endlessly about how he writes here... or take it away from the Beach Boys and you’d be outraged by these clones of Black people by chance. I mean, the historical framework is essential for the respect one must show towards certain things, but that doesn’t change the fact that if Warehouse were to be released tomorrow, you could throw away most of the albums from 2007 (including Radiohead and all that jazz).

The review isn't bad, I haven't seen the film, but what is certain is that it fully reflects this fucked-up generation (usually all the crappy movies or books by Moccia)... which are mostly pages filled with stereotypes and advertisements for products used by young people... or rather, by zombies. This film, this product, is made for zombies by a zombie, and the fact that three girls from my university sitting on a bench next to me were discussing quite passionately about which was the best film adapted from Moccia's crap is proof of that. I wonder why you're surprised? Ninety percent of people are nothing but zombies, automatons ready to obey any bullshit, and they consume things that are bullshit... shiny new phones, cars, Nikes, and when they read or watch a movie or listen to music, they choose the crap... if someone is crap, they choose crap. It seems obvious to me. STOP

neither shit nor caviar... what’s certain is that if you’re not an ex-con in Naples, you don't clean the toilets... I don’t know what the relationship is, but that’s how it is!

beautiful... I’ll add to your review the words of Wayne Coyne from the Flaming Lips (another crazy one) taken from the ACID booklet... <<And then he played a track by Husker Du (who I always thought of as "just another hardcore band") doing a cover version of The Byrds "EIGHT MILES HIGH" -and it was- ....FUCK!!!!... it was searing...it was religious...it was forceful...it was a forceful-searing-religious spasm of melody and energy so out of control that the music is overwhelming even those who are playing it..and they let it...>> it goes on, but the tune is the same... everything is beautiful, anyway.

Well... but can you compare it to the chance of seeing the Huskers live? Then there are those positives that bring amazing albums... like that of the dinosaur... OMG how repetitive I am :)

not a bad film; I mean, it didn't fully impress me, but that's just me—whenever I see fantasy, I get a bit queasy... the review, on the other hand, is crap, really half-assed... it's too violent... and no kidding: the historical context is Francoism, which, despite being blessed by the church, remains a thorn in the side of civil living for people as a totalitarian regime. 1 to the review because it can't get any worse.