zordy

If one can stomach a super-realistic rendition of violence and corruption in Rio, where the real villains aren't the gangsters but the police and politicians, this is the right movie. Apart the interesting social and philosophical issues that can be sparkled, it is a very well directed, written and acted piece of cinema. What follows it's a warning for Italian audiences.

La versione che la Rai ha mandato in onda e che è disponibile su RaiPlay è censurata, perché evidentemente Mamma Rai ha ritenuto alcune scene troppo forti per il suo pubblico. Inoltre, gran parte del commento fuori campo del protagonista è assente. In cambio di questo bel trattamento, paghiamo il canone in bolletta. Cercate l'originale.

I'd save a couple of good scenes, but letting the camera turn in front of, well, nothing could be fashionable but personally I find it annoying. Someone said that life is a film without editing, and these overlong, void sequences look too much as life and too little as cinema. Maybe this was exactly what the director meant: for instance, 5 minutes shooting an email screen looks a lot like our real, today's life. But it's horribly boring. Not entertaining, but also it doesn't tell me anything new about life either. A futile exercise in artsy cinema. Haneke made some very good films in the past, namely "Amour", actors and themes of which can be found in this one, but really the two can't be compared.