What else can be added to this film? Words risk being almost superfluous, or worse, harmful. Once at the credits, you easily find yourself full of emotions, feelings. You feel like you have been a spectator of something secret, magical, but which in practice was nothing more than three ordinary lives, linked by a deep friendship with strong roots as only war can create. Through them, you witness the history of Italy, with a society that changes irremediably, disappointing those who, in the 45', thought that perhaps the world could change for the better, whereas "instead it was the life that changed us" as it is summed up by one of the disillusioned protagonists towards the end of the movie. Everything is brought to the screen lightly and comically, but without ever missing a continuous criticism, often also deliberately grotesque, of the changes affecting the world at those times. A recommended movie, for sure, which manages to perfectly convey the undaunted flow of time, and the randomness with which life finds itself taking certain turns, roads, directions. A film that takes you by the hand and that, in the end, leads you to think about how nostalgic and ironic is the path of each of us.
P.S: Unfortunately, for the non-Italians, it is difficult to grasp one last aspect: the film exudes Romanism, intended as a popular, direct, straightforward reality. It is everywhere: in the slang used in most of the dialogues, in the places where scenes take place (such as in the tavern). A piece that fits perfectly into this magnificent puzzle.
P.S: Unfortunately, for the non-Italians, it is difficult to grasp one last aspect: the film exudes Romanism, intended as a popular, direct, straightforward reality. It is everywhere: in the slang used in most of the dialogues, in the places where scenes take place (such as in the tavern). A piece that fits perfectly into this magnificent puzzle.