La vita agra 1964, Carlo Lizzani.
Today I celebrate the 1,000 th review of the blog! First then a virtual toast to all the friends that I always honor the wonderful comments. To celebrate I have chosen a masterpiece set in Milan, the city I love more than anything else in the world and where I live always, though in 'outskirts.
atypical Before starting this review, which will be a photo-story, a short hymn of love I want to spend just for Milan. Despite all the myths that surround it, the coldness, the dedication to work and so on and so forth, I never, never, I only heard in this city, which like all cities to live is complex, confusing, polluted. There is everything in Milan, everything, and the spirit of Milan, that those who live embody loving, including migrants, is made of altruism, generosity and great sense of humor also, it is so, I am a loner who loves company. It seems an oxymoron? It is not. Milan have this ability in a human tide of being alone with no discomfort and when conditions allow the company alive! But when I feel the need of hanging out on my own are in a place that allows me to do so. and we can enjoy the moment and it goes on, it always looks forward. I could not give it up in this city that I feel my, how essential is my bastarditudine: proud to be proud of my origins in Milan and Salerno.
Today it is so, I only see the glass half full, even for three full quarters. Since it is a kind of birthday, a day of celebration, I ask all of them known only to emphasize the virtues of this city of infinite resources, delaying talks about his problems (where there are none?) For other occasions.
The beautiful ocean liner in the entrance hall to the platforms of the Central Station. Today is gone. I had time to see him as a child, I kidnapped her eyes. Start here
history after a farewell to classical binary: Anna (Giovanna Ralli) on the train and Luciano Bianchi (Ugo Tognazzi) on the platform. You, Roman journalist, it has long been the lover-companion. He had come from Guastalla in Milan, where he lived and had family, with the intention of blowing up a skyscraper in the CIS, owner of the mine where he worked before being fired as manager of culture.
Public baths. Many were forced to place hygiene. As mentioned in other reviews in Milan and elsewhere were not uncommon houses without bathrooms. If the needs for shared bathroom floor was enough to wash it was not always the best, better public toilets, on average, well-maintained and that they would give you everything from soap all'asciugamano.
The notorious skyscraper in the CIS in the foreground. It is actually the Tower Galfa for many years the seat of the Banca Popolare di Milano, now unused and renovation. In the background the famous Pirelli Tower, headquarters of the Lombardy Region. We have to admit: the modern skyscrapers are like the pyramids, give a sense of strength, power, modern cities. Milan is not New York, there are few, but they are all important pieces of history preserved. Galfa Tower (built between 1956 and '59) is among the oldest, simbolo del Boom Economico italiano che è il soggetto primo del romanzo e del film.
Luciano, licenziato tempo addietro, chiede un colloquio col presidente della CIS. Vuole rientrare in azienda a lavorare, col solo scopo di trovare tempi e modi giusti per far saltare in aria l'edificio. Il presidente è irraggiungibile e persino parlare con le segretarie è possibile solo tramite videochiamata. Uno dei tanti momenti amaramente esilaranti del film, anche per la ricca dialettica ironica di Luciano.
Uno scorcio della bassa padania, una cartolina. Guastalla, in provincia di Reggio Emilia. Questo è uno squarcio del meraviglioso Grande Fiume, Po, during a hunting scene with pheasants.
scene anthology!
Giampiero Albertini, good actor Milan, is free, a name that says it all. Representing the miners and asked the representative of the CIS came from London to fix a serious security problem. The negative response, with an ingenious contrivance, the rifilerà a sound and well-deserved raspberry.
The funeral of the 43 miners who died for the lack of implementation of the most basic safety rules by the CIS. Subject matter and should not present too.
Decision revenge. It is not just a revenge, desire to understand a system that gobbles up everything in the name of the business rules that there is someone who does not fit!
Useless. A futile task, with a secretary to lick the envelopes useless, useless but zealous, which chews and closed even when empty. It 's all a part of the business roles, the status symbol, hilarious. The nice thing is that during the film sometimes looks Luciano room and speaks directly to viewers, as if to say you also notice these things?
There's a whole speech, including a sort of circle of friends in a bar, the influence media about our ambitions, expectations, very 70s, very revealing and exposed with passion, without platitudes. Affected by several times, is a kind of treatise on happiness, or rather how to avoid being caged by the happiness alleged that the advertising we propina.
Bowling at Columbine before its time. Enter a store to buy kg and kg of TNT, more fuses, primers, and all this with a committed enthusiastic that even the question arises: what should we do co '' this stuff?
Times are bleak, there is little money. It 's a small moment in the film, but I loved that gesture of Luciano. 2 half slices of Taleggio, and removed the paper from the peel is also the gnawing, to enjoy every edible part. How many have seen in my life, eat well! (In brackets, with rare exceptions, I always eat the rind of the cheese if edible)
Luciano will initially career as a translator of foreign books. He's only the problem that results using a very popular, particularly in certain exclamations or phrases, and that the publisher (note well the furnishings and where guests sit down to understand the character) does not go down much.
First entry on tiptoe into the world of advertising, where you will find maximum expression to his talent. Ironically, he, so critical to the consumer world, will become the great architects, with slogans and found ingenious! Below is intent on finding a word for a detergent that is not white, clear, etc. ..., and will eventually return to the CIS as a successful manager.
Sometimes, the very people who fight for a long time to find a system to the other side of the fence and with extraordinary powers. The reason is simple: if you want to fight something well you have to study well, better even of those who, for that system, is certain of the recipient. Not only that. As a former opponent and know the weaknesses in entrandone part are very smart, you know where the enemy comes to challenge you. Luciano was overwhelmed by his needs, mortgages, installment payments: hath been gentrified. Almost unwittingly has been overwhelmed by the system, fatally.
Without telling than the film, a few frames of pure memory and meaning. This urban landscape is incredible, Milan so I've never seen it! The Cathedral on the right and in front, across the square, the Gallery ...
When a child (I was 3 years old) my family moved from San Donato Milanese Corvetto these landscapes were di quelle periferie dei comuni limitrofi. Le case nascevano ben prima delle strade, e per anni sono andato a scuola cogli stivali di gomma ai piedi. Ogni volta che pioveva c'era fango dappertutto, proprio come in questo frame che per me è stato un deja-vu, tranne per la macchina, quella di mio padre era una fiat 600.
Ecco, il grattacielo esplode sì, ma di fuochi d'artificio. Luciano col presidente ammetterà che voleva far saltare il grattacielo, verità che ormai appare come una battuta. La risposta del presidente sarà sconfortante: "e perché non l'ha fatto? avremmo preso i soldi dell'assicurazione!". Mostruoso, questo sistema è così ben autoalimentato ed autoreferenziato that seems impossible to unseat. A cold shower.
And here? Here we are at "home", the feud Lombard wanted to Eni Enrico Mattei, the first office buildings, in the business entity in San Donato Milanese. What a picture! Industrial Architecture for Fine Arts I have lived long in Via Enrico Mattei, I attended the Technical Institute Enrico Mattei and short, just find the time and finally, I review "The Mattei Affair".
A journey in "my" story, but not much before my childhood, a bit 'of nostalgia, some tear and emotion. The film, Olimpo de Olympians, it's beautiful and also very funny oltre che ricco di spunti di riflessione. Ne ho citati nemmeno la metà degli spunti possibili, è la verità.
Imperdibile e da vedere più volte!
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