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Mafia is not the glamourous, honour-coded organisation that some Hollywood movies want to show. Mafia is vile and power-blinded. And this movie gives it the treatment it deserves by making fun of it, mocking mafiosi and depicting them as what they are: A bunch of uneducated, machista, greedy men. This is very refreshing. Also because the movie makes use of music and dancing, pop colours and surrealism to enhance the parody, and it works really well in my opinion. It seems like a silly movie, but it's very serious.

Tano da morire, together with La Piovra, are the best representations I've seen of Sicilian mafia.

This movie deals with the classical subject of an artist struggling to come up with a new creative idea. The way this. In this case we have Pirandello and a series of circumstances that lead him to one of his great dramaturgical achievements. It's all fiction as far as we know, but it's a good plot.

The problem lies in the execution. Toni Servillo plays again the same character he's been playing since La Grande Bellezza, and it's annoying. I haven't seen him acting a different role since Il Divo, and in any case I refuse to believe Pirandello was such a tight, depressing person.

Verga is also in the film, but only for a very short moment. A pity, it would have been interesting to explore the dynamics and perspectives of the two great Sicilian writers.

The rest of characters are a cliché of Italianism. It's amazing and almost embarrassing how Italians keep portraying themselves in this simplistic, folkloric manner. In this movie, it's a missed opportunity to dive into Pirandello's world.

All in all the movie is ok, it can be watched, but it could have been much better. But hej, it gives us a short performance by Luigi Lo Cascio, which is always a plus.

This should have been a mini-series, and it would have been great, because the casting is fantastic and the cinematography exquisite. Instead, it's a rushed movie, where characters behave oddly and do things out of the blue, one after the other, things keep happening all the time.

We don't understand these people, they have little depth, we don't see their evolution. Having read the book behind the movie, it's a pity that we don't get to this understanding, because these people suffer and learn and love and grow.

The novel is a declaration of principles, but the movie doesn't go beyond a gossip. Truly a pity. Still nice to watch, but a missed opportunity.