1. Like a short story, there are no adjectives, only verbs and nouns.
2. Seamless integration of fictional and non-fictional footage, a real sense of war.
3. English, Italian, the gap and intercommunication between the two languages.
4. The gist of the six stories: Everyone thinks they are right.
5. Story Summary: 1. Sicily. It is wrong to think of Italian women as enemies. 2. Naples. We Americans are rich and kind. Americans blow up their children's parents. 3. Rome. You girls have all changed. Innocent girls fend off hunger by themselves, they are good girls. 4. Florence. run wild. Uffizi, sculpture, ruins. Hear the death of a lover in the mouth of the dying. 5. Gothic line. Five hundred years of monastery. American priest who distributes Hershey's chocolates and cans, different denominations. Everyone thinks they are on the right path. The (self-considered) good mind must be at peace. 6. Northern Lake District. Italian partisans + American soldiers + British Air Force, killed, pushed into the water. The Germans say that building a millennium regime must destroy everything first. Winter of 1944. The war ended the following spring.
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