The tale of a mass murder
The author critically dwells on some formal and thematic aspects of the film
Romanzo di una strage by Marco Tullio Giordana. Overall, he finds that the
film gives a lukewarm and moderate representation of a historical period that
was dominated by cries and rebellion, and thus contrasts strongly with that impassioned
period, marked by violence and conflict. The reassuring acting style
of the cast, the weak use of color and soft-toned images, and bodies’ almost
total lack of materiality appear as a metaphor of a renunciation and mistrust of
Politics and participation in History, a metaphor whose dominant component
is impotence. But this is how for some time now a significant part of the Italian
middle class prefers to depict itself.