This tragicomic film revolves around a gigantic family who lives in a miserable home in the center of Rome. Four generations of the same family doing everything (absolutely everything) in the same confined, filthy and abject space, without seeming to matter minimally. Obviously not a normal family, everyone is a bit crazy, obscene and totally ignore the most basic notions of hygiene. Privacy? Forget it. Even sex has an audience. The patriarch is a disgusting man who have won a little fortune by losing an eye in job, and his major concern in life is the integrity of his little fortune, that he hides, even (and mainly) from his own family until the day he takes a street whore to live with him in the squalor...
This it's the kind of grotesque movie that was a bit trendy during the late seventies and early eighties. In this case, it's a comedy that shows the inhuman way these people live and behave, their fears and their obsessions. It's a film about the absence of humanity that sometimes lives side by side with our great cities, and which we prefer to ignore. Those people do not just live like animals in the trash. They are human garbage, of a society that is uglier and crueler than they are. There they were born, there they will live their lives until they die and their bones will mix with the trash where they have always lived. Even the children end up being the target of a perversion that turns them into trash. And all this comically shown.
Interesting, philosophical but sad as much as it is comic, is a film to see but mainly to think and to make think.
This it's the kind of grotesque movie that was a bit trendy during the late seventies and early eighties. In this case, it's a comedy that shows the inhuman way these people live and behave, their fears and their obsessions. It's a film about the absence of humanity that sometimes lives side by side with our great cities, and which we prefer to ignore. Those people do not just live like animals in the trash. They are human garbage, of a society that is uglier and crueler than they are. There they were born, there they will live their lives until they die and their bones will mix with the trash where they have always lived. Even the children end up being the target of a perversion that turns them into trash. And all this comically shown.
Interesting, philosophical but sad as much as it is comic, is a film to see but mainly to think and to make think.