Venezia 81, Messina Denaro e i suoi ‘pizzini’, in ‘Iddu’ il racconto di una zona grigia

adnkronos

(Adnkronos) - Il film con Toni Servillo e Elio Germano

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00:00Loredana Enrico from Ennecronos.

00:02First of all, I wanted to ask you what fascinated you about the story of Matteo Messina De Naro

00:07and what was your main goal in approaching this story?

00:12What fascinated us about Matteo Messina De Naro emerged in the study,

00:17especially of these pizzini, thanks to which he interacted with the world

00:22of which he needed to carry out his latitude and his affairs.

00:26Because they were pizzini in which, beyond the lines dedicated to business,

00:31to the needs of the mafia, he let his personality emerge,

00:38often without filters.

00:41And so, studying this figure, emerged this sort of childish pathological Narcissus

00:48that attracted our attention a lot,

00:51also because he seemed the ideal mirror to let emerge the world

00:57that revolved around him dangerously.

01:00And through him, it was exactly this world that we wanted to put under the magnifying glass.

01:06We are Sicilians, we are Sicilian directors,

01:10and consequently we continue to question the very recent history of Sicily.

01:18It can be very uncomfortable,

01:21because these are issues that in some way we would like to forget.

01:28But the point is that the latitude of Matteo Messina De Naro,

01:33the long, too long latitude,

01:38is one of the black pages of the history of Italy

01:42and it is one of the many secrets, perhaps destined to remain so,

01:50such as the investigation of the Via d'Amelio massacre.

01:55These are those areas of absence of truth

02:02that, as Sicilians, hurt us.

02:07Look, we grew up as Sicilians, in Sicily in the 80s, 90s,

02:12the one that basically lived under the plume of the apogee of the Mafioso power,

02:19on that territory.

02:21Now, what attracts our attention is to see the anthropological, cultural and social consequences

02:28of that domain.

02:30And this history has allowed us to enter and try to bring to light

02:38what has become a society,

02:41portions of a society, large portions of a society.

02:44So what we have brought to light, we believe, is more than current.

02:50It is this sort of present in which a society continues to fade,

02:56in which there does not seem to be a way out that opens the possibility of a new future.

03:01We are absolutely children of that period.

03:05It is a Sicily in which forests burn,

03:11in which there is no water,

03:13in which we live submerged in the swamp,

03:15in which the roads are destroyed,

03:17in which the clientelism is still extraordinary.

03:21Look, I'll give you an example, because this is perhaps what Antonio will do.

03:24We often, let's say, the story of Sicily,

03:27which also tends for merciological reasons,

03:30is that of an extraordinary land kissed by the sun and inhabited by the gods.

03:35Why, let's say, has it been told to us to be in the past?

03:39Well, one of the gods, Proserpina,

03:42makes one of his most important things in the foundation of his myth

03:47in a Sicilian lake, which was the lake of Pergusa.

03:49Proserpina falls on the slopes of that lake there.

03:53Well, that lake no longer exists today,

03:56because over the years it has been cemented

03:58with impressive buildings,

04:01an impressive amount of buildings.

04:03The San Quinte has dried up

04:05and therefore, of course, how to say, that lake is no longer there.

04:08If the god was there, he ran away.

04:10But we continue to tell you about this wonder of Sicily.

04:13So be careful, because that wonder has not been there for a long time,

04:17for too long.

04:19To solve the problem of drought,

04:21I remember that we were small

04:24and we were already talking about desertification, drought.

04:29Millions of euros arrived in Sicily.

04:34Where did they end up?

04:36Unfortunately Sicily, the problems of Sicily,

04:40are also the mirror of a Sicily

04:45where this man has been a titan for 30 years

04:48and has made deals.

04:50We hope that the public,

04:52our goal is to try to arouse an interrogation,

04:56to ask questions,

04:59to question the meaning and mysteries of certain lives,

05:02of certain ways of living, of being,

05:04of understanding life and the relationship with others,

05:07to try to put them into discussion.

05:09This is important.

05:10But by falling in love with a story

05:12that can sometimes be grotesque but also funny.

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