Monday, May 3, 2010

Broken Capillaries Under The Breast

Basilicata coast to coast, another trip to Lucca


Another trip, this time not mine, but the one described and reported in this beautiful film.
I I saw this afternoon and still taste good: as I watched him I wanted to leave immediately to the Basilicata, and that is indisputable about the photograph of the film. Mountains and valleys and villages perched on hills and winding roads and green faded near dry river, and lush forests of emerald green and cobalt blue of the sky, rivers and sea.
Four friends, who will add a woman, a journey of ten days, Basilicata travel from west to east - "Coast to coast, in fact - to get to Scanzano Jonico, where they will play and sing at a festival song. All five are in crisis with their lives, none of them have taken important decisions for themselves and for others, none of them has yet figured out what "will be great," and this trip will give them symbolically valuable suggestions.
The journey is more important than the destination itself, a journey made as slowly as possible: on foot, with a cart pulled by a horse on which they have placed the tools and luggage. Terzani wrote that he did not like air travel - which in spite of himself he had to do - because they played as short as possible and with a detachment from the soil that allows you to understand climate change, cultural, economic, human and earth. On a trip to "slow", like walking or - add personally - by bike, the scenery gradually deteriorate and open floor plan, allowing your state of mind to adapt to new scenarios with time-consuming. Allowing much thought, and giving resonance to pregnant silence of fertile ideas and intentions. This trip will pass through
Aliano, the border post of Carlo Levi, who, after the experience of exile would have expressed the desire to be buried there, transforming the original imposition in a subsequent free choice. Toast always Aliano, the health of Carlo Levi and Gian Maria Volonte, the actor who plays him. Will attend a road accident, paying a providential aid, meet new loves, and quarreled with each other, you will lose and will meet, will be welcomed in stone houses, and take important decisions, as in life, like in the real trip. Moreover
their Ithaca, Scanzano Jonico, is eighteen miles from Rocca Imperiale, where I was born, thus giving me an occasional value added to my movie.
A film that tells of people who love to tell and hear stories, where the lightness, the smile, humor, good music, solidarity and love are the main weapons used to address the fundamental questions of existence.

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