First off, might I say that getting this DVD took forever, and I am rather iratated because I just got it today, and had to have watched it by tomorrow, and since it's wednesday, I leave my room at 9am and don't come back till 8pm because of work, classes, clubs, and stuff, this movie is about 2hrs long, I have to do a blog for it, and I still have to read 53 pages in a textbook for my english class tomorrow. So, I'm just warning you, brave reader, that this blog is going to be very biased.
Just so you are aware, I hate politics and the goverment, I find them boring and ineffective; we should all just go back to the barter system. Caterina meets two different groups of girls at school, Socialists and Fascists. The Fascists are presented as the upper part of society. They are rich and basically carefree people. They go to certian extremes, such as when Daniela was at the party, and seem to have no regard for the world outside their own. The Socialists are basically shown as the rebels of society. Margherita is pretty much the punk rock rebel recognizable today. Caterina becomes enveloped in these two worlds and comes to realize that neither is perfect. (Margherita's parents are seperated, and Daniela is a crazy shoping party addict.)
Caterina is yet uneffected by the strange world of adults and politics. Like she says in the beginning, she doesnt really know whats going on, and when she is taken in by both girls, she sort of goes with the flow, never realing giving her own opinion. I'm not sure what her final judgement of teh world is, I personally do think that she liked either side. (Well, she may have liked the lifestyle, i.e. houses and cars, but not necessarily the life.)
Again, not a fan of politics, so nothing really stood out to me as characterizing the different political worlds. There was the argument scene in the very beginning between Daniela's Fascists and Margherita's Socialists, and maybe the fathers outburst during the television show. The way he was booed off stage really made me mad- he was saying things that I totally agree with. That the individual person has very little say in his own life- the MAN is responsible for everything. I think that, by having the crowd boo at him, the director was showing what happens to people who speak out for what they believe in. That's my interpretation anyway. I didn't really like the father as a character, but he had some good ideas.
I agree with you about the father. He irritated me because I knew he was pushing away his family, making bad choices on how to raise Caterina, etc... But at the same time, in some of his outbursts he had some big points to make. I liked how he had a "real" father moment when he saw Caterina's tattoo. And, even though it wasn't very brave, running away so his wife could be happy was very loving and nice of him, though messed up at the same time.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree that the father character was completely intolerable and that was one of his main problems. Despite the fact that in the end his wife is cheating on him with his friend you can't feel bad for him because of the way he presents himself, so when he leaves it feels more like some obnoxious fool leaving Caterina's life rather than her own father and only in retrospect is that in the least bit sad.
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