Movie Details
Original Language:Italian
Production Companies:Opus Films
La Rabbia
Audience Score
1 hr 44 minDocumentary
Documentary footage from the 1950s and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existential question Why are our lives characterized by discontent anguish and fear The film is in two completely separate parts and the directors of these respective sections leftwing Pier Paolo Pasolini and conservative Giovanni Guareschi offer the viewer contrasting analyses of and prescriptions for modern society Part I by Pasolini is a denunciation of the offenses of Western culture particularly those against colonized Africa It is at the same time a chronicle of the liberation and independence of the former African colonies portraying these peoples as the new protagonists of the world stage holding up Marxism as their salvation and suggesting that their innocent ferocity will be the new religion of the era Guareschis part by contrast constitutes a defense of Western civilization and a word of hope couched in traditional Christian terms for mans future
