La Rabbia
1963 · 104 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 555 VOTES · DIR. Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giovannino Guareschi
Overview
Documentary footage (from the 1950s) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existential question, Why are our lives characterized by discontent, anguish, and fear? The film is in two completely separate parts, and the directors of these respective sections, left-wing Pier Paolo Pasolini and conservative Giovanni Guareschi, offer the viewer contrasting analyses of and prescriptions for modern society. Part I, by Pasolini, is a denunciation of the offenses of Western culture, particularly those against colonized Africa. It is at the same time a chronicle of the liberation and independence of the former African colonies, portraying these peoples as the new protagonists of the world stage, holding up Marxism as their ""salvation"", and suggesting that their ""innocent ferocity"" will be the new religion of the era. Guareschi's part, by contrast, constitutes a defense of Western civilization and a word of hope, couched in traditional Christian terms, for man's future.
Dialogue Timeline — 690 lines
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00:00:08 A film in two parts
00:03:30 you don't cry "Long live liberty"!
00:05:26 our old parents, identical figures
00:08:08 of labour and errors.
00:10:07 This means fighting
00:12:10 is the colour of mankind.
00:14:27 first Amalfi, then Genua
00:16:03 It is with an astonishing honesty
00:18:21 Elisabeth answers in the affirmative.
00:20:38 then our history will end.
00:22:26 their mistakes, their hopes.
00:24:30 "The spirit is the heir to the peasant world
00:26:22 "the factory where I work
00:28:15 And I want to listen to the voice of culture
00:29:53 where the bodies are convulsed like the cadavers of Buchenwald
00:31:34 he arms himself, prepares himself
00:33:38 Ah, France, the pest!
00:36:31 on the analphabetic people of Arabia
00:38:28 you wore your beauty with humility.
00:40:24 silly like antiquity, cruel like the future
00:42:53 the reason of all wars
00:44:58 death's fatality.
00:48:10 I come down to earth
00:50:42 END OF PART I BY PIER PAOLO PASOLINI