Title: Children of the Stars
Year: 2010
Starring: Pierfrancesco Favino
tragicomic and surreal story of an Italy tired and dejected. A 'Italy at so conscious of their problems to become overwhelmed and unable to live without: a modern fable about social problems, underlying ideologies and deception on' Italian rough and careless. A band of the hole as seen in the "usual suspects" in short. Stories on the margins of society are intertwined creating a pout pourri of emotions that culminate in the action, strong and resolute action from which you can not hold back: a kidnapping.
A chronically unemployed, a worker in Porto Marghera, and a man returning from Gabbio want to kidnap the Minister of Labour, to ask for a ransom that would be a noble gesture to the unsuspecting widow of a worker who died in un incidente nella prima scena del film. Il trio si rivela subito per quello che è: degli emarginati che organizzano un rapimento tanto per fare qualcosa, per ribellarsi al destino e all'ingiustizia: nella calca dell'impianto termale in cui si trova il ministro sbagliano ostaggio e rapiscono un sottosegretario che nulla aveva a che vedere con Gerardi (il ministro). Vorrebbero liberarlo, ma ormai è tardi: di sua iniziativa il padrone di casa del covo (cugino di uno dei tre) ha scritto e inviato ai quotidiani una rivendicazione altisonante e militaresca, che parla di un gruppo armato per il proletariato, organizzazione nazionale e quant'altro. Insomma, dalla padella alla brace! Memorabile la scena in cui due dei tre rapitori gli chiedono spiegazioni, sat in the car with him while children are brought to school. To diminish even further the credibility of this "armed proletariat 'is shown in a brief dialogue with a teacher of children: a nun, because the school is Catholic and chose his wife.
The film after all, is cheerful and easygoing, he manages to extricate himself well through current issues and difficult to frame in a much lighter. The insecurity, marginalization, the vices of power, ideology less credible and more distant from reality. The supreme sense of helplessness and Gattopardesco, starts with the final phrase "at least we did something." Despite some heavy shots too (first close-ups during the dialogues, which aimed "snookered, long stationary shots) directed me happy enough, I must admit that I did not expect a film as tasty and not very obvious. While remaining an Italian comedy, feel-good and sometimes mediocre, able to express themselves fully and clearly, giving rise to a good alternation between moments "serious" and the comic moments, made a comic after all fine and introspective to the collective consciousness of Italians.
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