Interesting film, but I don't like the main character at all, he's spoiled, idle, totally self-absorbed, not really caring about anything else. I don't dislike him either, because he's not a bad guy, in his own way he does care for his loved ones, but it's really hard to stand him. He should treasure the friends he's got.
Vincenzo lives with his mother and his sister’s family. He has no job but doesn’t really want to find one. His sister buys the food, his mother takes care of his clothes. He only helps a little around the house when he is asked, but still complains that they asked him instead of his brother Alfredo, when he’s home. Vincenzo is also jealous of his brother, because he made a career for himself as a comedian. He has a friend, Tonino, who keeps crying because his girlfriend of three years left him for someone else, but Vincenzo is rather annoyed by all his whining. He listens because Tonino insists he needs to talk, but is not very understanding, and even tells him that maybe it was his fault because he was too attentive, oppressive, and maybe ugly too.
When he meets Anna, a friend of his sister, he likes her immediately, and they start going out with friends, but they quickly become a couple. Anna had a relationship who ended badly, and she’s looking for some tenderness.
Vincenzo has the keys to the apartment above his own, belonging to an old professor (we see Vincenzo bringing him his meal, entering with his key), and he takes Anna there when he knows the professor is out, so they can make love (without asking the old man's permission, btw).
When Anna tells him she loves him, he says he’s glad, and with a little prompting he admits ‘me too’.
He never tells her anything nice, never starts anything; he shows a total lack of empathy when a crying Tonino speaks of killing himself. When Tonino speaks of getting it over with, that one day as a lion is better than a hundred as a sheep, Vincenzo tells him to live 50 years as a teddy bear, not really believing he would do it, and as a way to shut him up (fai 50 giorni da orsacchiotto)
Vincenzo never stays long in bed after love, he always gets up to make coffee or to listen to the radio or whatever, and when she speaks to him about her doubts he is sort of annoyed.
Eventually she leaves him, convinced he would not even care.
Tonino is not sad anymore, he finally found another girl that he likes, and he tries to console Vincenzo but Vincenzo is rather… he says that their situations are completely different, because it was clear why Tonino had been dumped, because he was ugly and sent her an ugly picture of himself, while there is no known reason why Anna left him. Even adds that Tonino’s situation was better because there was the other guy, the Swedish guy, so he knew there was a reason, she left him for that Swedish guy, and he at least knew that he was the second person in the world she liked best…
Tonino is a good, understanding friend and speaks to Anna to tell her that Vincenzo feels awful and they should talk, and so she goes to him to tell him she had even thought of going back to her job in Perugia, and he asks her not to go, to stay with him.
The end.
Vincenzo - Massimo Troisi
Anna - Giuliana De Sio
Tonino - Lello Arena
The film was written and directed by Troisi.
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