WRIT 109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Edwin Cerio, Massimo Troisi, Table Football
16 Jan 2018
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Massimo troisi - heart problems; died in surgery. This film is set in 1951 when neruda was in exile from chile, for political reasons, and lived on the island of capri in the villa owned by the italian historian edwin cerio. Opening establishes poverty (no fish) and a wish to leave by mario. America is the land of opportunity to them. Neruda is brought into the film through newsreel. Note that mario leans forward in interest when he hears that neruda"s poetry draws women. This is foreshadowing in terms of the film"s plot. It also points toward further references to that aspect of neruda"s life and poetry. We get the two sides of neruda very quickly in the newsreel as well as in the talk between mario and his boss in the post office, and in mario"s interest in the fact most of. First poem mario reads in the cafe is walking around barbershop metaphor.
