Saturday, December 19, 2009

Dominoes Instructions

The Consequences of Love (P. Sorrentino)


"The worst thing that can happen to a man who spends much time alone, is not to have imagination.'s Life, already itself boring and repetitive, it becomes a spectacle in fatal lack of imagination "

In life there are two categories of people: the first has a minimal number of them very small, niche, almost non-existent, I like to call" of LEONI . Beings are energetic, vital, that even if confines them in confined spaces, cramped, unhealthy air, they will rebel more fiercely than those gloomy prisons. They always want new spaces, emotions / experiences, face the world with force, with a special light in your eyes, eat it in bites voracious and insatiable. To the second belong to everyone else, a huge swarm, "the most , flat, ordinary lives and colorless. Needless to disturb fate, think about their self-closing in those cages. On the other hand is the most we can aspire, as with one heart and one mind rough poor.
between these two types of human beings there is a clear difference: the former have a vivid imagination, and even if life / destiny decides to lock them up one day in jail, put their obstacles of any kind, will always retain the character to the imagination, to dream, to want everything, everything to be desired, thirst / hunger for life, the latter, though without any restraint of or chain, have a compartment as a habitat close and low, in which lives a frivolous, empty and insipid.
Titta di Girolamo looks around and observes the comings and goings of guests, and draws a conclusion: the lions are a dying breed.
Almost all of those men and women who stay there, taking tea, conversing among themselves, are superficial, vapid, completely devoid of imagination, happiness, people are materials, silly, boring. Yes, well, terribly boring is the right word.
There is no life, no biting, no wit, those tenants are so sadly gray limited. Their greatest condemnation is just that: to be limited, individuals exceed their "cells" can not go, I'm stuck and unable to break away, can not fly.
Titta is locked up in there, imprisoned, forced - by external forces incontestable - to make a monotonous life, stupid, usually spent on a bench where it can observe all, and not a day that does not ask whether himself: "Why, because people have everything, it is free to do everything, and is limited? How do they feel satisfied in life so vacuous? A breathing space so tight, do not suffocate? Do not feel the need of fresh air, fresh, healthy and vibrant? That mean. "Titta
suffers from insomnia, and maybe it is the desire to live, to discover, to feel strong emotions to prevent the rest. He is not sleeping enough soul locked up within four walls? So, that body immured in a diving suit, because it prevents sleep eager to take flight.
people instead blissfully sleeping, lounging in mediocrity into standby mode every part of him that has emotional capacities. And there is good content with. So survives does not live mica.
But in those same days and dull during those afternoons spent to imagine and desire a jolt of life, a trace of trepidation, a flicker of emotion, in itself precluded in the gloomy hall, Titta with its enormous surprise and delight, he discovers that besides him, there are other beings belonging to the three endangered species: Sofia and former owners of : forced by a bankruptcy to settle for a room that once belonged to them. The couple
intrigues him, pinch his imagination to the point of auscultation, with the help of a stethoscope placed near the door to his room, the conversations between the two spouses. Dialogues will be incredible, a devastating force. These elderly couple, now on the threshold of their lives, they have a fighting spirit indescribable, a boyish enthusiasm, an amazing love for each other, a pile of immense joy, happiness, joy, certainly not boring and it fits in that life locked in a coffin . In this world poor and small, trivial and deanimato, those two characters clash:
"- I can not wait for death in the hotel, I want to do something spectacular, whatever. My life, my life has been spectacular.
- but the show is over, and you must resign Carlo. We're old, die in here.
If you die first, I will follow soon after the heartbreak ... and vice versa. "


Conversations like this one, bursting with passion and transport, will awaken the heart, drowsy and sedated from those dark days, leaden and dull. Titta Without realizing it had become more like : Surface without verve and dreadfully unhappy, ready to be thrown into limbo their funeral. But enough gray, just sadness, just to survive, he goes, c'aveva thought a million times, he had desired, wanted, but not had never had the courage, the fact is that now goes, he gets up from that sofa and sit down in front of Sofia:
"Maybe sit on this bench is the most dangerous thing I've done in my entire life "
His heart began to gallop faster, increasingly, more and more, his eyes shine, the soul, sleepy and numb, dead. Titta back to life, that mixture of affection, attraction, tenderness - hidden for a long time - trying to Sofia, finally his heart defibrillators, that revives the sleeping lion. Titta But do not worry, you had just forgotten the consequences of love
... What I did not forget our friend, is all they have done for him senile those in love, only those aged newlyweds age. This is the reason for that gift end, here is because of that gift generous: Titta, grateful, beaming and happy to be born again witnessing the poetic life of those eternal love, sacrifice himself by releasing those lovely couple. Present them with the key out of that sad hotel, as if to say " There they are, you see them? They are your model. Watch and imitate, watch and imitate "

Directed perfect for framing
Toni Servillo
fantastic music


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