Gabriele Muccino
Come Te Nessuno Mai

LA RECENSIONE

Come te nessuno mai (1999), directed by Gabriele Muccino, featuring Silvio Muccino (himself too). I don't understand why this film is persistently defined as a comedy. This film is dramatic. And in some parts, it borders on horror. The idea that teenagers are all idiots, utterly dazed, downright fools, who protest, smoke, drink just for conformity and nothing more, depresses me. It makes me want to cry to see a film like this.

The beginning itself, with the Abbie Hoffman quote (sure we were young blah blah blah but we were right), should hint at something. The plot is not complex: there are two idiotic sixteen-year-olds from the Roman bourgeoisie, with a desperate need to hook up.  And everything revolves around this.

The political context, drugs, different social classes, all nonsense to make the film more appealing. But in fact, it’s an adolescent TV series set in Italy. So there's no quarterback but there's the leader of the collective, there's no ocean but there's the Tiber and there are no Californian mansions but the apartments of the rich in Rome. But the essence is the same: young people with heart problems. And naturally, a happy ending, with a mega hook-up at sunset. A film about teenagers for teenagers.

The saddest thing? That teenagers like it.