Ohjaus:
Daniele VicariKuvaus:
Gherardo GossiSävellys:
Teho TeardoNäyttelijät:
Claudio Santamaria, Jennifer Ulrich, Elio Germano, Ralph Amoussou, Davide Iacopini, Monica Barladeanu, Mattia Sbragia, Fabrizio Rongione (lisää)Juonikuvaukset(1)
In 2001, on the last day of the G8 summit in Genoa, just before midnight, more than 300 police officers stormed the Diaz school, looking for black bloc demonstrators. Inside the school were 90 activists, mostly students from around Europe along with a handful of foreign journalists, preparing to bunk down for the night on the school’s floors. As the police burst in, the young demonstrators raised their hands to surrender. Undeterred and unmoved, the officers unleashed a calculated frenzy of violence, beating both young and old, male and female indiscriminately. Diaz: Don’t Clean Up This Blood reconstructs the events of those terrible days from the viewpoints of the police, the protesters, the victims and the journalists who were caught up in the tragedy to analyse how frustration can explode into raw, uncontrollable violence. Vicari’s visceral, dynamic filmmaking drops the viewer into the dark heart of politics and reminds you through the inclusion of original footage taken at the scene that this may be a movie but it is not fiction. (Universal Pictures UK)
(lisää)Arvostelut (2)
Violence against (often) innocent people turned into violence against innocent viewers. Vicario filmed an offensive and simple pamphlet which, instead of materiality and the ability to capture the absurdity of the situation, chooses clumsy blackmail, which it excuses through documentary footage. Ordinary exploitation - a film that only plays on the first signal because it has no resources to do more. The worst type of film that turns me from a supporter of an idea into a cynic. P. S. Filmed with the support of BNP Paribas? Oh, the paradoxes of capitalism.
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The film seems somewhat straightforward in how it exploits the viewer, but on the other hand, it tries - and I think quite faithfully - to capture what happens when you give people power and tell them they can do whatever they want. They will end up abusing it as well as not getting punished for it. The film isn't great, but the reminder that something like this can happen is important to me.
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