the film: plot?

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The film is about a producer, Silvio Orlando, who made some trash films in the 70s, then he went out of business. He has a lot of problems with his family too, because he's divorcing his wife, played by Margherita Buy. One day he meets a young director, played by Jasmine Trinca, who suggest him to do a film about a character called "il caimano", who is inspired by Silvio Berlusconi. They have a lot of problems finding the money and the actor, because everybody is afraid to do a film about Berlusconi, his power, his links with the mafia.
The film is a complex mixture of politics and private and has a metafilmic structure, like "Otto e mezzo" by Fellini.
Silvio Orlando lost his financing and his leading actor, but he decides to shot just one scene, the last one, in wich the caiman is condamned by the court of justice to 7 years of prison. In that scene the caiman is played by Nanni Moretti. When the caiman leaves the court many of his supporters start throwing molotov against the court, and that's probably the beginning of a civil war.
Moretti wants to demonstrate that Berlusconi changed Italy with his televisions and his way of behaving against the Consitution. His film is a politic one but it's also a love story and somehow a comedy, and I think it's coherent with the tradition of italian civil cinema of the 60s and the 70s, like "Le mani sulla città" and "Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto". The film is strong, wonderfully played by the actors and very good and, as you can see on this forum, is a good picture of what Italy has become in the hands of Berlusconi.

Dizzie told perfectly the plot of the movie, and I totally agree with the fact that it isn't right to babble about politics when it comes to this movie. People are thinking Moretti's intention was to make a movie against Berlusconi. Indeed, nothing about Berlusconi that you see in this movie is unknown to Italian or foreign people. Everything is clear, under everyone's eyes. The power of Moretti's movie is that of being a lot of movies in a single film! It's a comedy, a romance, a study on the crisis of italian genre movies and (but not mostly) a study on how Berlusconi changed the minds of many italian citizens, making them become very similar to him. As someone said, when you look into the abyss, beware... the abyss will look into your eyes too! One of the best scenes is when Silvio orlando and Jasmine Trinca ask Nanni Moretti to play the part of Silvio Berlusconi for their "movie inside the movie" and he answers no, because "I'm writing a comedy right now". Jasmine Trinca says "Yeah, right! A comedy! That's just what we need nowadays!" and Moretti replies "EVERYDAY IS THE RIGHT DAY FOR A COMEDY"... Because that's the kind of movie lobotomized people like to see :-)
Anyway, this last Nanni Moretti movie is well constructed, well played, it's very emotional and funny and it's one of the most felliniesque of his movies since "Sogni d'oro".

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