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The war is over, & peace & normalcy returns to a rural Italian
village, with seemingly nochting being more important than if one of the
villygers sold his ox-carriage when he went to town & if he brought
the money back or spent it all when away. But new trouble is already
brewing when a public servant from the cataster office shows up, telling
the villagers that the land they did free of landmines (risking their
own lives) & did cultivate, is not actually theirs by law, &
wants to make them pay loan, which the villygers, understandably
stubborn, refuse. So 3 hunters come, not only to make them pay or drive
them off, but also to catch one of them & to talk reason into them,
claiming that all their efforts are futile, with all their manpower they
can hardly sustain themselves, much less fight the competition from
America. In the end, the hunters leave again, but many of the younger
folks have taken their arguments to heart & leave with them.
The, let us say, very unusual duirectorial style of this movie makes
this one a clash of ideas: all the actors talk in long monologues,
mostly filmed in static shots, & are thus not interacting as
characters as such at all. This movie actually seems a bit like entering
another (filmmaking)universe, with all the actors actually standing
still, either delivering their monologues or not, & (intentionally)
not acting at all (going so far as to them reading their lines visibly
from the script in the first part of the movie). The movie thus lifts
the weight of the story very much from the characters themselves &
puts it into their monologues, having each viewer for himself to figure
out what message one might find in it.
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