Friday, December 14, 2007

a beautiful country??

i just found out about a movie, a documentary, that has just been released in italy:
Biutiful cauntri



it's about the situation of the garbage in campania, the region in italy where i come from. the situation is really tough, and has been so for more than 10 years now.

i am nobody to speak about that, because i left the place and because i don't know so many things. but i can spot who really has something to say about it. and from the 3 minute promo i saw on the internet, i can say that this movie is worth being seen.

i haven't seen it though, it was only projected at the film festival in torino one month ago, and still got no distribution. which is no surprise obviously.

but i am damn curious about watching it. not only for the things i could learn from it. those you can always look for in some official documents. i mean, these products like the book "gomorrah" or movies like this one, they don't really say unknown things. it's more like they state the obvious. what's so obvious that we tend to forget.

and they do have the merit to broaden the audience who might be interested in such issues.

that's why i am curious about "biutiful cauntri". it looks like good stuff. i want to see it and confirm what i thought after watching the trailer: a movie like this should be screened on national tv at 20:00 for a whole week! and maybe distributed in schools and offices, and public discussion should follow.

as for now, i will just start looking for the authors hoping that i will be able at least to have a look at it...

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