Caterina in the City

Introduction

Cinema and movies are the reflections of society. The jaw- dropping scenes that people see in movies often actually happen in concrete work. However, the society is changing that the changes are exhibited in cinema. The change is getting faster every year, but it is yet slow. Ther change is the expectation of audience with cinema. These expectations are exerting pressure to continuous innovation and improvement in the cinema industry. Ther paper discusses the role necessary for the development and success of cinema.

There, in the Italian cinema of the nineties and two thousand, a tendency to propose simplifications borrowed from fiction and television lounges. From Muccino to Virzi, these are films that get good box office and submit to the spectators Sunday harmless pastimes, how to categorize things, people and attitudes according to the two basic categories of Italian society: right and left. Caterina in the city is to be counted among the cult of such neo-neo-realist. The main character Alice Teghil is absolute newcomer. Virzi chose after dozens of auditions conducted in many schools because it showed a "healthy disregard for the camera." The school that appears in the film is the high school in Rome Ennio Quirino Visconti, old school and the first public high school in the capital of Italy. Opened in 1871, is known to be frequented by young people of the so-called "Rome well." The film is full of cameos of celebrities, including Roberto Benigni, Michele Placido , Maurizio Costanzo and deputy Giovanna Melandri .In the soundtrack of the film is also the ' Hymn of Lazio Lazio fly Fly, composed and performed by singer-songwriter Roman Toni Malco (Stylus magazine, 2012).

Caterina in the City

Paolo Virzi's film, it is interesting for many reasons: the quality of the film, because it's about politics, but also because it marks a step forward in the process of muccinizzazione of Italian cinema. Muccino, in fact, is mentioned several times: just think of the father's frustrated with a book in the drawer, a character at ther point that the writers should be prevented with appropriate legislation, we think, still, to some frantic camera movements, which would depict the frenzy of modern life, hoping to dramatize nothing. More generally, Virzi Muccino seems to pick up the pretense of providing a sociological insight into the Italian society: the society that the film presents as apparently divided between left and right. The transition from a village, where everyone knows everyone and especially everyone knows everything about everyone and a big city, what's more the capital of Italy due to a strange form of disorientation in a middle school girl. Catherine does not have to deal simply with the sprawling city that seems to encompass everything and everyone, she is like totally invisible, she do not know where to lay the first glance, his look a bit 'stupid. The young girl is confronted with classmates, divided into two political factions opposite, each of which tries to pull the newcomer on their side, with ...