Reviews

In the first trilogy it's easy to find, considering the empire and the republic, a lot of common points with the roman and greek history. in the new trilogy we begin to taste something that it's always deeply connected with the roman history and it is the story of Jesus Christ. It could be just an interpretation but the character of Anakin is designed as a new saver while the cities of Tatooine remember Jerusalem. Lucas created something that could be considered a generational phenomena but he didn't do it by chance he really touched our most important roots. Another reference could be easy find in the Pad race that it's a pretty present to Ben Hur. Come on and see it.

Salò is just not a movie about the terrible stories of De Sade but a real vision of the concept of power. The castle creates a a weird surreal atmosphere where it's easy to feel in deep contact with our mind trasgressions, but quickly everything appears terrible: our democratic vision of things let us impossible to follow the anarchist manifestation of who owns the power. Pasolini touched the goal he was able to create a movie that could not be assimilated in our society and that is far away from every massification, a real masterpiece.

La Grande guerra is a real lucid vision of the war that's because the point of view is moved on two characters of the common people with real emotions and feelings, so their military adventures at first creates a sense of funny but step by step everything becomes more dramatic because the war shows absurdities and contradictions that creates real human destruction. The maximum point is touched at the end. Because of this antimilitary soul in 1959 the movie was a real proof of intelligence.

The movie has a great power, first of all he gives to Lulu a mechanical soul, the camera follows his unhuman movements caused by too much work and let us understand something strange like madness. Then we have the political part: outside the factory people are pemanently screaming verses against owners like another machine that creates words, but the real impressing moment is inside the factory where man and machine became the same things so that the camera let us see the hidden mechanical part and the human movements togheter; the music too (by Ennio Morricone) adds a sense of robotic condition.

The movie is a little cult in Italy. Some incredible scenes like the dialogue with the girl that doesn't create anything of concrete, the scream of "ecce bombo" or the poet friend of the student are great ironic suggestions to a new kind of cinema founded by Nanni Moretti.