To live with wolves.
Aliche Rorwacher skillfully plays with time, perfectly without science-like things like “time machine” or “time loops”. Lost among the mountains and valleys, the village of Inviolata, inhabited by peasants belonging to the Marquise, recalls its entry into the twentieth century except with electric light bulbs. Young Marquis Tancredi de Luna brings with him a cassette player, the sounds of disco from which take the viewer for decades to come. And then the game eventually turns into a dance around the simple-minded Lazarus of Inviolata, who is ready to help everyone, whether it is not too hard-working fellow villagers, spoiled Tancredi or marauders, ineptly pretending to be loaders. Working, thinking about the future rest, and having the opportunity not to work, think about how to prolong this state: “I exploit them”, says the Marquis, looking at Lazarus. This is a chain reaction that cannot be stopped. And here are valuable minutes and hours of rest add up in the years that devour you. “Give them freedom – and they realize that they are slaves locked in their sufferings” – for the aristocrat, freedom is painful, for the time of freedom-idleness becomes the worst enemy that sucks your life. By placing herself at the beginning of the chain of exploitation, the Marquis receives only dubious consolation in the form of power over the peasants, who call her a poisonous viper behind their eyes.
Lazarus not only does not refuse to help, he also watches you, trying to understand what you need - he offers you his meager lunch, volunteered to make coffee, carry heavy things, without any face-to-face: sometimes the Marquis has to refuse to do nothing together to go to work.
Fleeing from freedom and idleness, Lazarus escapes from the power of time, where your companions will be the freest and noblest of animals. The wolf, busy with his cares, even a distant howl can bring terror, but he is ready to meekly accept bread from the hands of the saint. Antonia kneels before her true freedom. The freedom that induces the poor to make an expensive gift for the rich or inspires the idea to engage simply in the hard work of agriculture for themselves (the slaves of time are not capable of such decisions), and in others causes the same horror, making a noble boy see the accuser of his unauthorized slavery.
9 out of 10
Original