{"id":4418,"date":"2006-11-23T00:25:05","date_gmt":"2006-11-23T00:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/11\/a-casa-nostra.html"},"modified":"2006-11-23T00:25:05","modified_gmt":"2006-11-23T00:25:05","slug":"a-casa-nostra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/11\/a-casa-nostra.html","title":{"rendered":"A Casa Nostra"},"content":{"rendered":"

A NYtimes article on an interesting-sounding new Italian film:<\/a><\/p>\n

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"Francesca wanted to decant reality into something that wasn\u2019t a documentary,\u201d said Mr. Barbacetto, who has covered many Italian corruption scandals for Il Diario magazine. \u201cAt the same time, she wanted to make a film that went beyond current events.\u201d <\/p>\n

A result is the depiction of a society mired in moral ambiguity and selective law abidance. History shows, Ms. Comencini said, that Italians have always had a highhanded relationship with rules and legality and an ambiguous relationship with democracy. But in the past, institutions like the Roman Catholic Church<\/span><\/a> and the strongly ideological political parties in Italy helped keep individual ambitions in check. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s new is the money,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd, especially during the last 20 years, the idea that it\u2019s O.K. to use power and rules for personal profit.\u201d <\/p>\n

A second, equally powerful leitmotif concerns maternity and the inability to procreate, and this too is a direct reference to real life: Italy has one of the lowest birthrates in the world. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur fertility rate is low because Italy is desperate without knowing it,\u201d Ms. Comencini said. \u201cIt is hedonistic, but not happy.\u201d She added, \u201cYou have to sense that a moral cradle exists before you go about having children.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In other film n’ fertility news, Fr. Z reports that what we’ve heard about Children of Men<\/em> is, sadly, true.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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