Loro 1 and Loro 2, Paolo Sorrentino (dir.) (2018) Italy and France: Indigo Films
Piccole avventure romane (Fleeting Roman Adventures), Paolo Sorrentino (dir.) (2018) Italy: Collateral Films and Indigo Film.
Del desiderio e del godimento: viaggio al termine dell’ideologia ne La grande bellezza di Paolo Sorrentino, Guido Mori (2018) Milan: Mimesis, 195 pp., ISBN 978-8-85754-246-1, p/bk, €18.00
La maschera, il potere, la solitudine: il cinema di Paolo Sorrentino, Franco Vigni (2017) Firenze: Aska, 264 pp., ISBN 978-8-87542-177-9, p/bk, €20.00, ePUB, €17.00
The Young Sorrentino, Italo Moscati (2017) Rome: Castelvecchi Editore, 60 pp., ISBN 978-8-86944-927-7, p/bk, €7.50
DURING the twentieth century many theorists discussed the ruinous effects of modernity on individuals. Freud, Marx, Weber, Adorno, Horkeimer and Marcuse talked about the high cost of modern civilization because it entailed the loss of a sense of a universal meaning, alienation from others, from nature, and from the self, which lead to the "disenchantment of the world." Freud developed the idea of a loss of meaning, of estrangement, and focused on the pains and discontents of modern individuals. In 1990, Bryan Turner returned to the concept of malaise brought by modernity, and in his Theories of Modernity and Post-Modernity he argues:Modernization brings with it the erosion of meaning, the endless conflict of polytheistic values, and the threat of iron cage of bureaucracy. Rationalization makes the world orderly and reliable, but it cannot make the world meaningful (Turner 6).Considering this scenario, this paper depicts the creation and consequent destruction of two social Utopias designed to replace modern civilization and focuses on the effects of modernity filtered through two plays written in the second decade of the twentieth century: Luigi Pirandello's La Nuova Colonia 1 (1926) and Luigi Antonelli's L'Isola delle Scimmie 2 (1922). Even if the authors don't explicitly refer to this specific 251
This article examines Paolo Sorrentino's portrayal of moral degradation and pursuit of power in his twin biopics about Silvio Berlusconi: Loro 1 and Loro 2 (2018). It does so by performing a psychological reading of Sorrentino's representation of Berlusconi, as someone suffering from a personality disorder characterised by excessive power striving. It argues that this obsession with power also affects most of the films’ characters, who become obsessed with entering Berlusconi's inner circle – the pinnacle of wealth and power in a neoliberal society. In particular, it argues that their power striving circulates ‘virally’ in the film's narrative; the characters are willing to do anything to befriend their idol and attain absolute power. The ensuing analysis shows that Sorrentino's portrayal of Berlusconi – as the embodiment of a highly dysfunctional and obsessive, viral quest for power – comes to represent the deep pervasiveness of corruption, hedonism and commodification that marked the Second Republic.
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