The director diego santangelo speaks deep to the soul. A really different style from contemporary Italian movie genre shows 'a muzzarell as an outstanding experimental movie. Of course many callbacks of Italian NEOREALISM can be captivated through the still frames and the sequence plans but on the other hand the color grading and the lightning evokes an aesthetic which belongs to a Californian movie tradition made of block busters.
The story hit me because it has no given and finished message but it's an open path to deeper reflection about soul moving themes as childhood, violence, drug abuse, freedom, death, love. I felt involved as a viewer because the story avoids in every part to give unique answers so the suspence is quite intense and the emotion comes through the whole movie as a crescendo. Images, the few spoken words in dialect and the music, which surely is meant to become a masterpiece of Neapolitan music productions, cause and intense feeling of compassion for the main characters and so the vision is vibrant and really involving. I would definitely reccomend the movie especially to whom wishes to see an non conventional "turistic friendly fresco" of Italy (in either both ways with the pizza or Mafia cliches) but who really desires to get a neorealistic view on south Italian environment where beauty and fatalistic ugliness can coexist as in a Caravaggio's painting. Indeed Caravaggio is not mentioned accidentally as in many frames the light and the compositions reminds of his famous light technique.
