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To the Guy WHo Wrote the Comment

posted 14 years ago by kipale78
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"You have to be kidding me, anyone who liked this.
The story ends at minute 10: Mussolini won't acknowledge her or the kid. Boom. There's the movie. She tries no new strategy to get what she wants, just insists over and over. Until she dies. After two hours of boring the hell out of me.
Movies need to go somewhere. Even Godard movies go somewhere. This just spins its wheels.
But, some pretty good performances. Not incredible, but good.

Also, for God's sake, they go to the movies like 1000 times in this. It was the turn of the century, they didn't even have that many. Terrible." -----> I will leave your opinions about the movie but: 1920s-1930s was NOT the turn of the century, and people would go to the movies very regularly, especially for the newsreels and the propaganda. Just like in the States, by the way. It seems like someone missed a good chance to shut up. Ciao.

[–] LuccaBrasi 14 years ago

I second that this guys an idiot .He watched the movie and does'nt even know that it was set in the 2nd 3rd of the 20th cent.-Does'nt bode well for him being intelligent enough to even write a movie review.

[–] alicecbr 14 years ago

Wow!!! How obtuse can you be? The woman was driven mad by her passion for Mussolini, after giving him everything. She may have been driven crazy by her knowledge of how stupid she had been. To watch her climbing that cage to throw out her letters made her look like a bird in a cage: kinda obvious but beautiful imagery.
At least there were a few good nuns in here.

"He who swaps his liberty for the promise of 'security' deserves neither." Ben Franklin

[–] mcgurksean 14 years ago

I agree with kipale78.

You know that no matter how many letters she writes none of them are ever gonna be sent or much less replied to.

There is absolutely no dramatic tension in the film whatsoever - once Mussolini turns his back on her it's very clear the film is only headed in 1 direction.

Also, a couple of things that annoyed me:

1. Would it be the case that Benito Albino looked exactly like his father (albeit minus the moustache)?

2. Ida was locked up in an asylum, during the course of which time we see her age (bags under her eyes, greying hair etc.) And in all probability, she would have aged more than is normal given the conditions.

Yet in the last scene, after receiving the letter from her son, she looks miraculously like she does in the first scenes, which are supposed to be 20+ years hence. Perhaps the makeup people had other things on their mind that day.

Also I thought the performances were uniformly poor.

Shame as it is to say it but (the real) Mussolini was the most charismatic thing in the whole film.

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[–] richard-1967 14 years ago

You may be right about time, Kipale, but you're wrong about the review mentioning it.

As for the movie, we have to agree to disagree. Although I thought the performances were fine, as I stated.

[–] rudykawa 13 years ago

Saying that in the 20's or 30's people didn't used to go to the movies often is very very strange.
Those were the golden ages of cinema. Chaplin, Keaton, Hepburn, Ava, Gable, Garbo, etc.

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