Rose Island

This film has great esthetics, probably watchable on that alone, but as a whole is a mess. The narrative is so drawn out, with at least a dozen repetitions of the same joke of incredulity on the part of staid bureaucrats, that about 30 minutes in, you'd be better of stopping viewing.

The script is not perfect. And, like all European movies, it is rather slow. But it's an amazing story of freedom right from the middle of the Evil Empire. Kings, Crusades, World Wars, and a handful of individuals looking for freedom. And 2020 is the probably the best time to launch this story.

The majority of critics have no clue about the significance of the events carefully crafted in this truly Italian opereta. I was 18 when this happened and it looked absolutely insane looking at this from America. Fortunately I speak Italian and actors are just fantastic. I will give special credits to Francois Cluzet, one of my favorite French actors. The events are those that happened that year of revolts in France and elsewhere, while this engineer Rosa makes the impossible to pass the same message with technology.

This is a beautiful retrospective of history. The soundtrack is amazing and the shots fits well with the story being told. I learned about a part of history that I didn't know about and that had huge implication for international ocean governance.

"Che vuol dire che si sono moltiplicati? Non sono mica dei cazzo di streptococchi!"

Starting with our protagonist, he's a very eccentric fellow. In my opinion, he's actually very smart, but maybe too idealistic and way too industrious to be considered "normal". Being idealistic and also zealously motivated to actually materialize your radical ideas is a very bad combination. It's one thing to have these really absurd thoughts, but it's another level when you actually diligently work on it.

I'm very interested in how they actually built this island. They are not backed by a major corporation, they are strictly working on a shoestring budget. The story of actually building this "island" is already an insanely fascinating story already by itself. It's a stupidly and laughably impossible undertaking; until they point when they actually were able to do it. This to me was a missed opportunity.

The film did show a lot from the sociopolitical perspective of this story though. That, too, are also interesting but I feel like it could have been more condensed and refined. Overall it's a bizarre story, this is something I have not heard of before; and I actually somehow enjoyed watching this film.