March around the World 2023
2/30: Italy
Wow, beautiful, meaningful, tearful, this is a masterpiece. Coming from the Neoralism Italian tradition, you can also see how modern and actual it can be. What if Olmi's The Tree of Wooden Clogs had a different outcome, what if Batistì and Batistina were our contemporaries?
Landowners preventing the people working for them to access basic rights, this is just a paroxysm of the capitalist society nowadays, but it works in the same way. We can be exploited as unaware tenant farmers or as beggars in a world of rich bankers, this is the same fucking thing and it hurts.
