WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY SICILIA News Journal Update - (en) Italy, Sicilia Libertaria, Nov. 23: Sciruccazzu - The little mouse by Paola Cortellesi (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 We went to the cinema attracted by the great things said about this

first film as director by the talented Paola Cortellesi "There's Still
Tomorrow". And indeed 99.9% of the film did not fall short of
expectations. The story is that of a family with the dominant and
violent male, the slave and abused wife who tries to defend herself by
cultivating a well-simulated revenge. We are in a Rome still wounded by
the war and occupied by the marines, on the eve of 2 June 1946, when
women were allowed to vote in political elections for the first time.
---- So what does our Paola do? After having scripted a mountain of
violence against women and having prepared the spectator for the
imminent act of rupture of the protagonist (Paola herself), here she
gives birth to the little mouse: the protagonist-victim does not abandon
her husband; she does not run away with her true love; she doesn't
choose freedom over oppression, but she... goes to vote! And this is
presented to us with tear-jerking emphasis as the liberating act of this
unfortunate woman among many.

As if 80 years of violence against women hadn't passed; of Christian
Democracy followed by a worse Forza Italia; of dominant clericalism; of
abortion and other achievements blocked by deliberately ambiguous laws;
of record feminicides; of wars and civilian victims in which Italy
participates with militaristic pride. As if we didn't have a
reactionary, patriarchal and clerical-fascist fascist-League government.

Have women liberated themselves with the right to vote? At the beginning
of the 20th century, Emma Goldman warned the suffragettes not to fall
into the electoral trap: the men failed, why should the women succeed?
Isn't it still a question of continuing to delegate one's life to a
government?

That's why the film was such a disappointment; even stronger because it
spreads the electoralist illusion at the moment of maximum decline of
the democratic voting practice and of an increasingly shameful violent
practice, physical and moral, towards women and every gender that does
not conform to the catho-patriarchal doctrine.

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