Curious Eyes

• Mio fratelli e figlio unico; again an italian movie about the struggle between brothers, right and left and the holy family? Yes, again a italian movie about the struggle between brothers, right and left and the holy family; from the screenwriters of Il Meglio Gioventu and with that movie i was even crying in the theater (and not one time );
• TBS, because of the cardboard screenplay;

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I almost regret already that i have choosen to write this blog in a not native language. I am looking for the exact words to describe my very mixed feelings about this movie. But i will try.TBS is the dutch system for  detaining criminal people with a psychiatric disease, in forensic centres for what in the old days used to be named “psychopats” . It is in The Netherlands a controversial system, mostly because of the escape with new crimes of some detainees in the last years. Many people in the Netherlands think about it as a very “soft” system, though in reality it can be very cruel, especially when prisoners are goiing to a longstay regime, in practice most times for the rest of their lives. Exactly this theme is the subject of the movie of Pieter Kuipers and i was very curious about this movie. But at the end of the movie I was very disappointed, even angry, because i found the movie completely implausible. In scenario, in facts and also in characters. Now i can’t find the exact words why, so that i will do later, without beiing a spoiler of the content of this movie.  

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