"The Conformist"
by Bernardo Bertolucci, Alberto Moravia, Vittorio Storaro
Bertolucci moved to another dimension. Sadness. His sensitivity, passion, and insights were way above the scale. From my school days I remember excitement among fellow filmmaker students when his subsequent movies kept shaping our understanding of what's possible on screen.
"The Conformist" is also a disturbing analysis of the lure of fascism, of the mechanism in which people are drown into the arms of a gigantic monster made out of collective weaknesses, unprocessed hurt and emotional and intellectual limitations. The weak parts of ourselves (individually and collectively) extrapolate and return its collective power to the lost and confused individuals. "The Conformist" shows the psychological attractivness of such a monster. Today's relevance of this analysis cannot be ignored.
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