In a season during which other pictures are quite meaningful for the formal and substantial rereading of the past (I'm thinking on a side at “Life is beautiful “, by Benigni, involving the matter about how to talk about holocaust, and “Save soldier Ryan”, or even the “The thin red line “ concerning the scores to settle about war on the other side), it is silhouetted a pictures as the American “Public enemy”. A film masterpiece? No, because the full inventive Tony Scott's direction and the deadly starring of Gene Hackman and Will Smith do not rescue it from the little confusion of the conceptual performance and the action one, not always well fused and without boredom. And so? Why do I use 

the term 'exceptional' for these two hours, spent in movies by many Italians and surely destined to the television and home-video success? Let's start with data. According to a report at the “Antimafia” by Forza Italia's deputy Tiziana Maiolo, the telephone interceptions in the United States have been 1.154 in 1994, 1.058 in 1995, 1.149 in 1996. The Scott's picture plot bases over the suggest of the possibility to control everyone's privacy, thanks to the sophisticated satellite systems already allowing the power owners to spy anyone, everywhere and anyhow. But if you read this fact on a newspaper, it does not upset you at all, or at least it does not reach you inside. The phenomenal setting at the park, where the protagonist is intercepted by a net of the most recent generation microphones, and listened at and framed so to make you shudder can make instead as the sensational logos of what is waiting us.According to the Maiolo's report - in Italy, telephone and environment interceptions between 1992 and 1997 has tripled: from the 15.360 decrees issued by judges to sanction them in the years of the “ outbreak “ of Mani Pulite, we have arrived to 44.176 interceptions in 1995. Nowadays they could be nearly 100.000. Straddling February and March of the last year, without excessive sensation, it was discussed in Parliament a law about this matter, naturally and unfortunately “instrumental” for the political fronts.The opposition, read it as Berlusconi, harps on the string of the illiberality of this widened judicial measures, while parts of the majority aim more to the citizen's safeguard, to his security just thanks to this sort of “interceptive radial shield “ against the organized crime. First observation: so, marvellous paradox, there's an American picture talking more about us than about the same Americans? Furthermore: would not this matter be worthy of a real debate, since its seriousness, just linked to the picture, since nothing but the mentioned picture makes oneself clear and gets closer the problem? Nothing, instead. And then: if, beyond the parties' fronts and the instrumental use of the event interceptions business, one gets to deeper positions, one finds himself schematizing, as it happened for the “support of civil rights “ and “justicialism “ regarding any aspect of Mani Pulite and the relationship between policy and justice, between politics and judges, between who 'freedom' comes first for and who 'justice' comes first for. There are two visions of world I mentioned at the beginning of this article. If you think 'freedom' comes first, you refer to an unreliable idea of man who is neither good nor bad. In the other case, if you select among properly people and evil people, you rely on being defended against the 'bad', throughout all means of “justice”. There are grounds the two requirements must not only clash but also confront and meet: the right to privacy, but also the “normal life “ must be warranted to mere right. I don't rely on controls and mainly I don't over controllers, but I don't either rely on those who shout against controls because they have cupboards plenty of skeletons. They are both dangerous “Public Enemies “.

 

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