Yesterday, today, Tomorrow by Alberto Moravia another note on the same film is here http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/03/ieri-oggi-domani-aka-yesterday-today.html - 10 out of 10

 

Yesterday, today, Tomorrow by Alberto Moravia another note on the same film is here http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/03/ieri-oggi-domani-aka-yesterday-today.html

10 out of 10

 

 

This is a chef d’oeuvre, amusing, satirical, exuberant, dynamic, it is the quintessential entertainment that will keep you watching, with extraordinary characters, superb performances from Sophia Loren who is Adelina Sbaratti in the first of three parts, Marcelo Mastroiani, who is the husband, Carmine Sbaratti

 

What makes this so much more exhilarating in this realm is the fact that things look so familiar, to the point where we have a repeat of what is happening in the movie, only without all that charm, and decades later, because we have had that joke which said that the end of the world will come later for us, since we are fifty, or a one hundred years behind…that was in the communist days, maybe it is less now

Adelina and her spouse are in a perpetual conflict with the authorities, and we see them hiding the furniture and most (actually all) of what they have, every time the inspector comes, and then they enlist the community to bring those back, as soon as the peril of having them confiscated has passed…

 

They have very strong bonds (incidentally, the happiest people in the world do not have a big fortune, but they display strong connections with family and friends, research has showed) and when Adelina is finally imprisoned, they will have a tax introduced, so that they pay for her release from jail

This is a belated spoiler alert, warning, disclaimer – do not read this, it is not relevant, most likely it will veer off into whatever comes to mind, and you would be so much better informed and entertained if you go to the IMDB site, and click on the metascore link, where they give you extracts from the New York Times, Washington Post and other prestigious publications, which have looked at the film

 

The narrative has reminded me of our own practices and habits – very rich ghouls have broken the law, sometimes got indicted, but somehow managed to run away to all sorts of places – one went to…Costa Rica – and then while the law tried to get to them, the felonies would be deleted, because of the status limitations

At the pool downtown, we used to have one particular client, representative for a whole set, who had been the manager of Bancorex, the state bank that gave loans to private individuals, after the 1989 revolution – revolt that will come again in  focus, at the end of these lines, for I have now a fixed ending, boasting of my heroics

 

So this ruffian used his position of power, giving away the money of the, well, people, to gangsters and crooks (think Trump) knowing full well that they will never return a penny (maybe a few pennies will see the coffers of the bank) and then he will have a cut of this simple scheme of distributing millions

At another level, there is this neighbor I have, with a pool, luxury SUV and all, whose family had been in business as…state employees, and therefore, the only way to get all these assists would be for them to save all the paychecks for about…six hundred years, those working in the public sector have to publish income and property

 

Another case comes from the same sauna of the Downtown club, where this doctor is the head of the union at a major hospital, a man of property, he has land and houses in expensive neighborhoods, and he is a Putin admirer, or as stupid as they get, trying to explain to him what the deal is, he just does not get it

You could get Chili Palmer from the miraculous Get Shorty http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/04/get-shorty-by-elmore-leonard-aka.html to explain it to him – Chili Palmer has this fabulous line ‘I am the one telling you the way it is’- and he would still embrace the Butcher from the Kremlin, because he is vile

 

We tried telling him ‘look, you say you are upset that realtors call your cellular, but Putin, when he sends his tanks, they do not call on the phone, they just crash with the tanks through your wall, and ask the keys to all the other properties, how is it possible you do not get that’, but this he may see, it is just that he is god damn selfish

All these Inglorious Bastards care for is themselves, and they admire the likes of Putin and Trump because they identify with the beasts, they would like to have used the same ruthlessness to get the same riches, albeit Trump claims he is so wealthy, when in fact he is not, now for Putin, he may well be the richest human

 

Trump is in fact on trial for the frauds he committed, and that is such a disgusting and catastrophic narrative, because if this idiot becomes the leader of the free world, again, next year, then we are fucked, he would throw Ukraine down the drain, and give the rest of this art of Europe to the would be czar in the same package

Dumb as he is, he has taken to saying that ‘Hezbollah is very smart’, just like he had showed the same awe for other dictators and monsters, and this is because he is angry with Benjamin Netanyahu http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-netanyahus-account-of-minor-and.html who has called Biden to congratulate him for the victory in the elections that the sicko Trump) keeps claiming that he won…

 

 

Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world   – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

From To The Heritage:

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

‚parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’

“the Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special. Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”