Which means: Young Montalbano: The man who followed funerals. Another tv movie with protagonist young Salvo Montalbano (Michele Riondino) of the Sicilian police. I like these episodes enough, but I'm not fond of how he talks, sort of whispering, and I don't know if he speaks like that because he wrongly believes it makes more 'intense' or if his voice comes out that way in his attempts to have a Sicilian accents.
The plot has many pieces of different stories : the one that gives the title to the episode is the murder of a man, a poor man who had been attending every funeral in town for years now, and for that many people liked him; the rich wife of a man has disappeared; Livia comes to Sicilia to surprise Salvo, but he starts getting suspicious and worries she might have another man.
Fazio father makes a short appearance, which was nice. :-)
A sick man had lately been told he would have very little to live, and he hated the sight of the poor man because he imagined him attending his own funeral and could not stand the idea. He talked to him at first, then he killed him, so he would not be able to be there. When finally Montalbano went to him, the selfish and self-centered man confessed his hatred and his murder, then of course killed himself. This was the best solution for a movie: what could they do, arrest him? For what, to have him die in a cell while waiting for the trial? It's Italy, after all, it's not like he would have had a trial the next week...
The woman that had disappeared was finally found dead. She had been the one with the money, not the husband, so he had her killed to take it all.
Obviously it turns out that Livia was not cheating on him, but yes, she had been lying because she had been offered a good job and didn't know what to do: the job would force her to move to Canada, but at the end of the movie she declares she will not go, because she wants to stay here with him, and on the heat of the moment, while she's on the bus about to leave, he tells her they should get married and of course she says yes, only Salvo has no real intention of getting married, he likes his life as it is, he doesn't want a wife, so something will happen in the next episode for sure.
There's also an attempt on Salvo's life, or so everybody thought. He was in a car with his deputy Mimì Augello when a motorbike came next to it and start shooting them. It turns out that they really intended to kill Mimì, because he had been found out with a man's wife, and he had took it badly, of course.
It was a nice episode, but the best episodes were the first ones they made years ago. These are just nice, still nice enough to wait and watch the next episodes, of course. :-)
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