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Please stop giving Sorrentino money to make visually beautiful but awfully written films.

posted 2 years ago by [email protected] (140)
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"La Grande Bellezza" and this one are really bad films, poorly written and full of excuses for "poetry" or "deep soulsearch" where there is none. Unfortunately this is where Italian cinema is heading to, and I am not happy about it. The film doesn't have a proper ending by itself, there are scenes that don't make sense at all (please explain the girl walking on the apartment aisle crying while ARGENTINEAN, not Napolitanian, soccer fans are yelling outside), and it seems to me that Sorrentino couldn't exactly make a good story out of a personal tragedy because it still haunts him and he did not want help or advice to finish it.

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

Whoosh..

[–] jlam888 (576) 2 years ago

It was a pretty standard biopic and not very interesting.

[–] pelosfx (135) 2 years ago

I agree he needs to work harder on the scripts of his films but the scene you mentioned makes perfect sense. It’s Argentinians living in Naples that celebrate winning the 1986 World Cup and that coincides with the sister leaving the bathroom for the first time. That had been a leitmotif throughout the film, the sister that was always locked inside the bathroom doing her nails and never showing up, even when the parents died. Whatever that means is unclear; I read this as Sorrentino(Fabietto in the film)exacting revenge on her sister for being unsupportive in those hard years

[–] [email protected] (140) 2 years ago

Thank you for the explanation! That makes sense!

[–] AngelThMan (125) 2 years ago

I think the girl walking down the hall crying was the unseen sister who was always in the bathroom. Though I'm not certain.