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I totally agree with who noticed big inspirations to Dostoyevsky's books. I just read one of them, the double, but I studied about the others. Watching the movie it came to my mind immediately, I liked that book! Anyway, it is usually a trouble for a movie to be inspired from a book, more if it is transported to a modern period, it is impossible to be compared to a good book you loose, but here no risk has be paid, it just use the idea of "some" books of the same author and play a story a part, so it doesn't need to be compared, well done. I am disappointed indeed with the Italian title. The translation of "l'uomo senza sonno" is something like "the man who doesn't sleep". OK, he really doesn't sleep since one year but in my opinion it didn't get the point, it has a secondary role, I don't know how to explain, ti is just a consequence. I mean, if the director have chosen this title is OK (i.e. Insomnia), but he chose another one so I don't understand why to change it. I know that everybody say that and that it is obvious, but Bale was incredibly skinny, I don't know how is possible. Kilos a part his interpretation was really good. To me, the problem of this movie is that was not long enough. It could seems a no sense, usually there is the contrary problem. I think that a longer movie give the possibility to remark a stronger anguish. I just "feel" it sometimes, and when pathos is growing it is going to be concluded. Maybe I am masochist, but I have preferred to feel anguish more.

It had a lot of nominees for David of Donatello, fortunately it didn't win anyone, it might be an insult to Italian cinema. It is the summer of three friend just after last high-school's exam, they go to Santorini island, in Greece. the plot is very banal, there are different ways to see the life and the future for each of these guys, they meet girls and living this experience they grow up, they start having fun and no more and then they learn to have important decision for their life, they learn their responsibilities. I tried to be objective for the plot, finding what director wanted to show, aren't we tired of this plots? I guess not everybody is tired, watching to the box-office, but I am. Probably they wanted to imitate hollywoodian teen movies putting a piece of Italian culture, but the mix doesn't show us anything new. It is just a happy movie with a banal happy end politically correct. Full of these pathetic mystic crisis, about love, about friendship, family, future and so on. bad interpretation for most of the actors, above all Violante Placido and Muccino, constant same music that become obsessive, it's good just the location...obviously!

Principally it is the story of two men who were part of the Portuguese revolution. It was easy to understand the contest, but usually directors starts from a historical fact to speak about something else, or they shows also the period before or after this fact, here everything happen during that couple of days when the revolution acts. It could also be seen as a kind of documentary. The movie focalize to these two people, showing as normal they were, not like common heroes, because the revolution come from people. Although it was made from military army from the title you can understand that they were just "capitaes" as the main characters. Nice colors and lights during the whole movie, excellent work for the director being her first movie, she doesn't fall to the banal way. Well shown emotions and passion of people and crowd. The character of Maia (main one)is well-made and there is also a good interpretation for Stefano Accorsi, able to show Maia's limits, this not-being an hero.