Italiano medio

Italiano medio
Directed by Maccio Capatonda
Produced by Enrico Venti
Written by Maccio Capatonda
Luigi Luciano
Starring Maccio Capatonda
Music by Maccio Capatonda
Distributed by Medusa Film & Lotus Production
Release date
  • 29 January 2015 (2015-01-29) (Italy)
Running time
 100 minutes
Country Italy
Language Italian

Italiano medio (lit. "Average Italian Man") is a 2015 Italian comedy film written, directed and starred by Maccio Capatonda.[1][2]

Cast

Plot

Giulio Verme is protesting with an association against the abolition of a biopark, wanted to build a residential neighborhood designed by the famous businessman Giancarlo Cartelloni. Born by two parenting parents who never considered him, Giulio has been starting to feel a deep hatred for TV and everything connected with it, becoming an environmentalist, an animalist, a vegan, and against any kind of waste. Growing is no longer able to endure the family situation and decides to leave home. He attends the faculty of environmental science at the university, where he graduates with full marks, and there he knows Franca, who thinks of him as he is on the environment, with whom he trusts and goes to coexist.

The years go by, but Giulio is always very concerned about the future of humanity and the environment, and the hesitation of the people around him, seeking unsuccessfully to raise awareness among the people around him. One evening, after a quarrel with Franca, he comes out of the house and is approached by the leader of the Salmon Non-Residential Nonprofit Association, but after hearing the good intentions of the association, he thinks it is all worthless and leaves to lose. When he returned home, left alone because Franca left for two weeks to volunteer, he heard the bell ring, opened and found his schoolmate Alfonso, who, in order to try to get him, makes him try a pill Which temporarily reduces the use of your brain from normal 20% to 2%.

From this moment on, Giulio changes radically: he only thinks of having fun, women, his physical appearance, sex, and celebrity. They have sex with their neighbors Sharon and along with Alfonzo enters an exclusive nightclub for former footballer Ruud Gullit. There he lends the bomber's Hummer and destroys him against a bio Parco tree. With the intention of not stopping in his torments, after the accident, he steals an excavator and vandalizes the park by writing in the "Scopare" ground (his motto since he changed his personality). The next day, the effect of the pill disappeared, Giulio returned to herself. After being upset about everything she did under the pill, she read the news that the bio Parco, thanks to its own vandalism act, has taken on media relevance, pushing many people to care about it, and convinced that 'The only way to raise public awareness is to act as an ecoterrorist.

He then decides to involve the activists of "The Salmon" in his project, and together they plan the pollution of the aqueduct so as to make people understand the value of the water. Then contact Alfonzo to have other pills giving him the unconsciousness needed to commit this act. Having polluted the aqueduct by dropping in a large amount of waste, it is no longer able to do without taking the pills continuously and, under their influence, marries Sharon's neighbor and completely overthrows his life, continuing to behave "average Italian". Meanwhile, he is noticed by the talent scouts of the most followed reality show talent called "Master VIP," which invite him to become a competitor. Giulio takes part in and arrives in the final. Meanwhile, Franca comes home, who learns the news and does not understand what can happen to her boyfriend. Sharon explains all the recent events and both, along with Alfonzo, go to the finale of "Master VIP".

The final proof of reality is close all the bridges with the past and the people connected to it, to become a true VIP; Giulio should sign divorce with Sharon and send Alfonzo and his girlfriend Franca to that country. Initially, she does what she is asked for, but Franca reveals that after talking to Alfonso she discovered that pills really did not exist and were only the result of Giulio's imagination as a justification for her most trivial behavior, Who had always repressed but strongly desired. At that time, Giulio, for a moment, comes back to himself and makes the audience an uncompromising speech, in which sometimes his old personality and sometimes the new one prevail. To Cartelloni, judge of reality, the sincerity of his speech very much like him and declares him the winner of "Master VIP". Suddenly Giulio remembers his parenting parents, starts talking to them through the TV and he seems to see them in the camera, then runs to the goal as if to meet them and slammed against them, fainting. He falls into a coma, is taken to the hospital, and while all around his bed await awakening, a psychologist explains that Giulio's mind at this time is in the process of the duality of personality, due to years of repression of certain behaviors and To his hatred for all the conventions. Giulio comes out of a coma and understands that life can never be anything white or black, but compromises are often a necessity to live in Italy. It then comes to mind in a way to save the bio Parco, exploiting its recent popularity and TV, which now sees it as a tool that can also be useful for making positive propaganda: proposes to Cartelloni a new reality where competitors will be engaged in Rebuild the park, armed with hoe and seed.

References

  1. ↑ Arianna Finos (4 February 2015). "Super Maccio: "Comico e cinico, ecco perché trionfa il mio italiano medio"". La Repubblica. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  2. ↑ Maurizio Di Fazio (21 January 2015). "Maccio Capatonda sbarca al cinema e racconta l'Italiano medio'". L'espresso. Retrieved 18 June 2015.


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