Post by sgev1977 on Dec 10, 2020 0:54:48 GMT
I finished the two seasons. It's very good but also a little soap opera-ish and I don't think they managed the narration in a good way. There are long shots with the main actress seemingly not knowing what to do meanwhile her older version "narrates" her thoughts.
On the positive side, it's fascinating because even with the romanticism and the preciousness of the images, it's very cruel and most characters are very nasty. I couldn't stop watching it because it. There is a scene in the second episode in which the main character is a little girl who wants to continue with her studies but the family is very poor and the screaming mother wants the little girl to "help" her with the house work because she is a girls and girls doesn't go to the school! The more quiet father doesn't agree: his daughter is smart and she should go to the school. We conclude that the mother is the bad retrograde parent and the father is the good progressive one, right? Next, the parents announce to the little girl that they discussed the issue and they decided that they will pay for the course she needs to be accepted in the new school and, I was horrified, the mother has a bruised eye! He beat her! The scene was so unexpected, uncomfortable and cruel that it really took me off guard. In another scene the other protagonist humiliates the young woman version of the studious girl because she is single and doesn't have a man on her side, like her, even a bad also wife beater husband like hers is preferred (according to her!) than being a wallflower like her friend! It's insane, of course, but in their time and place that sounds truthful and it's very painful for the protagonist (again, in their context) so this is a feminist series because it's about women struggling for being educated but it's not a simple feel good story of powerful girls with 21th century mentality in the first part of the 20th century living in an extremely sordid neighborhood in south Italy. They are presented as girls from their times with a lot of weaknesses and doubts and that's why it seemed so original and adult compared to most English speaking productions.
On the positive side, it's fascinating because even with the romanticism and the preciousness of the images, it's very cruel and most characters are very nasty. I couldn't stop watching it because it. There is a scene in the second episode in which the main character is a little girl who wants to continue with her studies but the family is very poor and the screaming mother wants the little girl to "help" her with the house work because she is a girls and girls doesn't go to the school! The more quiet father doesn't agree: his daughter is smart and she should go to the school. We conclude that the mother is the bad retrograde parent and the father is the good progressive one, right? Next, the parents announce to the little girl that they discussed the issue and they decided that they will pay for the course she needs to be accepted in the new school and, I was horrified, the mother has a bruised eye! He beat her! The scene was so unexpected, uncomfortable and cruel that it really took me off guard. In another scene the other protagonist humiliates the young woman version of the studious girl because she is single and doesn't have a man on her side, like her, even a bad also wife beater husband like hers is preferred (according to her!) than being a wallflower like her friend! It's insane, of course, but in their time and place that sounds truthful and it's very painful for the protagonist (again, in their context) so this is a feminist series because it's about women struggling for being educated but it's not a simple feel good story of powerful girls with 21th century mentality in the first part of the 20th century living in an extremely sordid neighborhood in south Italy. They are presented as girls from their times with a lot of weaknesses and doubts and that's why it seemed so original and adult compared to most English speaking productions.