Confusing, unable to follow the plot, too many people pop in and out....yes, exactly like a child feels watching a world he or she barely understands. This is not to everyone's taste, as a matter of fact the people who saw this with me at the local college mostly didn't get it, couldn't make sense of who the people are-and the early character transition between the child who sees his mother win the prize of most sexy mom to the professor who needed constant drugs to ease his adult existential pain was not clear. So, for those who have the good fortune to see the film, read the synopsis first, but don't worry about all the people who pop in and out.
There is a boy and his little sister, first seen when his mother is thrown out of the apartment by their violent father. But they had each other, even though he called her "dummy" it was with love, something that sustained her even in the flash forward when the mother was dying, but even in her last days the mother never lost a joi de vive that was always a part of her, never knowing how it hurt her son so deeply.
This may be representative of Italian films, Italian culture, where there is a vitality, from the pinching of a sexy women's ass to laughing in the face of terminal illness, that is strange to American viewers. But oh what a relief to see it represented so beautifully in all its sensuous chaos.
There is a boy and his little sister, first seen when his mother is thrown out of the apartment by their violent father. But they had each other, even though he called her "dummy" it was with love, something that sustained her even in the flash forward when the mother was dying, but even in her last days the mother never lost a joi de vive that was always a part of her, never knowing how it hurt her son so deeply.
This may be representative of Italian films, Italian culture, where there is a vitality, from the pinching of a sexy women's ass to laughing in the face of terminal illness, that is strange to American viewers. But oh what a relief to see it represented so beautifully in all its sensuous chaos.