supersoul

ecce alter pallosissimum utent... but why do you get so worked up about this stuff? I believe that I, Alessio, dreamwarrior, mopaga, Dalì, are more modern and unconventional than a wolfatthedorr or anyone who gives a 1, because we smile at this sense of belonging, we desecrate it in the Frank Zappa way of "Tengo na minchia tanta," we tease each other with jokes like "o zappatore nun s'a scord a' mamma, zan za'!" and so on. Just imagine me doing melodrama at Merola's grave; I wouldn’t even be ashamed like you are, because (paraphrasing Perigeo) everyone in Italy has a Merola’s grave to cry over. But what taboo do you want to debunk, do me a favor...

Dadosh asks "and how is this?". It seems to me that the reviewer has told him that abundantly, in addition to specifying it in the last sentence. My 3 takes into account the fact that they should not have dared to touch "Born to be wild."

Muffin, I consider you a reasonably (sorry for the reasonably) intelligent person to understand that the 5 you were given is the result of a sort of "belonging" which, I’m sorry to say, but it is true, you "non-Napolitans" will never understand. It’s the sum of everything we try to shake off and everything that still ties us to a certain tradition. This isn’t about being alternative and claiming it’s a valuable film because we all know that Brescia isn't Fellini nor Francesco Rosi, but none of those who rated it a 5 will say it’s a crap show, because those things—the son who goes away and despises the humble family that allowed him to "evolve"—are a bit of "the lived" or "the seen" of us Neapolitans who now enjoy writing online instead of tilling the soil, and many times with our comments we show that we are just as good as users who didn't have parents who were farmers.

Here we forget something fundamental, that the production is by Rick Rubin and he can make even Albano sound rock. In fact, Rubin thinks he's dealing with AC/DC. Anyway, this album has tracks that will make you jump out of your seat. If only we had artists today who could do the same...

It's my logic, Tom, I don't expect it to be yours. There are books I've read that I don't want to be made into a movie, and others, like the one by Cormack McCarthy, that demand a visual satisfaction from me (and I hope the Coen brothers did it well). Doesn't it happen to you?

Well, it doesn't take Mereghetti to understand that the 5 stars came from Neapolitan users WHO HAVE SEEN IT and give it a heart rating rather than a head one. Do you think it’s fair and just for non-Neapolitan users who HAVE NOT SEEN IT to give it 1 star so that summary justice can be served like in the days of Liberty Valance?

Well, I would say it's necessary to read the book that came out a couple of years ago, and if you've read it, I think you're less eager to see the film because the book doesn't ask for any other interpretation, no Nanni Moretti as Pietro Paladini, no Isabella Ferrari for the gossip about the sex scene, no Gassmann as the trendy brother. At the end of the book, I didn't cry but I felt good.

Everyone is criticizing the Neapolitans for feeling sorry for themselves, but with a bit of film culture, one could know that Lo Zappatore (a traditional Neapolitan sceneggiata based on the song by Libero Bovio) was brought to the screen back in 1950 by Rate Furlan, who was a strange and multifaceted "northern" character (pianist, composer, screenwriter, director, actor even in Greenaway's "The Belly of an Architect") who used actors that were anything but Neapolitan (Gabriele Ferzetti, la Merlini) for a farce that made Albertazzi say at the time that it was shameful that such things were still being produced in Italy. At least Brescia in its genre is honest and made the film to please the Neapolitans who feel sorry for themselves, not for mauro60 who lives in the Alps... and who surely hasn't even seen it, yet he drops the usual one about (dis)trust that sounds so "poletti."

mauro60 should reread the previous comments before writing new ones; otherwise, he shows at least 4 different personalities. "...but art is everything that involves human creativity to give emotions to others." This is a definition that could fit perfectly for the 50 seconds of the Lumière brothers projected to the people who ran away to avoid the oncoming train from the screen. A few posts earlier, he had said that in their case it was necessary to distinguish between science and art and that this was an experiment and not cinema. You see what I mean.......

@paloz don’t judge by stopping at the first track, maybe freshly "dumped," this record is damn hard and even garage in some cases (in "I want you" it feels like hearing the Fuzztones!); @Ole if you can, give it a listen and let me know because I trust you, it’s clear that they’re ultra-derivative but it’s a record above average rounded to a 4 just because they’re Italian and damn it, let’s say it sometimes they make a better figure than genre champions who are now deflated. @reverse it’s the one with the flowers on the cover, right? But I think that before buying it you already knew New Order while I went in blind. And anyway, on that album there’s an amazing "Blue Monday," right?