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Well done review, but I still have doubts about whether the Captain is right. Probably the most beautiful film inspired, in some way, by "I Am Legend" is "28 Days Later." (The authors, by the way, claim they were inspired by "The Day of the Triffids," which I have never read; I know it was published in "Urania," but I don't think it's easily accessible nowadays... thanks if someone can give me some guidance).

It's not enough for you to have the appointment; you must also strike hard...

Inevitably...

P.S.: shit, I went to check, you did it. Fuck you!

Ostia. And sacrament. I spent the weekend wondering whether to go see it or not. From what I understand, events did well to overwhelm me, as usual. P.S.: Let no one dare to make him a human case, that final question mark is too cheesy, let him suffer the right amount, because then one of his vital purposes would also fall short.

Here you go, good job Isi. Our Fusillone can be a bit long-winded. I'll read it again tomorrow leisurely. P.S.: but, do you like the Madreddiddio and not Nicolino Caverna?

What can I say... always essential, with the right references and coordinates. Just a bit exaggerated, as always, but your exaggerations are welcome. P.S.: but are you as cute as you are good at reviews? (Just kidding, you know I could be your dad).

And so let's return to my starting post: at least they should avoid pulling the wool over our eyes. Bertinotti wandering around with Saviano, patting him on the back and saying "poor guaglio'." Veltroni complaining about the lack of solidarity from other Italians. Prodi and Pecoraro Scanio and the usual merry band, passing the buck with the complicity of all, I mean all, the television journalists. Do we know this? Yes, we know it, but in my humble opinion, it can never be said enough.

Insulting them was tragicomic, in the sense that unfortunately I see it as a demonstration of our powerlessness; we have nothing else left. It only comforts me to think that You feel the same way. And that Your hypothesis about calling in the army is the only realistic (Marxist?) approach that can be imagined. The ridiculous thing is that if you start talking about the army, there would be a flood of left-wing idiots calling us crazy (the aforementioned Pecoraro, for example). Unfortunately, practice is utopia, beyond the political problem. An uplifting little story, which I don't know if they tell in your parts, but has been passed down to us kids by our grandparents, is the so-called "Strafe expedition," the punitive expedition of the Austrians in 1916 in our area. They had forms of roundups such that not even a needle could pass through. Now, when I see police cars being targeted with anything thrown at them, resulting in certain neighborhoods in Naples being off-limits to the state, I feel nauseous. Because, you see, it would be enough to send in a bit of the army, the trained one, not the four recruits they sent to deal with the Sicilian Vespers who, poor things, were terrified at every checkpoint, and the problem would be partly resolved. And then, being labeled as fascists for all of this fits into the logic of things. That is, the problem is not meant to be solved. Well, so it is.

Alessio, if, and I have no reason to doubt it, the piece came back to you because they claimed it was liable to some lawsuit or whatever, that’s even sadder. In fact, since you're not really naming anyone in the piece, I don’t see who the hell could denounce you. What sends chills down my spine, I reiterate, paradoxically, is precisely this. Not the existence of the Camorra, its power, its supremacy over the state. But that the media and politicians talk about something else. That they complain, the former, that a couple of cameramen have been assaulted and that the "poor people" "suffer" and children aren’t going to school. That there is no solidarity among the regions (Veltroni) and that it’s Bassolino’s fault (Berlusconi), the latter. In other words, that they are also taking us for a ride. I don’t fully agree with Mien, who, being from Catania, knows these things better than I do, when he asserts that only a lobotomized idiot from TV could think the Camorra isn’t involved. Unfortunately, due to partly cultural and partly social reasons, this is the state of affairs. And we can't brush the issue aside by saying that most Italians are lobotomized. The information is not only in the hands of those we know, but the freedom of those who create it, I’m talking about intellectual freedom, is equal to that of a hamster in its cage. These scoundrels should take a long hard look at themselves, if they still have a conscience. The same goes for these politicians. Just to name one, since I don’t know local politicians, a Pecoraro Scanio, who spends his life making useless statements and does nothing to solve a well-known issue, I don’t know how he can look at himself in the mirror in the morning after having been the Minister of the Environment for centuries. Just as an example, this summer I drove in Sicily: how the hell does one (Berlusconi) want to spend hundreds of millions of euros on the Bridge over the Strait when the Salerno/Reggio is a disaster? When the Catania Gela has been on the table for thirty years and they haven’t done a damn thing? BUT THEN YOU’RE TAKING ME FOR A FOOL. I finish by quoting Cernysevskj. "What is to be done?" I fear that there’s nothing left but to insult them...