Un ragazzo di Calabria
Dad wants his 13-year-old son to work harder and smarter than he himself did; thus justifying the beatings and scoldings given the boy. The boy was also forced to work with some rope manufacturers who worked him like a dog.
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"To write that "un ragazzo di Calabria " is a success story is to diminish the director ,the great Comencini ,the poet of childhood , still unsurpassed in this field in Europa. It's a long and winding road to the race in Rome ; the boy's father wants his son to study , the only way for him to escape from a poor job like his.The boy runs barefeet ,perhaps not to wear his shoes out .Although clever ,Mimi is despised at school by a teacher whose pedagogy leaves a lot to be desired :reading a pupil's essay to make the class laugh at him is a humiliation hard to bear ;the w..."
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Dad wants his 13-year-old son to work harder and smarter than he himself did; thus justifying the beatings and scoldings given the boy. The boy was also forced to work with some rope manufacturers who worked him like a dog.