This starts off as a well made, nice Italian film. But shortly after its first 20 minutes, there is this scene of a pig getting mutilated ALIVE. That is something I can't stand watching. As if it wasn't enough what they do to these and other poor animals in real life, they also did it in the name of a film? And knowing that the animal was gutted for real makes me cringe even more. So much cruelty on the animals, makes me wanna cry and feel ashamed of being human and eating meat.
This horrible part with the pig nearly made me stop watching the movie right there, but I still managed to watch the rest of the thing. After this awful scene, the movie improves a lot and becomes generally good but later it gets somewhat boring and dull. Besides, it's very long (3 hours). Even if the whole movie was good or even excellent, the pig scene alone prevents me from liking it or recommend it.
This film has still some clues from the popular Italian neorealism: it's a take on the life of the poor ones and the cast consists in real farmers and locals instead of actors.
Apparently this is Al Pacino's favorite film. He didn't directly say it was his favorite, however when questioned what was his favorite film, he revealed that he «always liked 'The Tree Of Wooden Clogs'».
This horrible part with the pig nearly made me stop watching the movie right there, but I still managed to watch the rest of the thing. After this awful scene, the movie improves a lot and becomes generally good but later it gets somewhat boring and dull. Besides, it's very long (3 hours). Even if the whole movie was good or even excellent, the pig scene alone prevents me from liking it or recommend it.
This film has still some clues from the popular Italian neorealism: it's a take on the life of the poor ones and the cast consists in real farmers and locals instead of actors.
Apparently this is Al Pacino's favorite film. He didn't directly say it was his favorite, however when questioned what was his favorite film, he revealed that he «always liked 'The Tree Of Wooden Clogs'».