***“In this dark land, without sin or redemption,
where evil is not moral, but an earthly sorrow,
in all things for eternity, Christ never descended.
Christ stopped at Eboli.”***
I’ve been enthralled with this particular era in history for some time now, but I’ve never seen it as a looming threat, from the viewpoint of the rural regions affected (Italy in particular).
Francesco Rosi provides a meditative outlook of this point in history — “from the instep of the Italian boot” — in a meditative and sublime way that glues you to the screen throughout.
My favorite parts of this film were the philosophical debates such as the scene regarding the plate of spaghetti, and at the very end when Don Carlo deconstructed the term “peasant”
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This movie is a testament to the fact of how important film is as an art form, and the magic of seeing the world through different perspectives.
***“In this dark land, without sin or redemption,
where evil is not moral, but an earthly sorrow,
in all things for eternity, Christ never descended.
Christ stopped at Eboli.”***
I’ve been enthralled with this particular era in history for some time now, but I’ve never seen it as a looming threat, from the viewpoint of the rural regions affected (Italy in particular).
Francesco Rosi provides a meditative outlook of this point in history — “from the instep of the Italian boot” — in a meditative and sublime way that glues you to the screen throughout.
My favorite parts of this film were the philosophical debates such as the scene regarding the plate of spaghetti, and at the very end when Don Carlo deconstructed the term “peasant”
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This movie is a testament to the fact of how important film is as an art form, and the magic of seeing the world through different perspectives.
