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The movie takes place in a surrealistic JFK airport where true characters or those who represent America seem puppets (see: the Security Manager) while those who live at the edges seem real. Tom Hanks plays skilfully the man who finds himself in a strange situation which he does not understand, but still finds means to go on, to fill his life, not to get depressed. And he turns out to be generous and capable of true relations with those people working inside the airport and non very integrated, it seems, in the American way of life.

On the opposite those who should represent American values in the sense of respect of freedom, of individuality, of civil human relations turn out to be bureaucrats, not capable to understand basic human situations which need help and understanding (the episode with the man asking for medicines for his dying father).

In this nowadays fairy the parallel world is still capable of sentiments and of true human relations while the baddies are cut off and seem left behind.

'Dogville'is a theatrical movie. The action takes place in a closed space and it is divided into chapters which are as a matter of fact scenes.

The drama starts slowly and with good premises: a stranger woman arrives at Dogville, a little town, on the run from a gang of gangsters. Her name is Grace. The little community of Dogville, city of dog, not of God, apparently accepts her and just asks her some work in exchange. And this seems to follow very strictly the protestant morality: you must deserve what you receive.

But soon afterwards things change: it is clear that people search her very closely, the risk in harbouring her is increased and Dogville asks more and more. Eventually it becomes too much and there is a break. Grace will not accept their vexations anymore and will take her revenge.

Unlike other Lars von Trier's heroines Grace will not submit to evil: she will act her revenge in the name of justice and of the rights of human beings.

The drama, very well played indeed by any character, is well constructed: there is a quiet beginning, and abrupt increasing of violence and then the turning point.

En excellent movie which demonstrates that it is possible to make movies even with small means.

'La meglio gioventù' is a long movie written for TV, but also shown at the cinemas and which won the price at Cannes contest 'un certain regard'. It is about the life of the Carati family, of people gravitating around them and meanwhile the life of Italy from the 1960s to the 2000s.

I think 'la meglio gioventù' is a very moving movie: Marco Tullio Giordana succeeds in describing minds and psychology not only of the two main characters, Nicola and Matteo Carati, but also of other people living their life around them: Giulia, Nicola's wife who takes part in Brigate Rosse actions, Adriana, Matteo and Nicola's mother, their father... Every one has his complexity, his human motivations and attitudes, his personal story which is always also involved with the general environment.

The issue is, from my point of view, a very poetical picture, something that you feel being yours as well.