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...and other craziness from the recent years ( climate changes, ecologisms, technology and AI taking power over humans etc). Raises the question of what makes us humans when intelligence is no more a criteria and the place tenderness and humour have in our humanity.

It's wild and grotesque and ubuesque and hilarious when not tragic but it leaves a note of optimism.

It's theatrical in a Wes Anderson manner but it also stays in the note of Amelie Poulain..

People here giving bad rating have obviously not understood a single thing, although it was utterly transparent to me...

Will look for others of his films after this one.

I started watching this following Caiazzo's performance in Il Mare fuori: I wanted to see what else he is capable of.

I entered a chaotic production in which it took me 2 episodes to understand who is who and what's going on. Caiazzo's talent is sadly untapped, leaving him with a minor, uninteresting character.

The main character is unlikeable.

The only one that shines is Cristiana Dell'Anna, but it was not enough to keep me watching it. I quit after the third episode. Nothing hooked me to this production, leaving me wondering in the end what was all about. Maybe I should have had more patience with it but I think movies should spark your interest from the beginning.

This is a story - not only that characters are fictional as stated but I am fully aware , even if I am neither Neapolitan nor Italian, that situations and relationships among them are not even close to realistic.

But that's not the point. Because it's a story - about the most profound of human experiences, especially when lived at a tender age, it is a story about love and friendship and devotion, about hate and violence , about joy and pain, about the warmth of an embrace when in the depths of despair, about choices, about courage and meekness, about weakness, about redemption and growth, acceptation and reject, about the complexity of human's inner being, about selflessness, about winning battles - with others and with yourself. There's a whole bestiary deployed to impersonate these themes as characters are interestingly making us think of the relations in the animal world: there are dogs (Pino, Filippo, even if of different breed), a panther (Skubra) and a splendid wolf (Carmine), a sheep (Gemma), a nightingale (Naditza), a snake (Viola), a lion (Ciro), a bear (Massimo), a monkey (Toto) and a rooster (Eduardo), all bathed in the beauty of the Italian scenery - what would one want more? Applauses to Massimiliano Caiazzo, Pia Lanciotti and Valentina Romani for captivating the screen and creating so colourful characters!

A downside (in my opinion) : as it unfolds, the serie frequently abbandons its characters leaving stories open-ended after having invested a lot of energy in, leaving the public in a quite consumming sort of quest for an end.

One more thing: having made this serie during those dark years (from 2020 on) it is remarcable how it pleas for freedom, breaking the rules, not losing morality and stay on the truth's side while cherishing relationships above everything. Maybe, in the spirit of the serie, it was the boldest act of all.