Saturno+Contro

[|Do you want to see the trailer?] "Saturno contro" is a dramatic movie directed by an Italian director, Ferzan Ozpetek, and acted by some famous Italian actors such as Stefano Accorsi, Margerita Buy and Isabella Ferrari. The film stroke me for its intensity and its hints to some important issues that involve the modern society: homosexual love, drug, euthanasia, and the "eternal" themes of betrayal and friendship. The movie narrates a short period in the lives of a group of friends who are from 30 to 40. The protagonists, who fully mirror the crisis that involves our selfish and individualistic society, and who are reluctantly becoming adult, feel the necessity to form a group of friends in order to feel less alone and lost. The group is composed by people which are very different one another: a girl who takes drugs, an homosexual couple, a man who betrays his wife, a depressed psychologist. In reality, the unity of the group is almost broken by different lifestyles and points of view. However, the friends are obliged to get closer by the death of the purest and naivest of them. This will be an occasion to reflect about the important values of mankind and its unsolvable problems. Although at its end the film hints at the positive feeling of union beyond death, it lets you the melancholic taste of the impotence of mankind against something which is more powerful than us.