Totò che visse due volte

A spiritual and more humorous successor to films like One Man and His Pig by Zéno and Begotten by Merhige - a total desacralization and destruction of all fantasies about a higher existence of human life, concretized as religion as with Zéno, which grows here as well as there from the most animalistic foundation of a human being as an animal and is nothing more. Masturbation as a principle of life: the masturbation of a pubescent panicking in anticipation of sex with a woman and fantasizing about how great it will be,  just like adults always wait for the arrival of love, the messiah... The authors stretch this masturbation moment, turning adult actors into pubescent figures, dreaming of big breasts (maybe those from Fellini's Amarcord?)... Above all, through the absence of any real women (except for desexualized old women who, moreover, are also played by male actors during the film /perhaps without exception?/), they show how a woman and the Virgin Mary are only the product of a "pubescent" male brain. Unlike the two aforementioned films, which, even from the depths of their materialism, evoke a feeling of tragedy, horror, or sadness in the viewer about the human condition, "Totò..." (of course, the name of the famous Italian comedian) with its comedy prevents any feeling of nobility and is therefore much more unbearable than, for example, the unbearably brutal shots of a human reduced to a piece of meat in Begotten. However, the film does offer beautiful cinematography, it must be said - yes, that is also the only thing that remains when you discard the nonsense of all the content... (18.01.2017)