Piety

Film - 2023

6,5

85K

Piety it's a movie with Macarena Gómez, Ángela Molina, Manel Llunell, Ana Polvorosa, María León Full cast. Directed by Eduardo Casanova. Original title La Piedad, runtime 80 minutes. Genre Fantasy.

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Voluntary servitude of

Beatrice Bianchini

Freedom is a frontier beyond which it is up to you to play, up to you with all your uncertainties; it is a bet, an act on the abysmal edge of certainties. (Miguel Benasayag) Libertad and Mateo are mother and son. They live in a luxurious house completely pink and black. All their accessories and clothes are the same colors. Theirs is a relationship extreme mother/son: addiction, sodomasochism, manipulation, madness, selfishness, sadism. Television mainly broadcasts news about North Korea: it is 2011 and shortly thereafter Kim Jong-il will die and his third son Kim Jong-un will come to power The images of the desperation of the subjects at the death of the dictator are represented with great fanfare while Mateo is diagnosed with a brain neoplasm, a glioblastoma. An initial extreme scene of the birth of Libertad who gives birth to her adult son until the images of the operation cerebral images on the boy ferociously indicate how much the director's intent is not to hide anything but rather to represent in a spectacular, clear, chromatic, geometric and aesthetic way everything that concerns the body and the mind. Although the message is at times didactic and pleased of Casanova is nourished by a rather unusual form and direct references to the extreme relationships that are created between victim and executioners and between servant and master, if not between subject and despot. Libertad in fact compresses Mateo's life, does not want to let him go, despite is an adult, and if he is ill she will be ill too. The tiredness of illness and treatment together with psychotherapy insinuate further reasons for the search for freedom, that same freedom which will undermine the now innate habits of the boy in the luxurious colored cage pink. The toxicity of this intimate relationship and the representation of the tales between unicorns and poisoned strawberries for population control in the People's Republic of Korea, does not allow us to circumvent the Read all

Riccardo Simoncini

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Mateo lives with his mother Libertad in a rose-tinted world: a microcosm that has precisely two inhabitants, mother and son. One day Mateo is diagnosed with cancer.