Please do not call it Clockwork Orange!
Picture published on La Repubblica - Palermo
satirist and illustrator, painter and citizen of Palermo, Gianni Allegra is one of the most enlightened Sicilian artists. He has worked with the Sicilians, Time, Events, Linus, Unity, Tango, Heart Comix, and since 1999, with its irreverent cartoons in the pages of the Republic, told us about a society that seems to have lost, now permanently every crumb of originality. In his brilliant career, he has more than 5,000 colored sides of the Sicilian Mafia and crime; Today, in a social climate that seems to want to remember, minute by minute, that violence exists and persists in homes and streets, on sidewalks and in the sacristy, in the best families and in buses, on TV and in the institutions, we ask him because of so much violence, and if there is a recipe that can destroy it.
Fragala's attack, the head of kid in Campagna, the threats to regional councilors, the attack controllers on the bus, rapes, acts of crime, what is all this violence? We are going through definitely a period of great social difficulties, but this is barbarism spread throughout the boot. Palermo is certainly a case resonance here because it is easier for the association lobbies in crime, but I think if we talk about violence today, Palermo is simply a global city, the cradle of a violent movie, like every other corner of the western world. But please do not call it Clockwork Orange.
In what sense? I often read magazines and newspapers, the word violence associated with the finest films in cinema history. In Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, my favorite movie, there's violence, but it is only a tool to talk about free will, which is the real theme of the film. Something quite different. So it only creates confusion.
We return to violence in Sicily. No wonder then? No, today I could not imagine Sicily differently. But I admit that it is very difficult to identify the limits and boundaries. Everything is everything and its opposite. The Mafia itself has abandoned his old tools, took off the caps wrong and Kalashnikovs and wore civilian clothes and white collar, became educated, non-violent and diplomatic, but when it does not find satisfaction in the new instruments, returns to old messages, the old stereotypes.
It refers to threats and headed kid? Yes, but it seems really anachronistic to speak of such things in 2010. It seems to evoke atmospheres 50 years ago. And to say that over the years Orlandiani breathed a certain intellectual well-being. So at least "who could be eating crumbs," today there is no food. There is only pity. And the violence is inversely proportional to the culture. But now in Sicily there is no room for true culture, literature, art, cinema ... There homologous to television violence. What else can we expect from such a status? The same is true in the language. Until 40 years ago the offense was the indiscriminate use of foul language. Today maverick is someone who uses language clean and neat. What solution sees
horizon? We can only rely on the younger generation, but even there we must engage. We are the models for our children. Education, culture, art and music are our lifelines. And an example of how Barack Obama teaches us that our destiny depends on our choices. Change is difficult in some contexts, but it is always possible. Holy free will ...
She is an artist, usually to represent the company through cartoons and drawings, if it were to represent the violence of these days, what to draw? Recently I published a cartoon on the Republic of violence. It was a quote from the film Shadows Red directed by John Ford. A team of Indians who attacked a bus. I abandoned the usual Mafia mice.