I find myself completely in the trial of Antonio Socci on what was Benigni's performance at the Festival of San Remo.
Thanks Antonio Socci !
But we wanted a comedian to make us feel a people?
Posted: February 19, 2011 02:10 AM PST
Roberto Benigni deserves a big "thanks". Sure, some of the crap said in his performance at the Sanremo Festival.
For example, if I understand (because it bundled with a speech topics overexcited) said it was Mazzini, in 1830, invented the Tricolore. E 'nonsense.
I wonder how he came to mind: the Tricolore was designed by Luigi Zamboni and De Giambattista Rolandis in Bologna in 1794 (I said recently in these columns). It was then taken up - as everyone knows - the Republic Cispadana in 1797. Mazzini was not even born.
benignesco suggestive is the reference to the origins of the Tricolor by Divine Comedy (Purgatorio XXX, 30-33), but unfortunately the actor knows that the Tuscan white, red and green dress Beatrice indicate the three theological virtues, Faith , Hope and Charity, and so the reference to Dante's remains incomplete.
Somebody should explain to Bossi and the League that the Tricolor was born from the banner of the Lombard League (the red cross on a white field that came from the Crusades) and the unification of Italy is largely an 'enterprise Po " .
But who knows if they listen. To return to
Benigni, there are then due all'ingarbugliamento verbal gaffes of the comic, as when he said that Italian culture existed before the nation's nonsense, who knows why echoed by news like a brilliant idea.
meant to say that the Italian nation and culture existed before the unitary state (which is precisely built in 1861).
It was a beautiful idea - that of the Italian culture before the State - which would be investigated. Too bad that he dropped.
And pity that the prayer had celebrated a civil Benigni Risorgimento elementary school a hundred years ago.
It 'been a flood of rhetoric Lombard small lookout. He told a tale full of heroes, young and strong (who died) far removed from reality.
There was even the hint of shadows, of errors and also the horrors of the "conquest of Piedmont."
Benigni said that I think has been great and has done a great thing anyway.
First of all his feelings and his emotions that have touched our hearts and made us feel as our national anthem even an unlikely and somewhat awkward.
Benigni's case is emblematic. Nobody has thought about how strange that a comedian is in fact responsible the only real celebration of the 150th anniversary of Italy (actually Benigni's performance in Sanremo was the most anticipated speeches of the President Napolitano).
In reality there is a deeper reason. And 'the fact that, after fascism, which reduced his love of country to a speck first comic and tragic then (for nationalism, colonialism and the catastrophe of war), the only two ways that Italians, in fifty years a Republican, allowed themselves to be patriotic are the football (the stadium where he played the national team, became the only place where waving the tricolor) and the comedy (See "The Great War" starring Gassman and deaf, for example).
The comic register allows us to tell us that we are indeed proud to be Italian (especially with the legend "Italians good people"), but with a reassuring smile, with the implication that that do not take ourselves too seriously and no one dreams of more to emulate the Roman Empire: in fact, the Italians can only be "accidental heroes", just like Sordi Gassman and in that masterpiece of Monicelli.
Even the stage was emblematic of the celebration of Benigni: the festival of Sanremo and Tv
emblematic because (first) and TV Festival is the temple of feeling national-popular (second) because it fit perfectly into the stereotype more widespread and commonplace - the Italians spaghetti and mandolin - and (third) because they confirm the stereotype even caught for which - ultimately - our art and our culture are the two thousand years the heart of the world (the rest of the festival prides itself on being "Italian music").
There is another small revolution made memorable by Benigni: for half a century the word "homeland" was a taboo for the communist left and the mainstream culture. Just say to be accused of fascism .
Not only that. The Communists had certainly made a great contribution to the country's liberation from fascism, in the partisan war, but the Communist Party was in thrall to Stalin, to a foreign power and threatening enemy of Italy.
To understand what that means it must be remembered that in the most dramatic moment of confrontation between the USSR and the free world, around 1948-1949, when the Red Army was eating half of Europe, enslaving tens of countries in Eastern Europe and reaching Trieste with a hungry and aggressive aims, as a Enrico Berlinguer - the best of that field (at that time leader of FGCI) - stated that in case of war the young people would not fight against the Red Army. He made the same indignant
De Gasperi said that in person, with his tough speech (the link with the USSR's Communist Party last long: even the Soviet funding came up in the late seventies).
again in the eighties - the crucial matter of the missiles (which will cause the changes in Moscow by the collapse of communism) - the Communist Party, rather than siding with NATO to deal with the threat of Soviet missiles targeted on Europe , chose a "pacifism" which actually meant not to defend national interests and benefit the USSR (who knows remember ... if the President Napolitano).
Having said that today we can speak of "home" without ideological taboos of the past, as it did Benigni is a good thing. that together we can acknowledge our past and our country as one family is wonderful .
more so on this anniversary of 150 years of national unity, in which the country seems torn apart by hatred and contempt for each other makes it nearly impossible to identify themselves as one people.
Benigni has been found to play a role that should not be entrusted to a actor, especially a comic actor, but he found religion in his own way to sing a hymn that has united us and nobody would return with equal ease. For a few minutes on mutual hatred and contempt has prevailed in all the feeling of being a people. It has prevailed love for that beautiful thing called Italy.
Antonio Socci
to release, February 19, 2011
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