I love both the films of Paolo Sorrentino and actor Tony Servillo, Sorrentino also loves him and often shoots, that’s in the movie “Loro” (“They”), 2018, he plays the main role – Silvio Berlusconi. From the very first shots, the film reminded me of “The Great Beauty”, and the appearance finally in the frame (far from the very beginning
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I love both the films of Paolo Sorrentino and actor Tony Servillo, Sorrentino also loves him and often shoots, that’s in the movie “Loro” (“They”), 2018, he plays the main role – Silvio Berlusconi. From the very first shots, the film reminded me of “The Great Beauty”, and the appearance finally in the frame (far from the very beginning of the film) Servillo at first made me remember his really wonderful film about Andreotti - "Amazing", but then gradually comes a slight disappointment. The film is not easy to watch, although visually it is good, the reason for this is not only the large timekeeping (more than two and a half hours), but, first of all, as it seems to me, the script is not very clear, some scenes look just like some illustrations, not events. The director, of course, is free to present his characters, as he pleases, but then he slightly overwisted and became a little too fond of sex antourage, places almost with musical elements, even the main character sang (as I found out, in his youth Berlusconi worked as a singer on a cruise ship and even composed songs himself). Quite a significant part of the film is devoted to the actions of the pimp Sergio Morra, who dreamed of meeting Berlusconi to break into the European Parliament for some reason, the rest of the characters are shown quite fragmentary. Observing what is happening, you inevitably begin to think about how the author actually relates to his hero, although satire is definitely present, first of all, in the licked almost even more than in the real Berlusconi, appearance, but despite the fact that even the main character and others broadcast to us about the attitude to him, in which there are both admiration and hostility, this is not always confirmed by what is happening on the screen. There we see, of course, a rich, youthful man, with some strange entertainments (not only girls, in entertainment with whom there is more contemplation, but also a carousel, a volcano, the eruption of which in the form of small puff we see at the end, which is kind of not for grandchildren, one of whom we glimpse, but for himself) a man, with hints of a dark past and connections with the mafia, but there is nothing particularly monstrous in it. A happy party at his villa turns boredom. And his life seems to be falling apart, too. I even had the idea that this was his life, as if he had told it himself. With some regret, I can state that the film did not make a strong impression on me, but a pity.
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