Another unhistorical depiction of the past

Rating: 4/10 (14 January 2012)

All those Italian made movies like Novecento, Malena and this one have such a wrought up vision of sexual behavior in former days! It's one big projection; like everybody anytime was so degenerated as we are nowadays. I really find this a very annoying falsification, and people massively swallow it like truth. Don't you get that this is pumping the hundredth lie in your simple-minded heads? This whole masquerade is only intent to suggest that there has always been the violence and lust we're used to, and thus lull us asleep: you needn't worry, all this isn't abnormal because people always were like that. Well, they were not. It's absolutely untrue and you're fooled when you believe that nonsense. The degeneration on this scale springs mainly from the seventies and has developed to a mode of complicity among film directors. Do not believe it; our parents and (great-)grandparents still had the decency the majority of us lack today. Church membership was common, and people wouldn't think of all that filth we display and welter in at present. We don't even recognize anymore how divergent it is and think it's the standard way of living. Anyway, I utterly dislike that kind of movies and have skipped the rest of this one just when I'd seen a quarter of it. It's a waste of my time, and I by far prefer to see really uplifting productions instead.