Gentle, tender, beautiful

Margarete 2022-02-25 08:02:03

A humanist masterpiece. The film is certainly against the dehumanizing aspects of corporate life, but one hesitates to call it a "protest" movie, like some of Chaplin's repertoire. There is no expressed anger, but what I see as a reasonable, controlled indignation , made poignant by sympathy and sensibility.

Olmi's films never disappoint. His technical background gives him fine eyes for the subtlety of light and shadow in black/white cinematography. His two best-known works, "Il Posto" and "Il Fidanzati", are the epitomes of B/W accomplishment.

There is a sweet, quiet lyricism in Olmi that you don't find in other Italian Greats, not even in de Sica. Maybe that is why, when the film ends, we are left to care and worry about the heroes and heroines, far beyond their existence in the plot. For instance, I keep thinking of the boy clerk, of what kind of man he'll grow up as, and wondering what kind of a bride he'll eventually take. No other director has this power to make the cast feel like family to the audience. But isn't that the magic of the film?

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Extended Reading
  • Robert 2022-02-25 08:02:03

    The anticipation of love before work, the loneliness of brokenhearted after work, and after a night of indulgence at the dance party, it still stretches to the endless repetitive mechanical sound in the end credits day and night (the lights are turned on during the day). So real. // first olmi

  • Tyrese 2022-02-25 08:02:03

    I don't know where I got hit, but it's a smart and smooth image. The male protagonist's small face and big eyes are pierced in the collar of the windbreaker, and his eyes are like a little lamb who is just entering the society, especially at the end of the table. The qualifications are conspicuous. It seems that I have seen most of my life / the scene where the girl said that the fast food restaurant smelled very heavy and sprayed perfume on the male protagonist is reproduced

Il Posto quotes

  • Job Interviewer: Do you mind eating away from home?

    Domenico Cantoni: No.

    Job Interviewer: Does the future seem hopeless to you?

    Domenico Cantoni: No.

    Job Interviewer: Do you suffer from frequent itching?

    Domenico Cantoni: No.

    Job Interviewer: Did you wet the bed between the ages of 8 and 14?

    Domenico Cantoni: No.

    Job Interviewer: Has excessive drunkenness ever caused you to lose your job?

    Domenico Cantoni: No.

    Job Interviewer: Does the opposite sex repulse you?

    Domenico Cantoni: No.

    Job Interviewer: Do you often drink to forget your troubles?

    Domenico Cantoni: Sometimes.

    Job Interviewer: Not sometimes. Yes or no.

    Domenico Cantoni: No.

  • Sartori: Your best bet is to keep to yourself. In this life, we should trust everyone, except those who have two nostrils.