The first thing you meet when you study fascism is ostracism:because this" philosophy " is a fake one,there's a need to use scapegoats to assess the "thought".Ettore Scola's movie,probably his masterpiece, focuses on the outcasts,the scapegoats of the regime.
Of the historical event (Hitler and Mussolini's alliance),we will see almost nothing:some military march,some garlands,some scattered voices ..Our two heroes are not invited for the feast of virility. "Genius is essentially masculine" :this is the golden rule Antonietta (a never better Sophia Loren)embroidered on her cushion;Antonietta ,whose world amounts to her kitchen,whose pride is her offsprings .At the beginning of the movie,she's a victim of this hypermacho world,but she does not realize it.She thinks she should be happy.Gabriel,on the contrary ,is politically aware,he knows about the cancer that is destroying inexorably his country.But as a gay man,he is no longer part of it,he's about to be arrested.
Forgetting everything that comes between them,they realize what they have in common and they make love.This is an act of rebellion,particularly for Antonietta ,whose ethic should forbid such a thing.Becoming an adulteress in a land where politics and religion combine to repress women as ever leads her to some kind of political awareness.One of the last shots shows her listening to the news on the radio.
Expect the unexpected and maybe a doctrine which denies the human being his intimate personality will see that its days are numbered.

David Arquette is a young and naive home security alarm
salesman taken under the wing of Stanley Tucci. Arquette is a
golden boy, scoring a big sale on his first call- to widow Kate
Capshaw and her dopey son Ryan Reynolds. Things are going
well for Arquette, he is appearing in commercials for the security
firm and he is falling in love with Capshaw.
Then Tucci and his right hand woman Mary McCormack let him in
on a little secret- they sometimes break into the houses of their
clients in order to scare them and to get their neighbors to buy
security systems from the firm. Arquette decides not to get
involved, taking Capshaw to meet his family, and going through life
with a goofy smile on his face. Then, someone breaks into
Capshaw's home and murders her and her son. Arquette suspects Tucci, and sets a series of traps, resulting in a gun to his
boss' head as Tucci pleads his innocence.
Based on a stage play, "The Alarmist" is not opened up well. The
scenes where Arquette takes the Capshaw to meet his parents
are badly played and completely unfunny. They are also out of line
with the character Capshaw is playing, as she gets drunk and tells
sexually explicit stories to Arquette's mom Michael Learned. Other
than these scenes, Capshaw is not given much to do, but she
does a lot with the little she is given.
Stanley Tucci, looking just like Terry O'Quinn, is a riot as the
security firm owner. He is a creep who really does not understand
Arquette's moral revulsion. However, when he turns into a
sniveling whiner after Arquette kidnaps him, he is hilarious. Mary
McCormack seems to have been groomed for a bigger role, but
she mostly stands around and agrees with Tucci. Ryan Reynolds
is too old to play a dumb teenager, but he is funny, especially
telling his own explicit sexual story to Arquette.
The screenplay lurches from romantic comedy to dark comedy too
soon. Capshaw meeting the parents is completely unmotivated,
except to give her a reason to get out of town so someone can
break into her house. Capshaw and Reynolds are in the film just
to give Arquette a reason to take revenge on Tucci.
Arquette, who has proven he is a good actor, is awful here. He
relies on the constipated mugging that got him through those
AT&T ads, and he is not a strong enough presence to build this
weak film around. Actually, Reynolds might have been a better
choice in the role.
Dunsky's direction is good, nothing that will win an Oscar soon.
Christophe Beck's light jazzy score recalls the type of film noir this
film tries to be, and it is really catchy on top of that.
Despite the pluses, Arquette's failure as a lead and the script's
schizophrenic quality sinks the film. I do not recommend it.
This is rated (R) for physical violence, gun violence, some gore,
strong profanity, brief female nudity, sexual content, strong sexual
references, and adult situations.