Sexocracy: The man of Bunga Bunga

Well paced and enjoyable this doc opens a window on interesting cultural aspects of the Berlusconi era. Socially and anthropologically relevant, it shows how Silvio Berlusconi gave form and directed the tastes, ideas and believes of the Italians through the shows he aired from the early '80 on his three private networks, shows that were crafted by Lele Mora, his long time friend, the popular show business manager who later became his Bunga Bunga "partner in crime".

If you are into Italian culture and politics this is a must see.

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.

Throughout the documentary we understand how the showbiz works in Italy. The connection between showbiz and politics (Silvio Berlusconi), and how mad are Italian for success in the showbiz. There are shocking images of young girls which humiliate themselves to get little coverage from C rated broadcasting stations. There are former showgirl that have become ministers knowing nothing of politics. But, fortunately, there's also a part of youth (mostly immigrants) who still believes in good values, like the love for the family. This movie is a MUST SEE. In the movie also Bill Clinton forgiveness message to the nation for the scandals he was involved in. This make understand the seriousness of Americans comparing to Italians. Berlusconi has not the guts to say sorry for what he did. It is impressive how a talent agent like Lele Mora could have been in touch with head of state like Clinton, Gorbachev, etc..

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.

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.