The cayman and other animals.

[matilda36]

There are going to be elections this week-end in Italy and I am not going to vote. Because there's simply no one of the 40 odd parties involved that I feel I can vote and be a at peace with myself.
For the last two months I had people trying to persuade me to change my mind, telling me that I had to ignore the stench and vote the less of two evils, but frankly I am tired of the Time warp that is Italian politics: "Just a jump to the left, just a jump to the right, let's do the time warp again"...

On Sunday I went to see "Il Caimano". It is a film by my favorite Italian director, Nanni Moretti. As all his films it works on a whole heap of different levels, including a strong j'accuse towards both the current premier and his opposition, morally none the better.

The film aim is to highlight the absence of morality in Italian politics and society, but because the film has come out during the Campaign, the film has been dismissed as a political attack against Berlusconi.

Well, I guess that the problem with making a film about morals in Italy is that most Italians would not recognise morals unless you were to make a reality show about them and even then there would probably need to be two people boinking each other to raise the audience...

This rant was brought up by a post on the Lost forum. Somebody was complaining that we miss two weeks of Lost because of the election, and this person was immediately attacked for her lack of any sense of civic duty and told that people like her should not be allowed to vote.

But the best bit was when somebody commented that there was only a worse crime that person could have committed: to post Spoilers.

There's a character in "Il caimano". A Polish film producer that says: "You Italians are so funny. All that you can talk about is Berlusconi and television" . He was so right it's not even funny...

Comments

[verito295.livejournal.com]

*huggles* There's only one solution darling. Get out of that mad house.. but then you might end up in a country like the US where the politicians are just as corrupt but people actually believe they are doing the best for their country and believe me that's just as frustrating... I still suggest the mass migration to either Australia or Canada (can we have some global warming so that Canada becomes more of a decent temperature thought? :D )

[joereaves.livejournal.com]

We are not going to Australia, everything there can kill you except some of the sheep.... I'd invite you all over here but at least Berlusconi doesn't try to pretend he does stuff for any reason other than to be powerful. Blair thinks he can hear the voice of God (and it's got a Texan drawl)!

[matilda36.livejournal.com]

I do think that one of the reasons why living over here has become unbearable are my 7 years in the Uk...god may talk to Blair, but Berlusconi believe he is god...

My first choices are Canada and New Zealand. This way I can always get a job as an extra in a Peter Jackson film and enjoy some of the finest rugby in the world...
*grins*
Or the Clan could always take over Norfolk, the Island first colonised by the Bounty mutiny...

[joereaves.livejournal.com]

Lucas and I agreed on New Zealand this morning :)

[matilda36.livejournal.com]

*Grins* Great minds think alike...

[ginny305.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Hope you survive the elections without going too crazy. Not voting is your decision, if you don't feel that there is a good choice for you, what right do other people have to say anything.

*rolls eyes at the Lost community*

[matilda36.livejournal.com]

5 days to go...and then they will start with the post-mortem.

But hopefully football will start getting first place in people's interests soon...

[crowgirl13.livejournal.com]

New Zealand sounds like a *lovely* choice. Let me know when I need to pack my bags.

*hugs* I know what you mean about politics. We just had an election for a new mayor here; I have never paid so much attention to a political race before. My preferred candidate, a Progressive, won. I'm very excited. That a Progressive won isn't that surprising- the Queen City had a socialist mayor at one point, after all. What really sucked is the Democratic candidate - who reminds me of a Darth Martha Stewart - has raised a big stink about the election results. Talk about a sore loser.

Anyhoo...good luck

[matilda36.livejournal.com]

I do agree with you on New Zealand. I am going to check the requirements to emigrate...

Glad to see American politics are as shitty as Italian ones...