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Quando c'era Berlinguer (2014)
Berlinguer and his revolutions
I did not live the Italian First Republic, my memories start with 90s, and similarly to many of my generation I could not comprehend how the politic was before Silvio Berlusconi. Then I am really grateful to Walter Veltroni for having directed this precious documentary/film.
Lots of interviews (with the actual President, with companions of the Communist Party and with political opponents, with Ingrao, with Berlinguer's daughter Bianca who revealed something of his private profile) and original sequences of Berlinguer's speeches contribute to lift the fog upon a quite controversial historical period for Italy.
The style is similar to a narration, which is very dear to the author, where every character has been investigated both by the emotional and by the political point of view. At the end of the documentary I felt Berlinguer's words so deep, revolutionary and actual. I am grateful with the author for this work.
Jobs (2013)
Weak plot (even if...)
The first words that came to my mind were "traces to nowhere". Why? Because at the end of the movie we don't know the real Steve Jobs, only his work emerges. The main goal of the movie was to avoid any kind of hagiography of Steve Jobs. For doing these J.M. Stern did not try at all to find the "man under the mask" of the entrepreneur/genius/father founder of Apple Inc. At the end the movie the question: "Who was Steve Jobs?" is still opened.
Moreover the historical landscape is not inquired. You cannot smell the cultural ferment the beginning of the personal computer era. For example the actor's only way to express their restlessness is to yell. Ashton Kutcher and the plot writer tried to show a kind of evolution of Steve Jobs' personality, but they failed.
Summarizing: weak plot (even if...) and bad interpretations. Maybe this movie has been thought in an era too close to Jobs' dead.