Luciano owns a booth in the fish market in Naples and rounds his revenues with a suspect scheme of phony kitchen robots ordering and re-selling. He has a typically assertive Italian wife, three typically sticky and noisy Italian kids and a bunch of family and neighbors which are as typical as Fellini characters can be. His lodging in the decrypt area of Naples is kind of a set of the 'Leopard' abandoned for 150 years. His contact with the big world are the reality shows, his only apparent chance of breaking the walls of his limited life is getting on the set of the 'Big Brother' show. A dream which he will eventually achieve at the cost of his own sanity.
Aniello Arena is the name of the actor who plays Luciano and he does a fine job describing the descent of the character into insanity, his increasing obsession that all his life has become a reality show. Do you remember Truman Show starring Jim Carrey? The hero there thought that he was living a normal life and in reality all was a TV show. Here it's quite the opposite. Director Matteo Garrone does a fine cinematography job, and his sets look at many moments like descending from Fellini or Visconti. The ending may ask some questions about reality, but actually we have descended into the i-reality of such shows. I liked it.
Aniello Arena is the name of the actor who plays Luciano and he does a fine job describing the descent of the character into insanity, his increasing obsession that all his life has become a reality show. Do you remember Truman Show starring Jim Carrey? The hero there thought that he was living a normal life and in reality all was a TV show. Here it's quite the opposite. Director Matteo Garrone does a fine cinematography job, and his sets look at many moments like descending from Fellini or Visconti. The ending may ask some questions about reality, but actually we have descended into the i-reality of such shows. I liked it.