Il_Paolo

Hello guys, maybe I should clarify my thoughts, misunderstood by some Pasolinian "de fero" like Iride and Poletti: 1) I didn't say that PPP and Brass are the same, but that starting from PPP's asses, one can end up, through degradation, with Brass's asses. Which, due to the principle of non-contradiction, doesn’t seem like the same thing to me; 2) PPP and his distinction between progress|development: it’s true that economic development does not imply progress, but we’ve never seen social progress without economic development. Then PPP, behind these turns of phrase, masked an essentially nostalgic temperament, but nostalgic|psychotic, as he aimed to reconstruct a past that was no longer there; 3) Hypocritical PPP: I wouldn’t know how else to define the behavior of someone who goes to prostitutes in an Alfetta and then pretends to be the new Rousseau with "Gennariello". 4) Poletti: look at the figure in my profile, and if you understand who I’m referring to, you’ll understand the purpose of the review. Yours sincerely, Il_Paolo

Psycho...I'm a necrophiliac

Thank you, Idle: get ready because I’ve sent a new film review with, I hope, some interesting notes straddling highbrow cinema and so-called "trash." Regarding "Il Caimano," I confirm what I wrote on the margins of the review: Moretti playing Berlusconi is a statement of the moral defeat of the director and of every individual; I would say it’s a jolt of authentic politics which, however, leaves no room for hope. One only needs to read the newspapers these days to understand how far-sighted Nanni was. Thank you for your esteem.

Who, excuse me, me (which I am not) or Rivoli?

Thank you Supersoul and Lavalin, I appreciate your observations and your feelings about my light reviews. Super, be satisfied with the references to Zuzzurro and Gaspare as well as to Marina Lothar, not to mention Max Von Sidow in Flash Gordon, which indirectly bring us back to the earthly dimension of my reviews. Lavalin: I have another one ready on a serious film - you'll see I’ll make a stir - then I promise to return to my habitat.

@Contemplation: I purposely watched it the other night on DVD. There are so many clichés about this film that I may have conformed to, but I assure you it goes against my ethics as a reviewer to copy here and there. I obviously didn't want to prove anything, but just to make Muffinman happy, who had playfully poked fun at my trash choices in some comments.

@Biorky: I need to think about it, you know, I miss my amniotic fluid, given by Zappatore and friends, I consider this a pleasant aside. @Poletti: "minor" not in relation to Bergman, but in relation to the fact that everyone is talking about this film, but who knows how many have actually seen it. If, in fact, you had read the review with the attention it deserves, you would have noted how I wrote: <<minor...as far as its distribution among the general public and its actual notoriety among average users, as well as among the younger audience is certainly concerned.>>

I apologize for being the third wheel here, but sensing that I would stir up quite a dust storm with this review - seemingly innocent but quite targeted at the direction you have taken - I would like to share my thoughts: it seems naive to polarize the defects in Naples and its surroundings; I am convinced that in Naples, the Italian shortcomings manifest in a more violent and noisy way than in other parts of Italy, where they also exist. For example: the construction blight of the north-east, from Verona to Trieste, one single city. Mauro: if you're a municipal surveyor - I know a thing or two about urban planning by profession - you know very well how throughout Italy the content of local building regulations or coordination plans is well directed towards the usual interests of a few, or of small trades; you also know how many environmental associations are financed by those with economic interests in blocking the development of certain areas, to the benefit of others. This does not only happen in Naples. And as for houses, houses, houses, I remind you that the last two building amnesties (1994 and 2003) were precisely desired by the government of the sciùr Brambilla.

Mauro, you're touching on a decidedly thorny issue: regarding Naples with its "hands tied" in the face of growing waste, it's hard to disagree with you (even though I don't know that reality deeply), but personally, I wouldn't elevate the "Brambilla" to a credible alternative model of civilization. Certainly, the average Lombard appears as a hardworking ant, but I'm frightened by the excessive attachment to private property, a certain narrow-mindedness, and the lack of a vision for problems that goes beyond one's own little garden and makes a qualitative leap for our society or our country. This aspect of early 20th-century Lombard culture leaves me perplexed: think of Gianfranco Miglio; a great scholar, an illustrious scientist, but by the end of his life, he ended up making pub-talk that was rather crude at its core.

Beautiful the comparison between Merola and Berlusconi. The morbid tone of PPP as an educator of the young boy in "Gennariello" disturbs me. They also say that Raffaele La Capria understood something about it in a book whose title I don’t remember.