Review of Un borghese piccolo piccolo

The genius of this film is the use of comedy (so commonly used during the 50's) to inject into a drama. The madly commuter travails, squeezing the tiny Fiat 500 through traffic, getting a spot, fighting with the doorman who has to write you up because you're one minute late in entering the Ministry office. This movie is very "Rome" because of the bureaucratic offices there, the same could be said of "Washington DC". The secret meeting the previous commenter mentions is not a underground fascist meeting, but a Mason's secret meeting, sort of a secret handshake or sect that bureaucrats and other insular bodies of government rely on to enforce a "code" of behavior or lifestyle. In fact, the Mason's chief is somewhat disappointed with the main character for not following the Mason's funeral style for the burial of the killed son. So, one watching this film laughs and laughs, and then it gets serious. Even psychological, but almost to reveal a hidden secretive psychological side that society condemns, but that, in secret, an individual manifests. Like torturing sadistically the killer. And at the end, as the image zooms out, one is left alone and indistinguishable from the rest of the crowd in a sea of humanity. Here in the US, it is not available on DVD, but I found it in libraries in VHS.