Review by Beatrice On 22-Jun-2023
The following is inspired by a true story. The true story is inspired by a false story. The false story is not very inspired.
The inspiration for the true story involves terraced houses; we are in Spinaceto where families live with an apparently and cordially false neighborhood relationship, while not far from there, a single father waiter lives in a prefabricated house.
More or less close-up shots tend to highlight coarse and vulgar behavioral experiences.
The future very young mother is boorish and unkempt, and the affectionless mothers of restless boys face fatherhoods complicit in uneducative triviality.
A suburb that inspires the true story of gardens with inflatable pools where the kids share the breath-holding induced by their families.
Where lice sneak into hair and projects into the minds of less idle children.
The ethical depravity of parents who do not understand how it is possible to have children so different from them, observing them like statues in the museum of horrors.
This is the fairy tale, how to reconcile the moral deafness of adults with the meticulous gaze of children?
If Nanni Moretti's Spinaceto of 30 years ago wasn't bad at all, today, seen from within, it is evil. The problem is evidently not Spinaceto, a Roman suburb like many others, including those of northern Rome, and cities that speak other dialects.
The problem is the emotional illiteracy and moral disengagement that have been growing and branching out for thirty years in that "natural society founded on marriage": the family.
If two of the spouses represented by the direction respectively define themselves as wonderful fathers and mothers while the children hatch projects beyond good and evil, it seems evident that the false story must present itself with the title of uninspired...
But the inspiration is to turn a false fairy tale into a bad fairy tale where the characters and settings are fantastic while the behaviors and flaws are terribly realistic.
Children do not laugh, they do not know how to laugh, their smile resembles a grimace of pain; they do not speak except to ask the young and provocative ruined teenager if she wants the child she has in her womb while dipping a biscuit into milk from a squeezed breast.
The immoral conformism of parents makes these children feel "the lack of blessing at their birth, which then makes them sad and unhappy throughout their childhood and youth."
This is what the two brothers magically tell, mystifying a reality so evident that the pessimism they are accused of highlights the inability to visualize the shadow that an unknown abnormality casts on life.
That life that inspires a false and uninspired story that educates to uncertainty and lack of love made of a false certainty so cruel and ruthless that it does not allow disobedience.
Being "good" is the first commandment of conformism, but disobedience is the result of an obligatory tendency to unhappiness.
The true story and the false story intersect on the path of a tragically concrete inspiration, where late despair and television news portray the ontological and now irreversible inability to observe and understand.
A Miss Violence, that of the D'Innocenzo brothers, which immediately presents itself as an uninspired false story, while Avranas' was based on a true story.
Truth is an illusion of which the illusory nature has been forgotten, said Nietzsche, and the ideal of truth is the deepest fiction.
22-Jun-2023 by Beatrice
