Sexocracy: The man of Bunga Bunga

A fair documentary about a historical moment in Italy, when Prime Minister Berlusconi was ruling every aspect of the Italian life, owning all major private tv stations. He was able to turn show girls into ministers. Socially and sociologically interesting.

As I said in my other reviews of this director's film, I got interested, somehow, in his work. I couldn't find this documentary free no where but since in iTunes the rental was so cheap I decided to throw some dime into the box. Well it's a 2011 year documentary about Italian chronicles that now are just history, but what is interesting in this doc is that it's like a still frame of an era. The era of former Italian prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (that has much in common with Trump) and his extravagant way of leading his country between funny jokes and Bunga Bunga orgies. It's engaging and somehow controversial mostly now after the Weinstein scandal. Yes because one of the thesis of this work is: "Women are not victims of men. They are the real masters of many games". Not from the narrator, nor the director, but from the mouth of the agent that used to supply escorts to the Prime Minister. "There are people who would do anything just to have a few seconds of celebrity". says Lele Mora. And having been a top agent I guess we can give him some credit.

I was able to watch this documentary even though it is indeed hard to find it. But I was lucky. Lucky because thanks to that I know a little more about Italians, their customs, their dreams, their misery. I love that country the way i love mine. And I was very proud to see that in this good feature there is a point of view of my country-fellow. But the Philippines, when it comes to the dreams of teens and youth is not much different. Also here people are really crazy for showbiz and would do anything to enter this world....The point of view of the young and pretty Filipina who works in Italy is indeed conservative but to be respected. Here politicians are not better than in Italy. There are many "Silvio Berlusconi" here dating young women sometimes younger than 18....but they are just more careful doing this...Everywhere is just the same when it comes to sex. The documentary in engaging, ironic, entertaining. Good job. It is a pity that there's no English version but only subtitles...

This film, shot before Lele Mora ended up in jail for fraudulent bankruptcy, may be considered the completion of Videocracy. But is not based only on the point of view of the former agent of the VIP, but also on th point of view of those who are not interested in joining the showbiz: Lanie, the beautiful Filipino girl whose essential values are the love for her family and her job. The film proceeds in parallel between the memories of Mora and the few windows of images from which Lanie comments about the fever for appearance of young Italians, and criticizes the commodification of the female body. One may ask himself who is the author of this commodification, the one to blame. One of the theses of the documentary is simple: if the woman would not make her body available, this could not certainly get commodified. In the film could not miss Silvio Berlusconi that so much affected Lele Mora's career . That national Silvio considered the greatest architect of the invasion of the places of power by showgirls and starlets. Young women hungry for power and success bred in the 'stable' Lele Mora, like the famous Ruby Rubacuori. In Sexocracy Lele Mora reiterates his innocence regarding all the accusations made to him from various fronts, but the direction of Soriquez, does not seem to support his thesis, with a montage that sometimes underlines his contradictions. "The truth is always a little real and a bit fake" Mora says at the end of the film. Thesis quite philosophical if we review the theories of philosophers-mathematicians. Only that makes you smile told by him. Sexocracy, Cratia of Sex, the most powerful energy of the human being, and like all things can be used for good or for evil.

This interesting documentary is a snapshot of how the 20 years of Berlusconi ruling were like in Italy, as far as the links between politics and showbiz were concerned. The film flows fast and nicely without any dull moment. It is not preachy, doesn't side neither with the left wing nor with the right wing and even though it is based on a long interview of Lele Mora where he absolves himself from many accusations (exploitation of prostitution, fraudulent bankruptcy), the images show otherwise, making me suspect that the director really doubts that Lele Mora was innocent, like was proved a few years later when Lele Mora and Silvio Berlusconi were found guilty. Lovely the final sequence were the major characters of this documentary eat in their respective residences: Lele Mora and Ruby banqueting with a loaded table with many guests and the Filipina in her humble house feeding her son, reminding that we are all the same while satisfying our basic human needs.