My blog reviews movies as political, historical or social commentary with intentional disregard for their artistic or cinematic value. One foe of American political scientists and economists is that they ignore movies as sources to inform them on changes in American culture, view exoticism as a hallmark of "foreigness" and, at the same time, impart American values and judgment to foreign movies.
Saturday, April 15, 2017
Paolo Sorrentino. The Young Pope.
Superb series by Paolo Sorrentino got high marks on rottentomatoes.com but not nearly as high as usual political correctness movies. In the first series, there were no cliches at all. Our nurse Ratched forbade us to see the last series and the people told me that they were going from impeccable to just weird. Overall low marks, probably, happened because of the already mentioned inability of American critics' milieu to analyze imperfect heroes and plots without clear delineation of good and evil. They simply cannot imagine good people without character or much personality, villains without obvious vulnerabilities and trauma, but above all, that the most people are neither saints not hobs but somewhere in between. They also could not digest, for instance, that a conniving, spiteful and liberal Cardinal Caltanissetta is genuinely concerned about well-being of the Catholic Church, while a serious and conservative Cardinal Spencer is a power-hungry alcoholic. My only regret is that Torrentino killed Cardinal Dussolier and exiled Diane Keaton too early in the series to sustain the tension of the plot.
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ReplyDeleteReinvigorated corporate censorship in the US prohibited the series from coming into the second season. So my laments about premature termination of the characters of Diana Keaton and Scott Shepherd were never justified.
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