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Is she a siren or a myth?
Tale
Parthenope is a woman named after her city. In Greek myth, Parthenope is a siren who kills herself after failing to charm Odysseus.
In the film, Parthenope is the embodiment of the city of Naples
The tide brought her body to the place where Castel dell’Ovo is now built, and for this she gave the name of the city that would later become Naples, Naples. Heat Written by Peter Gregson Starring Peter Gregson, Warren Zielinski, Magdalena Filipczak, Laurie Anderson, Ashok Kluda.
Has love failed as a means of survival; when is it time to go; what becomes of personal freedom when it is locked in a cage?
What I love about Sorrentino is that his films are like a book of a thousand existential questions that collide like electrons in the atoms of our consciousness, trying to find the integrity of our own selves. Parthenope is exactly the kind of film that makes us ask so many questions: what do we think when our gaze is raised; what is it to not use the beauty you are gifted with, and what is the price you pay for it; what is the power of love when we are young; How do you bear the burden of being smarter than others and does that make you abnormal or just a sad and misunderstood person?
And as we see, there are many of them in Naples
Yet there are questions to which we are not ready to know the answers, because we have not gone through suffering, and that alone is the key to consciousness. Parthenope is a sad film in which personal freedom is forced to be locked up in order to survive and not to be killed by a tyrannical, backward society whose main task is to condemn everyone with the iron hammer of its prejudices and traditions.
A small hell in a seeming paradise where not everyone survives
To understand what the end result is for a minority whose emotional intelligence does not match the social prejudices, watch Parthenope and suffer! The main thing is not to judge anyone so as not to be judged!
