Brutti, sporchi e cattivi

(1976) Ugly, Dirty and Bad/ Brutti, sporchi e cattivi (In Italian with English subtitles) PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA

Although, the movie doesn't have a plot, it does however, introduces us to a family living together in a boarded-like shack in one of the most poorest locations in Italy. It's located high on a hill, near a highway which can be labelled as your average dumping ground. The head of the household is Giacinto Mazzatella (Nino Manfredi) who appears to own this little shack along with his wife and older sons and their kids scrunched, sleeping together on whatever small spaces s/he could find. And each one of the members are throwing hissy fits with one another, especially the head of the household, who is the father. He throws the biggest fit of them all who sleeps with a loaded shotgun beside his bed getting all paranoid, about his bundle of money which he hides it on different locations, wherever he could find. His mother whose like the oldest member of this family does nothing but watch TV, whereas each morning everybody else leaves doing what hoodlums do, which is thieving and loitering. Much of the movie showcases the father with his one good eye grumbling about his no good kids, with the neighbors who clash at them. As we the viewers observe the family squabbles with one another, particularly against the father, it is still fascinating to see how each of them cope with another this long, for although their lifestyle is routine, it's still enough to keep our interests from sticking to them until the very end.