(Adnkronos) - Il film con Toni Servillo e Elio Germano
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00:00Loredana Enrico from Ennecronos.
00:02First of all, I wanted to ask you what fascinated you about the story of Matteo Messina De Naro
00:07and what was your main goal in approaching this story?
00:12What fascinated us about Matteo Messina De Naro emerged in the study,
00:17especially of these pizzini, thanks to which he interacted with the world
00:22of which he needed to carry out his latitude and his affairs.
00:26Because they were pizzini in which, beyond the lines dedicated to business,
00:31to the needs of the mafia, he let his personality emerge,
00:38often without filters.
00:41And so, studying this figure, emerged this sort of childish pathological Narcissus
00:48that attracted our attention a lot,
00:51also because he seemed the ideal mirror to let emerge the world
00:57that revolved around him dangerously.
01:00And through him, it was exactly this world that we wanted to put under the magnifying glass.
01:06We are Sicilians, we are Sicilian directors,
01:10and consequently we continue to question the very recent history of Sicily.
01:18It can be very uncomfortable,
01:21because these are issues that in some way we would like to forget.
01:28But the point is that the latitude of Matteo Messina De Naro,
01:33the long, too long latitude,
01:38is one of the black pages of the history of Italy
01:42and it is one of the many secrets, perhaps destined to remain so,
01:50such as the investigation of the Via d'Amelio massacre.
01:55These are those areas of absence of truth
02:02that, as Sicilians, hurt us.
02:07Look, we grew up as Sicilians, in Sicily in the 80s, 90s,
02:12the one that basically lived under the plume of the apogee of the Mafioso power,
02:19on that territory.
02:21Now, what attracts our attention is to see the anthropological, cultural and social consequences
02:28of that domain.
02:30And this history has allowed us to enter and try to bring to light
02:38what has become a society,
02:41portions of a society, large portions of a society.
02:44So what we have brought to light, we believe, is more than current.
02:50It is this sort of present in which a society continues to fade,
02:56in which there does not seem to be a way out that opens the possibility of a new future.
03:01We are absolutely children of that period.
03:05It is a Sicily in which forests burn,
03:11in which there is no water,
03:13in which we live submerged in the swamp,
03:15in which the roads are destroyed,
03:17in which the clientelism is still extraordinary.
03:21Look, I'll give you an example, because this is perhaps what Antonio will do.
03:24We often, let's say, the story of Sicily,
03:27which also tends for merciological reasons,
03:30is that of an extraordinary land kissed by the sun and inhabited by the gods.
03:35Why, let's say, has it been told to us to be in the past?
03:39Well, one of the gods, Proserpina,
03:42makes one of his most important things in the foundation of his myth
03:47in a Sicilian lake, which was the lake of Pergusa.
03:49Proserpina falls on the slopes of that lake there.
03:53Well, that lake no longer exists today,
03:56because over the years it has been cemented
03:58with impressive buildings,
04:01an impressive amount of buildings.
04:03The San Quinte has dried up
04:05and therefore, of course, how to say, that lake is no longer there.
04:08If the god was there, he ran away.
04:10But we continue to tell you about this wonder of Sicily.
04:13So be careful, because that wonder has not been there for a long time,
04:17for too long.
04:19To solve the problem of drought,
04:21I remember that we were small
04:24and we were already talking about desertification, drought.
04:29Millions of euros arrived in Sicily.
04:34Where did they end up?
04:36Unfortunately Sicily, the problems of Sicily,
04:40are also the mirror of a Sicily
04:45where this man has been a titan for 30 years
04:48and has made deals.
04:50We hope that the public,
04:52our goal is to try to arouse an interrogation,
04:56to ask questions,
04:59to question the meaning and mysteries of certain lives,
05:02of certain ways of living, of being,
05:04of understanding life and the relationship with others,
05:07to try to put them into discussion.
05:09This is important.
05:10But by falling in love with a story
05:12that can sometimes be grotesque but also funny.