One day particular

One day particular is a film italo - Canadian carried out by Ettore Scola and left in 1977.

Synopsis

In full Italian fascistic period, we attend the meeting of two beings that all seems to separate. The country is at its 16th year of Fascism and saw a turning with an escape ahead: German alliance , racial laws, declaration of war (historical reference to the May 16th 1938). With Rome, the May 8th 1938, Hitler meets Mussolini. All the Romans deserted their dwellings to go to attend the ceremony. In a large building, Antonietta, as a good mother of large family (in accordance with the endoctrination mussolinien: a husband all that there is moreover machist and six children), is forced to remain at the house to deal with the pieces of housework whereas it would have gone well to see the Duce like everyone. The chance will put it in liaison with a esseulé man whom she saw in an apartment on other side of the court. It is about Gabriele, a homosexual intellectual who, for this reason, was excluded from the national radio where he was presenter and is threatened of deportation. Antonietta and Gabriele, on bottom of broadcast retransmission of the military parade emanating from in the caretaker, initially will clash ideologically before being recognized in their commune and deep loneliness for finally living intense emotions. At the conclusion of this particular day, each one again will be found imprisoned: the police force comes to stop Gabriele while Antonietta, once the returned family, will be subjected, as usual, with the marital duty.

Comment

The buildings are practically empty in this singular day, Antonietta many mother and Gabriele, homosexual, are recluse.

Nonrepresentative of this news Italy goes from there, they do not have the right to acclaim the Masters of the moment.

These a few hours will allow these two extreme cases curiously associated by their differences to communicate.

The distance from incomprehension little by little will decrease. This mother carrying “sow” initially reticent with the speech except standard of this man driven back following her nonconformity will let herself conquer and call in question her statute of under woman, creature subjected to the desires of her husband nerve of the war of a mode regarding the man as lord and Master.

Its sight drops, Antonietta is old before the age, the exhausting daily spots are not carrying any recognition on behalf of a mode qualifying only the women of organizations of reproductions and machines to be vacuum-cleaned.

Antonietta is harassed by the many domestic daily spots to carry out: beds to be made, detergents, meal which it is necessary to prepare for this herd which will return famished without consideration any on the states hearts of a woman exhausted by the domestic labor.

Gabriele by its remarks convainquant, Antonietta is grayed is reconsidered then yields to this new passion but this one retracts.

One day particular profits from a color amputated to the maximum, with the limit of the black and white.

The image blafarde is the tarnished face of Antonietta, a glance dug, an exceptional metamorphosis accepted by a large actress losing of her superb to incarnate a faded woman, destroyed by theories nondurable imbeciles in the long run.

Antonietta, in slow moral and physical destruction, finds the one moment space a glimmer of hope conveyed by a courageous man worthy in acceptance of a state different from normality.

The crushing state the marginal ones will off-set this “homosexual parasite” of company.

Resigned Antonietta will continue its long anguish.

Symbolic system

The symbolic systems objects of film reflect the situation of the fascistic Italy :
  • Dress of hostess of Antonietta, her slippers, its bottoms worn.
  • the gloss standard lamp
  • the radio: its obsession
  • Image of Gabriele which contradicts the sound of the radio
  • a space closed (which sets up the 3 units of the traditional theater)
  • black Tenue of the caretaker, in mourning of her husband, ideology Nazi
  • Tableaux, data base children, newspapers: various objects of Propaganda of the mode

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