A young man can work in the town factory, an oil refinery, and have a salary, as his girlfriend, father, and brother do. Or? But what Or is there? To imagine blowing the factory up? He could be a charmer. A prostitute tells him he looks good (and Nicola Adamo does). Or--there's crime, which for him doesn't work out. Incarceration is a kind of factory; partial liberation is to a labor camp. But Jimmy's lack of an Or is set deeper. He can't relate to other people, he can't account for himself. The Or would be sheer release, which he may conceive of as escaping. I don't know thenovel by Massimo Carlotto, but I'd like to know where it ends. I also don't have enough philosophy to describe Jimmy's alienation. The stronglife-hardened woman played by Valentina Carneletti could offer him an alternative path. Or religion, of which there is rather much. More than once, Jimmy runs the wrong way down the stairs.
OK, not a big movie like "Gomorra" (but more inward about crime). Bare, but also not self-indulgent like "Io sono amore."
OK, not a big movie like "Gomorra" (but more inward about crime). Bare, but also not self-indulgent like "Io sono amore."