Manfred-7 Reviews

Tian can di que (1979)

We're not different

[10/10 · 4 May 2005]

I didn't mean to watch this movie when my friends of "SunFlower Tavern Association" (which gathers all the people like we are) came up with it, but then we were all very happy. Finally we've got to watch a movie where WE get our revenge against "normal" people. While watching this movie we felt like our armless condition is not a handicap, but actually a weapon to fight against a common enemy, which is intolerance. Two crippled guys, enemies at the very beginning of the story, find a way to combat the society (represented by the evil master who put them into their condition) joining their forces and martial abilities. Joe Law leaves us in a very opened ending because there will be always a new enemy to challenge with and we'll have to join our ideals to keep overcoming those racists. I'd like the reality was like this movie, all the people could live together to build a better world, and we wouldn't be that ashamed only because Mother-Nature (the evil master) gave us this "different gift".

Il prefetto di ferro (1977)

A very rare masterpiece

[7/10 · 24 November 2001]

It's difficult to find this movie but it's the only one that talk about the fight of the new italian kingdom against the "briganti" (street criminals) at the end of 19° century.

Pasquale Squitieri used a little ancient town to realize a very difficult movie about a strange period of italian history.