Il_Paolo

Anyway, Poletti, you’re rude to Lavalin, let me tell you: a woman - or even the suspected fake of a woman - shouldn’t be touched even with a flower. Take it out on me instead, since I’ve seen in my personal profile that you even hate me! But I love you - debaserianamente, off course - and I have already forgiven you. Especially since I found out that SKY is airing "Da grande" with Pozzetto and everything is smiling at me.

Poletti, it saddens me what you write, because I suspect that you have never spent time with a girl - like Lavalin - who knows how to have fun with a simple and straightforward movie like this one, or like the one that - blessed is she and those with her - will be seen this afternoon. Think of the poetry of a late spring or early summer afternoon, the first heat, an iced Estathè, some Aribo candies scattered on the coffee table, and you lounging, alone or with a girl, watching these movies or similar ones. Don't you understand that this is something akin to Paradise? Relax, come on, I'm going back to watch "Alpha Dog." To each their own.

What a drag, guys! Just so you know, if you show a girl this movie: either she runs away horrified, in which case it's not worth dating her; or she appreciates it, and then I think the relationship is worth exploring further. If she runs away, it’s probably because: 1) she likes other things, cooler stuff (I’m talking in Milanese); 2) she only likes intellectual things, but doesn’t realize you can say smart things even starting from lesser cinema. So she’s just a snob. Come on! Happy Sunday everyone, today my recipe involves a nap, work, a Grand Prix, roast beef for dinner, and then we’ll see. SV, Il_Paolo

Eh. It was enough to read my reviews of Raoul Casadei and Banana Joe to understand that I am a moderate leftist, yet, Neu & Co., it took little for you to label me as a Berlusckino. In my opinion, the left must be critical and not superficial: I am embittered by your superficiality - even regarding the Andreotti affair - so, not wanting to confuse myself with you, I will become a right-wing voter. But first, I will contact lawyer Bongiorno to sue you. Thanks Muito, I advance a sandwich with a cutlet offered by myself.

Warmest congratulations, Blackdog. You achieve the difficult feat of making me appreciate Elvis, whom I have never loved much (while acknowledging this as his best musical and entertaining performance). I see in the portrait of Elvis a subtle representation of the most remote and unknown parts of the States for us Europeans - the Midwest - the heart of a continent that, wrongly, we believe to be the offspring of ours, and that instead, including Elvis himself, is something distant and not easily comprehensible.

His songs lose half their meaning if listened to/experienced beyond the Grande Raccordo Anulare. I really can't stand it, sorry. This heavy, fake intellectual Roman-ness shoved in others' faces, and those droplet glasses, the dyed hair, Simona Izzo. No.

IRIDE: "A prime minister who knows even the name of a single mafioso should take action to capture that mafioso..." only to then be honored with a square or a street dedicated to them as a martyr. If what is said in the film is true, I believe that Andreotti wanted to use the mafia, and that the mafia used him just as much. "Pactum sceleris"? He is neither the first nor the last in our national history. Now I’ll stop because Boldi is on TV and later I'm going to a dance hall.

Thank you, Mien, for the beautiful and profound words that complete what I couldn't express. Thank you, of course, to Lavalin as well: I promise you - but you already know this - that the gallery doesn't end here; in fact, we've only just begun.

@Larrok: I believe the real issue is the legal qualification of Andreotti's conduct, regardless of the statute of limitations. Mafia association, complicity in an association, even "external complicity" in an association, aiding and abetting? Political-mafioso collusion in itself is not a crime (it is a political phenomenon, not a legal one), and the difficulty for prosecutors and judges lies precisely in legally qualifying that type of conduct. The fact that you have toxic friends, or that you've smoked a joint or more, or that you hang out with toxic friends or the friends of dealers, who in turn associate with small, medium, or large criminals does not mean that you are a user, a dealer, or a criminal. I believe that a man of faith and science like grandpa Giulio could have mingled with mafiosi, friends of etc. without actually being one! In "Fantozzi alla riscossa," if I'm not mistaken, there is a scene where Fantozzi is contacted by the mafia to fix a trial in which he is a juror: they shower him with unwanted gifts, filled with candied fruits etc. Have you ever thought that the murder of Pecorelli could be, for grandpa Giulio, that kind of gift, a sort of sideways blackmail that puts him in the uncomfortable position of a debtor? Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes. Cheerfully Yours, Il_Paolo

Hello guys, don't take it out too much on Grandpa Giulio! Don’t fall into the mistake of making him the scapegoat, like Er Puzzone in '45, Craxi in '93, Berlusconi in 2020, etc. etc.: blaming Andreotti for all of Italy’s troubles is like blaming Patty Pravo for Riccardo Fogli's departure from the Pooh. I'll tell you why: by shifting the blame onto the so-called Symbol Man, we wash our conscience too much, as if to say that we, the people, have nothing to do with these happenings, assuming they are true. But we do have something to do with it (or rather, our dads and grandads do), because we are voters, clients, consumers, etc., just as Dodi, Stefano, and Roby surely had their faults if Riccardo wanted to leave the Pooh. PS: don’t wash your conscience by claiming to be on the left, because there are issues there too; think of Zamboni and Lindo Ferretti (now a die-hard ratzingerian, precisely because after believing in the hypostatic god of ideology, you end up believing in the true one, or rather, in his emissaries on earth). Politically Yours, Il_Paolo