El buen italiano

So, what is the movie "Comandante"? "Comandante" is a courageous movie about a part of the history of World War 2 almost forgotten, at least in Italy. Courageous because in this particular time period, where the political correctness tends to polish or iron out, in a very childish way how events in human history evolved, pretending to view all our history from a nowadays point of view, this movie does it different. For sure it has not the budget of a colossal, but it achieves what, for the same subject, Das Boot did in the eighties: photographing an epoch, with the people living in it. No post modern scripts, no revisionist dialogues or self-compassionate points of view.

The movie itself is a recount of real events, following a mission in the Atlantic Ocean performed by an Italian Submarine in the year 1940. The fear is there, the mentality is there, what you get to see is the point of view of people who fought for the other side in this atrocious conflict, depicted as it really was.

Last bust not least, the most precious thing in it, is the human side emerging, so rare, but so real, even there, in a time not so long ago.