Sunday 22 May 2016

Amico di Famiglia, L
(2006)


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Bleak yet stylish foray into the world of those who are lonely, unhappy and desperate. Another film about White Western social alienation that is somewhat alienating itself.

The movie focuses on the male characters who seem terminally incapable of truly communicating with women out of either fear, a lack of understanding or a sense of their own ugliness as people. These are those locked into the past with no sense of how to escape the traps they have allowed themselves to fall into.

Despite the female flesh on show and which is fetishized, there's no real corollary analysis of misogyny nor gynophobia; deadening the drama. It is very good at describing the causes and the effects but not any kind of solutions. It all just seems so arbitrary somehow, as if made up by someone who does not really know what he's talking about.

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