IT 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Italian Literature, Proletariat, Masaccio
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In the end when ettore dies, (camera shot is from the feet as if he was on the cross and then goes to the head). The beginning they are getting married and there is a table and they are eating; bride and groom at the centre which is referencing to di vinci"s last supper. Fiat 500 --> means of transportation has changed (bicycle, vespa, fiat 500). Pasolini"s film is one of the most harsh commentary on consumer society. Pasolini can only be read in consumer society. He said that this type of society is another expression of fascism. Examine a central period of italian culture --> imp shifts cultural, economic, social shifts. Italian state is centralized which means that it is a state that does not give power to the regional. Rome becomes a strong centre of economic political power and this is not distributed equally from the years of reconstruction to the hard year, now is the economic miracle.
