Review of The Boom

The idea that will be central to the next masterpiece of De sica, the Finzi-Contini garden, is already starting to be seen in this work, 10 years ahead Can a man become the victim of a society knowingly? Simply rejecting, or wanting to believe impossible, that certain behaviors may occur? Can civil society ask a man to sell his eye to continue being part of it? In the end, Sordi accepts this "compromise" with surprise but with resignation, as the rich Italian Jews of Ferrara accepted to be deported by the Nazis. A top-notch Sordi makes this strange mix of grotesque, comedy and drama credible